Word: suda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British promptly occupied the deep harbor of Suda Bay, Crete. This operating base and its affiliated airfields, plus the heroic Greek stand, altered the strategy of the Eastern Mediterranean and allowed the British to take relatively permanent initiative for the first time in the war. A battle fleet kept sweeping between and around Corinth and Brindisi. always in hope of coming up with an Italian force and having a good scrap. To match the Italians' potential fire power in this area, this force was brought to two battleships, at least four cruisers, one aircraft carrier, at least a flotilla...
...full-out assault is made on Malta, it may be not only practice for an attack on Britain but a test of whether the Axis will ever be able to make successful assaults from the air on Gibraltar, Alexandria, Suda Bay, Tobruch, other big and little naval bases; whether, in short, the Axis can make the Mediterranean its sea by making the air above an Axis...
...poetry reader Was General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, Commander in Chief of Britain's Middle East Forces, on his way to Crete to inspect new British establishments there. At Suda Bay he heard reports from the expeditionary officers and toured gun emplacements. One of the huge guns was fired, and Cretans who stood around cheered and clapped as if an Italian ship had been sunk before their eyes. They talked exultingly of Suda Bay as "an eastern Gibraltar." Sir Archibald heard with satisfaction of the raid on Taranto (see p. 20), of R. A. F. cooperation in Greece...