Word: maltas
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...Prelude. The first blow at Tunisia was struck by twin-engined bombers soaring over "Death Alley" from Malta. On the same day that Eisenhower announced the capitulation of Morocco and Algeria the bombers destroyed 19 planes and damaged 19 others on the el-Aouina airfield outside Tunis. The Nazis, for once having to worry about too little and too late, poured additional planes into the French Protectorate from bases in Sardinia and Sicily. German paratroops captured and held the airfield after French scattered garrisons under the leadership of the ubiquitous General Henri Giraud fired on the Nazis and Italians. Drawing...
Right now we have 52 such covers all electrotyped "8 up." Half of them will have to be melted down unused, of course. For example, last month you saw Lord Gort on TIME'S cover as Governor of Malta. Gort's portrait was first done many weeks ago when he was Governor of Gibraltar-and when he was transferred a thousand miles East we had to do an entirely new Gort painting with a Maltese background. And then we also had to get the new Commander into a Gibraltar background. The result was 64 new press plates...
...With the airports of French North Africa in Allied hands, land-based Allied planes will be able to defend British convoys headed eastward through the Mediterranean. With the rail and highway route from Casablanca to Tunis, the Allies will not need Mediterranean convoys -even fighters can be flown to Malta and Egypt by easy stages...
...Bombers from Malta had eased the way for the Allies with a crushing raid on the airport near Tunis which wrecked or crippled 38 planes, and the Rome radio reported a tangle between Italian and Allied fighter planes over Cape Bon, 145 miles, inside Tunisia from Algeria. This indicated Allied fighters were operating from new forward bases in Algeria or that long-range fighters from Malta had joined the fray...
...June 1941, when Arthur Tedder succeeded Sir Arthur Longmore as air boss for the Middle East, he became chief of an air domain that stretches now from Malta to the Persian Gulf and extends south to Madagascar...