Word: pegadia
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Closing in on the islands, the Fleet Air Arm, operating from the carrier Furious, bombed airfields at Marizza and Calato on Rhodes. The cruisers Sydney and Orion rained shells on the island of Scarpanto, blasting an airfield at Makri Yalo and pounding Pegadia...
...submarines." An Italian specialty, these darting little craft armed with two torpedo tubes, manned by ten men, will make 47 knots. The poet Gabriele d'Annunzio used to say that their initials stood for "memento audare semper"-"remember always to be brave." Five of them buzzed out from Pegadia to the attack. The destroyer Ilex spurted forward, intercepted them, sank two, damaged a third, and sent the other pair hightailing. As the vessels moved off, Italian planes attacked, but were repulsed with the loss of two. Bored, the British squadron steamed away...
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