Word: sicilian
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This meant that the highly specialized German Air Force unit which had pounded Malta into unimportance, which had walloped the aircraft carrier Illustrious as it tried to run a convoy through the Sicilian channel, which above all had covered the transport of Axis troops and supplies to Libya, had gone on to greener pastures. The departure made the Sicilians very happy; no one now could say that Sicily was German-occupied territory...
With Germany master of the Balkans, it was believed that further Turkish resistance to German influence will depend on whether the Germans also are able to close the Sicilian Straits of Gibraltar, thus breaking the British "Life Line...
...Vice Admiral Henry Daniel Pridham-Wippell, an expert on big ships, the battle force undertook daring raids into the Strait of Otranto and once far beyond Valona in the Adriatic. It also laid siege to the Italian Dodecanese Islands. Last week the fleet splashed into "bomb alley"-the narrow Sicilian channel dominated by Italian Pantelleria on the one hand and German Stuka forces based on the island of Sicily on the other. But the Axis did not show its double head...
...clash between plane and fighting ship, the ship has come out well. Only one armored ship at sea, the cruiser Southampton, has been sunk through bombing alone; only one aircraft carrier, the Illustrious, has been badly hurt by the machine it nests. Both these encounters took place in the Sicilian channel last month (TIME, Jan. 27), and by last week attenuating circumstances had been discovered for both cases. A lucky hit on the Southampton started a fire inboard, which necessitated scuttling; and according to a statement last week by U. S. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, it appeared that...
...British could take Tripoli, they would be within 300 miles of Sicily and the new Stuka bases there. At Tripoli they would have another naval operating base, besides Malta, near the Sicilian channel. To throw Italy entirely and finally out of Africa was a goal not to be sneered at. Perhaps British proximity might prove to be a beneficial persuasion on General Maxime Weygand. The Vichy censors decided it was about time to let French newspapers pay a little attention to the Italian situation in Africa. The paper Montague of Clermont-Ferrand went so far as to say: "The word...