Word: sardinia
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...cannot prophesy. I cannot tell you when or where the United Nations are going to strike next in Europe. ... I cannot tell you whether we are going to hit them in Norway, or through the Low Countries, or in France, or through Sardinia or Sicily, or through the Balkans, or through Poland-or at several points simultaneously. But I can tell you that no matter where and when we strike by land, we and the British and the Russians will hit them from the air heavily and relentlessly...
...veteran of photographic flying in the Arctic, Britain and Iceland. In Africa he has one of the Air Forces' most dangerous jobs, including what pilots and photographers call "dicing"-flying as low as 100 feet over enemy targets for close-up pictures. Roosevelt has "diced" Tunisia, Sicily and Sardinia, and last week he was still trying to pile up more combat-flying time than any other man in his unit. One reason for his zeal: he knows that many men in the Army look with suspicion on "the President...
...beginning the Axis had the edge. Hitler had poured in air strength. His African air chief, Air Field Marshal Erhard Milch, had the advantage of air bases close to the fighting front. Milch's fighters snarled out from Bizerte and Tunis; bombers roared from Sicily and Sardinia and from the little island of Pantelleria in the straits. The farther the First Army advanced, the more vulnerable it became to Milch's stings...
Overhead soared R.A.F. fighters and the heavy bombers of Jimmy Doolittle's 12th Air Force, sprinkling paratroops into strategic spots, raining destruction on Axis-held airfields. Major General* Doolittle's job was just beginning. London reported that Hitler had massed 1,000 planes in Sicily, Sardinia, south Italy and Crete. If he launched them into North Africa, Doolittle and his U.S. and R.A.F. flyers would have their hands full...
...Tunisia and Tripoli fall, Italy's cities and vulnerable north-south rail lines are certain to get a shuttle-service plastering from North African air bases. If the Anglo-American drive hops across to Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, Italy will be wide open to land invasion. Reports that the Germans were fortifying the Brenner Pass suggests that German strategists may not bank too heavily on Italy's ability to defend her own shores...