Word: maltas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least 90 Axis ships have been sunk in the central Mediterranean during the last four months: many more have probably been sunk. Royal Navy submarines sank the majority of them. Allied fighters have harassed the air transport lines. Allied bombers from Malta and the African mainland have incessantly bombed Axis ports, transshipment points and railroads in Italy, Sicily and on the receiving end in Tunisia. Since they lost Tripoli, Rommel's forces in southern Tunisia have been supplied by the overworked coastal railroad between Bizerte and Gabes, and this too has often been bombed. But Allied attacks have neither...
Sometimes the best clue to the man-of-the-week's identity is a map (like the map of the middle Mediterranean which identified Lord Gort as Governor of Malta). Sometimes it is a flag or a national emblem. Sometimes it is a realistic scene (like the charging tanks behind Britain's General Montgomery) or an allegorical scene (like the Volga running red behind Field Marshal Bock, attacker of Stalingrad). When we put "Hangman" Heydrich on the cover, we planned to put just one noose in the background, but the artist had so much fun drawing its intricacies...
...question of the fact," Hamilton declares, "that Germany is already using Spain as an advanced base of military operations . . . the deserted coast of Galicia, with its many small harbors, provides superb opportunities for fueling U-boats. ... In 1942 even heavily armed convoys were getting through to Malta only with severe losses. Most of the planes which inflicted them seemed to be based on Sardinia, but the Balearics also certainly were used...
...heavy bombers of the R.A.F. and the U.S. Ninth Air Force, based somewhere in Libya, flew to Sfax and Sousse. It was days before a momentarily confused enemy, with his alarm nets spread to the north and west, realized whence came these new onslaughts (see p. 26). Malta-based bombers also helped. At week's end dispatches reported La Goulette, port of Tunis, knocked out, Bizerte, Sfax and Sousse rapidly being rendered unusable...
...officer, Major Karl Haushofer, to study the workings of the Japanese Army. Traveling slowly via Suez and Singapore, young Haushofer hailed the flag of the Rising Sun with "immense relief." His long journey from the Fatherland had been humiliating: at many stages of the ship's passage-Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, Aden, India, Singapore-he had seen a rocky bastion rise from the water flying the British Union Jack. A trained geographer, young Haushofer well knew of Britain's imperial lifeline. But on his trip this line took on a new and shocking significance in his eyes: it became...