Word: valetta
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...Reconstruct the devastated cities of Warsaw, Rotterdam, Coventry, London, Stalingrad, Valetta, Berlin, Tokyo...
...show to establish a point of pride. The Axis was pocketing too many losses for that-in April a total of 137 aircraft, by British count. Malta went on taking it and fighting back, proudly showed a statue of Victoria, respectable, white and undamaged in the ragged mess of Valetta's disheveled ruins...
Axis interest in Malta suddenly intensified when the aircraft carrier Illustrious limped into the island's tight but deep harbor, Valetta, after the Battle of the Sicilian channel three weeks ago (TIME, Jan. 27). Day after day German dive bombers returned. At first they just attacked the crippled Illustrious. Then they began going after port installations and defenses in general. The British, hunting down the Stuka hive at Catania, Sicily, raided it many times to try to smoke the attackers...