Word: maltas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winston Churchill had good cause to feel pleased. Despite the wrangle over a "second front" he had persisted in putting first things first so that now Britain's lifeline from Gibraltar to Malta to Alexandria was secured. The solid red lines on the map showed more than the routes of a southern invasion of Europe. They showed that the geographical sinews-if not the social and political sinews-of the British Empire, upon which the U.S. depended too, had been saved and restored. That was one reason why Mr. Churchill was pleased to call the Mediterranean the "third front...
...cruisers, the Aurora and Penelope, with the destroyers Lance and Lively, intercepted one Axis convoy of ten cargo ships and two destroyers and sank all twelve. British submarines, raiding the overwater supply line to Rommel in North Africa, sank 1,335,000 tons of Axis shipping. Malta, bombed and isolated, faced starvation, and between January and August 1942 British warships convoying merchantmen made six attempts to go to her succor, punched through four battered convoys. The aircraft carrier Eagle was lost with some destroyers, thousands of merchant tons...
Great Day. A black pennant, the designated symbol of surrender, flew from the highest mast of each ship when the Italia, Vittorio Veneto, five of the cruisers and four of the destroyers passed the British destroyer Hambledon off Malta. Aboard the Hambledon were two interested observers: General Eisenhower and Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, naval victor of the Mediterranean. A.P. Correspondent Clark Lee, who was also aboard the Hambledon, got the impression that Admiral Cunningham would have admired the Italians more if they had been at battle stations, fighting it out. But, said the Admiral...
Great Victory. By this week, at Malta and other ports, five of Italy's six remaining battleships, at least seven cruisers and 26 other warships had put in under the black pennant. One of them was Italy's only seaplane carrier. (The Italians have no regular carriers.) Italian submarines were popping up every...
Admiral Cunningham is tough and British. Said he, looking back to the years when the British all but lost the Mediterranean, and the route to Malta was a Royal Navy grave: "It wasn't so tough. Not tough...