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Show Guarding 'The Rock' From Sea and Air I Lid LLJ T-?"- - H I : ' iB'': ' -I'! SSIIIIIS i : I 1 ipfif -- . :,: : V- v ! f ST r is f i - ' A view from an accompanying British war plane high above Great Britain's Rock of Gibraltar, showing another plane on patrol duty, winging high over the harbor, wherein are several men o' war. All are on the alert against attack by German planes from the air and German troops that might be given a "corridor" down to southern Spain by the Fascist government. The Rock, which is one of the most formidable fortresses in the world, is Great Britain's effective western door to the Mediterranean, through which British commerce and warships flow from day to day. |