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While U. S. Flying Fortresses alone smashed 44 enemy aircraft on the Axis airdrome at Castel Benito near Tripoli, planes of the Middle East Command hammered Tripoli itself, the nearby port of Homs, Crete, Sicily and Lampedusa island in the Sicilian straits...
Other planes blasted and strafed Sicilian airdromes, Tripoli, (now the main Axis supply base in North Africa), and the Bizerte airdrome, reinforcement base for German resistance in Tunisia...
...stake of the impending battle was the excellent Bizarre navel base, dominating the vital Sicilian straits, and Adolph Hitler was believ ed gambling every man and machine he could spare in an effort to hold one strong point on his crumbling Mediterranean flank
Knights of Malta. Largest of the five diminutive islands which cluster near the Sicilian Channel, flounder-shaped Malta is about 17 miles long, little more than nine miles wide. Steep cliffs rise out of the surf on her south shore; on her north, rocky boulders tumble into...
...hurried to the Middle East the hard way-straight through the Mediterranean. This was apparently the first load of equipment for Russia. Its passage was marked by the usual flurry of Italian air attacks on the convoy itself, by an unusual flurry of British air attacks on Italian and Sicilian cities-an apparent effort to divert the Italian Air Force from attacking the convoy...