Show T I Allied Aim To Break Mediterranean Bottleneck S jr- jr 5 I FRANCE j RUMANIA S S East sea more Axil and is air airbases open convoys bases limit use avoid main of sea power by hug ging African coast ALGERIA i ALEXANDRIA VIA MEDITERRANEAN VIA CAPETOWN LIBYA NEW YORK YORK PORT PORT SAID 5 NEW YORK YORK PORT PORT SAID 1 1900 EGYPT NEW YORK BASRA IRAQ NEW YORK BASRA PLYMOUTH PORT PLYMOUTH PORT SAID 3 PLYMOUTH PORT PLYMOUTH PORT SAID I 1500 1 CONTROLLED BY PLYMOUTH PLYMOUTH BASRA BASRA PLYMOUTH PLYMOUTH BASRA BASRA AXIS AIR POWER The circle of battle in Tunisia has as one major major major ma ma- jor objective breaking the bottleneck which divides the Mediterranean into two seas Forthe Forthe For Tor the Strait of Sicily Is only 80 miles wide and andI I its center Is the Italian island of Pantelleria which affords even en shorter range fa facilities for bomber attacks on allied convoys Pushing the axis from its hold on the African mainland at this point would enable the united nations to establish a continuous umbrella of fighter plane protection from Gibraltar to the Suez canal Slow How this would save sa convoy distances S is is' shown in the th box above S |