Word: malta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coeur de Lion captured the island of Cyprus in the Twelfth Century. The Knights of St. John had no guns nor explosives when they built a castled city on the Isle of Rhodes. Airplanes were undreamed-of when they buried their loot in the caverns on the island of Malta. But then as now, these islands were steppingstones toward the treasures of Egypt and the Holy land. Men's weapons have changed but the routes of conquest remain...
...with bomber attacks on Crete and the German submarine base at Eleusis near Athens. At the same time the British launched land and air attacks along the western route to Egypt. They shelled the Martüla airdrome in Libya while over the bomb-pocked British island base of Malta, R.A.F. fighters and anti-aircraft guns downed twelve German bombers and two Messerschmitt fighters in 24 hours. A report from London that Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, who directed the devastation of Warsaw and Coventry, was now in Sicily hinted ominously that dawn-to-dusk raids were a prelude...
...week began, British submarines claimed to have sunk eleven Axis ships attempting to by-pass Malta with reinforcements for Libya. The Italian Navy claimed that a major sea battle was raging, with a Malta-bound convoy as the prize...
Killed in Action. James Dinsmore Tew Jr., 28, son of the retired president of B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co.; over Malta with the R.A.F...
Elimination of Malta as a war factor would remove a big stumbling o'clock from the path of any Axis forces looking to the East--Egypt, the Suez Canal, Turkey and beyond--for new conquests...