Word: malta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strongly defended shores of Greece and Yugoslavia on the Adriatic. The Germans have another strong point at Rhodes, lesser forces in the other Italian Dodecanese and the Greek islands just off Turkey. But the Mediterranean is not yet an Axis sea. The British and the Maltese still hold Malta (see cover); they still have Cyprus, Syria, Palestine and Egypt at one end of the Mediterranean, Gibraltar at the other. British convoys, British and U.S. warships and planes still dispute with the Axis the mastery of the greatest inland...
...clear sky, spun a trail of smoke and plummeted into the Mediterranean. Away swooped its killer, Pilot Frederick George Beurling, of Canada. The name of the Axis pilot was not recorded. But he had this distinction: he was the 1,000th to fly to his fall over Malta...
...defenders of Malta chalked up his number last week as they fought off the latest all-out Axis onslaught. For five days swarms of Axis planes had swept over from neighboring Sicily, only 60 miles away. Somewhere in the Mediterranean, during the distraction, an Axis convoy had probably pushed through to North Africa with supplies badly needed by Rommel. But the Axis had paid heavily for the transports' passage. In the five days of almost ceaseless combat, Malta's ack-ack guns and the R.A.F.'s Spitfires had destroyed more than 100 Axis aircraft. This week Malta...
...Malta is worth the price for strategic reasons. Sixty miles from Sicily, the island is a constant menace to Axis supply routes in the Mediterranean. She is a base for British submarines. She is a potential base for an attack on southern Europe. And deeper than practical reasons, she has become Britain's symbol of resistance, as Stalingrad and Bataan became symbols of valor to Britain's allies...
...Axis sent about 250 bombers and fighters against Malta in renewed mass attacks but the British announced that damage was slight and that only one Spitfire fighter plane was lost. Raids on Malta, which sits athwart the Axis supply line to North Africa, usually precede large scale convey operations...