Word: malta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bomb-blasted Malta last week, beefy, pink-faced Lieut. Gen. Sir William George Shedden ("Old Dob Dob") Dobbie, gave his farewell message to the people. The 63-year-old Governor and Commander in Chief of Malta, who had survived nearly 2,300 Axis air attacks, was going home to England for a rest...
...British Admiralty announced last week that a British submarine in the Mediterranean had sunk "four more heavily laden Axis supply ships." The British admitted some months ago that for every ship which was sunk, at least one got through. And since Malta has been pounded daily by Axis bombers, the proportion is probably larger. The sinking of four ships suggested that the Axis is determined to keep Field Marshal Erwin Rommel up to attack strength, even though North Africa is already beginning to swelter in its unbearable summer heat...
...convinced that 40% of Germany's fighter strength was on the Western Front. Said a well-informed R.A.F.man last week: "The number of fighters against us on the Western Front today is more than it was two or three months ago. We still retain against ourselves and Malta a greater number of fighters-both single and twin-engined-than are distributed on the whole Russian Front...
...Mediterranean, the Nazis slammed at Malta and the Italians made bumble-footed assaults on British convoys. Objects: 1) to clear the Mediterranean for the movement of Axis troops; 2) to knock out British supply...
...Malta's present ruler is pious, beefy, frumpy Lieut. General Sir William George Shedden Dobbie, 63, whose troops call him "Old Dob Dob" and who does not drink, smoke or swear. He regards this war as another crusade against infidels, and he hates the Nazi nihilists for making him fight on Sundays. Any other day of the week he is glad to oblige. In 1918 he observed that, if anyone ever asked him what he did in World War I, he could say that he stopped it, for it was he, as a member of Field Marshal Sir Douglas...