Word: scarpanto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outset. Soon after Italy capitulated, a handful of British airborne troops took a handful of Dodecanese and Aegean islands off Turkey's west coast. Their aim: air bases, harbors from which to harass from the rear the Nazis' outer chain of Balkan defenses-the islands of Rhodes, Scarpanto and Crete...
...Ankara also reported that the Axis feared attack in the eastern Mediterranean, was therefore shifting troops from garrisons in the northern Aegean Sea to islands in the south: Crete, Rhodes, rocky and forbidding Scarpanto...
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...
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