Word: sardinia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allied bases along the North African coast will place Germany's advanced Mediterranean bases in Sardinia, Sicily and Crete in immediate danger. The Axis' entire Mediterranean coast line may soon be bombed and raided; almost certainly, it will eventually be invaded...
Soon the rail, highway and air approaches to Algiers from east and west on the land, and from Sardinia or Sicily by air, were commanded by the invaders. General Alfonse Pierre Juin, Vichy's military commander in North Africa, reported to Vichy that gunfire was nearing the town, but there was no detailed evidence that his native troops and French officers put up more than a token resistance. At 7 p.m. on Sunday, 16 hours after the U.S. troops landed, he and Admiral Darlan agreed to surrender Algiers. Over the docks, the flames and smoke were still rising...
...Union Jack was the first Allied flag up over Algiers' docks. (At first the Tricolor continued to fly over Governor Yves Charles Chatel's residence. The warships did not long have the harbor in peace: the afternoon after Algiers' surrender, German Stukas (presumably from Sicily or Sardinia) attacked. Twelve miles offshore Axis, British and U.S. planes mixed in the first of many battles which will be fought before the Allies have unquestioned command of the Mediterranean...
...Sardinia, Sicily or Italy itself might be chosen as a target. Geographical and military realities were huge and frightening obstacles, but they did not in themselves bar an effort which might also save Egypt and Suez and make it possible to supply Malta without the present appalling cost in ships...
...Italians announced that they jumped-up the convoy—a mighty one, with two aircraft carriersצff Sardinia, and at once began a running attack. In their first attack they claimed to have sunk two cruisers, one destroyer, four supply ships; to have damaged a carrier, a battleship, seven other craft. This, they boasted, was only a beginning...