Word: valetta
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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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...