Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They grew fabulously wealthy. At one time they occupied half a dozen fortified strongholds around the Mediterranean, and drew revenues from more than 140 estates in Palestine and from some 19,000 manors in Europe...
...Barcelona harbor. Ancient Spanish cannon in the fort protecting the harbor bellowed their reply. Out of the mist loomed two U.S. cruisers and three destroyers. It was the U.S. Sixth Fleet's first operational visit in Franco's day, to Spain's well-sheltered Mediterranean ports. All told, 30 U.S. warships, including the 45,000-ton aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt, the carrier Tarawa (27,100 tons) and three heavy cruisers, steamed into eight Spanish ports last week...
Then U.S. technical officers got down to the real purpose of their visit: to inspect Spanish port facilities. The Sixth Fleet has no real home in the Mediterranean. It wanders from Gibraltar to Suez, usually refueling at sea. U.S. admirals are dissatisfied with their allies' bases: Naples, the fleet's present headquarters, is too close to Russian bomber bases in the Balkans; Gibraltar and Malta are too small and too crowded...
...many ways, Spain's long, indented Mediterranean shoreline is ideal. But Sixth Fleet staff officers ruefully noted last week that not one of Spain's east coast ports has a deep enough channel to float the carrier FDR; Spanish cranes are too small, and drydocks, fuel tanks and warehouses are hopelessly inadequate to service U.S. capital ships. If Spain is to become a U.S. naval base, it will cost many pesetas...
...narrative of World War II might well be called "Tales of the North Atlantic." It is unusual among war memoirs in that its author is a bright, youngish (50) rear admiral of naval aviation with no intention of retiring-he currently commands a carrier division in the Atlantic and Mediterranean from the flag bridge of the Coral...