Word: maddalena
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taken from Rome to Ponza . . . to the island of Maddalena . . . to the Gran Sasso [in the Apennines 75 miles northeast of Rome] according to a plan which provided for my being handed over to the enemy...
...Allied invasion of Italy. It is a big parallelogram of more than 9,000 square miles, nine-tenths rugged mountains, with so few harbors and such bad communications that its defense rests on isolated strong points. Cagliari is one of the Mediterranean's major naval bases, La Maddalena a minor one. There are several important airfields, such as Elmas and Monserrato, near these bases...
...strategic air force, operating against enemy supply lines, continued to bomb ports both on the sending and receiving ends of Axis supply, but they also bombed and claimed to have put out of action two Italian cruisers, the Trieste and Gorizia, as they sat in La Maddalena harbor, Sardinia...