The Germans are concentrating on Britain's Mediterranean island fortress of Malta, where the Nazis report they have attacked several times the British aircraft carrier Ilustrious.
Nothing really new has been learned in this action between air power and naval power. It has become an axiom that naval power is at a great disadvantage when near enemy land air bases, from which hundreds of enemy planes can take part in ap action against surface warships, For this reason, war fleets are loath to fight near enemy air bases. But in the Mediterranean there was the necessity for Great Britain to take the risk of such attacks in navigating the narrow passage between Sicily and Africa, where the Illustrious was bombed. The fortified island of Pantelleria in the Strait of Sicily is a menace which the British Navy must accept, having failed so far to reduce it,
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