Word: sardinia
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Into the triangle of Sardinia, Sicily and Tunisia he poured air strength. Reports last week were that he already had 1,000 planes in the area. By stripping European, Russian, Balkan, Italian air forces to the minimum, he could put an estimated 3,000 planes into the area, possibly prevent the junction of Allied North African forces, win himself more time to bolster his defenses of southern Europe...
...that Eisenhower announced the capitulation of Morocco and Algeria the bombers destroyed 19 planes and damaged 19 others on the el-Aouina airfield outside Tunis. The Nazis, for once having to worry about too little and too late, poured additional planes into the French Protectorate from bases in Sardinia and Sicily. German paratroops captured and held the airfield after French scattered garrisons under the leadership of the ubiquitous General Henri Giraud fired on the Nazis and Italians. Drawing on "flying Panzer divisions," supposedly held for an invasion of Britain, Hitler air-ferried twelve-and 15-ton tanks to protect...
...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...