Last week the eternal secret weapon reappeared in the news. At La Linea, next to Gibraltar, "a strange craft looking like the hybrid offspring of a torpedo and a launch" ten feet long, equipped with a seat on either side slightly abaft the beam, drawn by a propeller in the nose, gasoline-motivated was found on the beach. Its motor was still running and its crew had disappeared.
This report was no fantasy from the mind of an idle reporter. In World War I Italy used the MAS (motor torpedo boat), the...
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