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Show Axis Guns Trained on 'The Rock' j ':::':::-:::;;;:,,,:v"X X XV-y,wJJ -J :-tri 2e llll Spanish soil now bears Nazi guns, and as the map above shows, the territory of Spain and Spanish Morocco form the jaws of a vise that can trap the British Mediterranean fleet or force them to flee towards the Suez, where a threatened drive by the Germans may bottle them up. The big Nazi planted guns awaited only the word-of Hitler to loose a storm of steel into the rock fortress of Gibraltar. Concealed miles back and protected by the hard rock of the Ronda range, other powerful Axis artillery would join the coastal guns In any action. Gibraltar's guns are not heavy enough to silence the long-range hill batteries, even if they could be located. Without a land base from which their observation and bombed planes could operate, oper-ate, the chances of the English fleet remaining in the Mediterranean sea hourly grow? less. |