Word: maltas
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Lampedusa is eight square miles of rock, 80 miles east of Tunisia, 100 miles west of Malta. Most of it is rugged, but there is flat land at one end where an airfield has been built, and a small harbor on the south, reported to be a torpedo-boat base. The airfield was attacked from Malta last week...
Pantelleria lies smack in the middle of the Sicilian Channel. It is about half the size of Malta and has a simmering volcano at its center. Its airfield is reported to be connected by tunnel with a small underground hangar. The harbor can be used as a submarine base. The whole island is strongly fortified...
Doenitz knew the British well, and he had profound contempt for them at the war's start. In the last war, after service on a cruiser in the Mediterranean, he was transferred to U-boats, earned his own command. His UB-68 was sunk by the British off Malta in 1918. Rescued, Doenitz was taken to England as a prisoner of war. There he so successfully feigned mental illness that his captors kept him comfortably in a sanatorium...
...Enemy Is Disengaged. "More people," says George Weller, "died in Singapore's four heaviest raids than in two years of bombing of Malta." As the Japs pushed skillfully down Malaya, Singapore became a center of hopes, fears, rumor, and death from the air. The Prince...
When he was Lieut. Governor of Malta, at 52, Sir Harry Charles Luke swam five Mediterranean miles from Gozo to Malta in 4 hours 48 minutes, "and at the finish showed no signs of fatigue." Until he resigned as High Commissioner for the Western Pacific in 1942, Sir Harry spent 34 years in the British Colonial Service learning about seas, islands, and evil men. From his London retirement last week, Sir Harry spoke on what to do with Axis chiefs after the war: "The ideal place of residence for them . . . would be Falcon Island in the Pacific...