Word: maltas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Malta and the Middle East Air Command in Egypt and Libya sent bombers against southern Italy and over Sicily's eastern coast, where the Siculi, the Phoenicians and the Greeks began the island's long cycle of invasion. American Fortresses, medium bombers, fighter-bombers and night-flying British Wellingtons attacked from Tunisia (but not as heavily as some U.S. headlines screamed). Compared with the climactic air offensive on Pantelleria, the week, in fact, was one of lull and preparation...
...submission was "worth trying." Soberer heads recognized this as a victory of air power, but a victory won under laboratory conditions. The island fell because it was possible to isolate it completely from supporting bases on the mainland. This was the decisive factor, not the sheer weight of bombs. Malta in three years of war had taken many times the weight of bombs dropped on the Italian outposts; it still stood because its supply lines were never severed...
Then he nosed around a rear R.A.F. base, finally wangled a free bomber ride to Malta, then to Gibraltar. On the way back to Egypt, he saw the bombing of Navarino Bay. The British P.R.O.s were furious, forbade him to ride in combat planes...
...weight dropped on Sicily had increased 15 times; that on Sardinia, 20 times. The total (5,500 tons on all targets in May) was still 1,000 tons less than the weight the Luftwaffe dropped on Malta in the one month of April last year, but reconnaissance reports testified to the damaging effects on the ports, shipping, railways, air defenses, munitions dumps, oil stores of southern Italy and the islands. Photographs of Pantelleria's single airdrome, for instance, showed black smoke from oil fires, white bursts on the landing field near the entrance to underground hangars...
...Spain, Italy, Vatican City, French Morocco, Algeria, England, Eire, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Malta, Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Turkey, Iran...