Oct 1940 - I've been through The Straits and am currently south of Almeria in Spain with lots of single freighters with one escort passing westward, twin eels at the freighters with a crash dive to 120m and I'm safe as houses before the escort turns up!
Just came across a lone freighter struggling 4kts in a storm and now he's on fire and the chorus has struck-up!
Next I plan to nip into La Spezia to resupply and then I'm going to hang around Malta after reading Richard Woodman's 'Malta Convoys 1940 - 1943', a very good read - If the Italians had one backbone between them the whole outcome would've been different: Africa, Malta, Near-East and Balkans all Axis... we'd all be Deutsch sprechen!!!
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