Nostradamus and World War II

Nostradamus has predicted:

Gibraltar will be the pivot of the Allied forces in the Mediterranean

According to my own method of interpretation,
only french lines in dark blue will be analysed and interpreted

Quatrain II-39 Un an devant le conflit italique, Germains, Gaulois, Espagnols pour le fort: Cherra l'école, maison de république, Où, hormis peu, seront suffoqués morts.	A year before the italian conflict, Germans, Gallics, Spanish to the fort: The school house of the republic will fall, Where, save a few, [they] will suffocate and die.
Quatrain I-75 Le tyran Sienne occupera Savone, Le fort gagné tiendra classe marine: Les deux armées par les Marches d'Ancone, Par effrayeur le chef s'en examine.	The tyrant [from] Siena will occupy Savona, The captured fort will resist the marine fleet: The two armies by the Marches of Ancona, Fearing something, the chief questions himself.

Analysis:

conflit italique
Germains
Gaulois
Espagnols
fort
Gagner
tenir

classe

italian conflict
the Germans represented by the government of Vichy, under German control.
the italians, represented by the italian Gaul [Cisalpine]
the spanish.
Fort, fortified place.
to gain, in the sense of to conquer.
to hold, in the sense of to resist to or to keep away from.
from the latin classis, la flotte: the fleet: a reunion of war ships, airplanes . Here, Nostradamus specifies it is warships.

Interpretation
One year before the italian conflict
Germany, Italy and Spain will try to conquer Gibraltar.
...Impregnable, the fortress will resist naval attacks.

History

Of strategic importance, the fort was the access road to the various countries located on the Mediterranean and Adriatic shores. There is little chance to find a fort that was attacked by three countries at the same time in the same period of time, and yet, at the onset of World War II, the fortress of Gibraltar was, indeed, attacked by the forces of the AXIS, the Italians and the Spanish.
When Germany declared war, Gibraltar was under british protectorate, a crown colony. I believe the fort of quatrain II-39 and that of I-75 are one and the same, the fort of Gibraltar. Strategic importance of Gibraltar:

The British Fleet in Gibraltar
[P.123] VICHY RETALIATES AND BOMBARDS GIBRALTAR [24 septembre 1940]
[P.269] In november 1942, the allies had no other piece of land in occidental Europe, the Medirerranean and west of Malta but the fortress of Gibraltar. Without Gibraltar, the essential aerial protection could not have played its role on the battlefields of North Africa.
[Translation - Memorial de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, Tome 2, Sélection du Reader's Digest 1965 ]

During World War II, Hitler attached much importance to Gibraltar. Thus, he tried to sign a treaty with Franco so he could use the detroit, but this was eventually refused. However, Franco took advantage of the conflict, along with France [of Vichy, the Germans] and Italy, to attack the fortress that was nevertheless able to shoot three of his planes:
[P.123] VICHY RETALIATES AND BOMBS GIBRALTAR September 24, 1940. For the first time since the beginning of hostilities, the rock of Gibraltar has been hit by the bombs of a former ally. After the british operation on Dakar, a counter-attack by the France of Vichy, [during the German occupation] [Germains] was inevitable. The raid of a hundred bombers should have destroyed the port, and yet, it would seem that several french pilots deliberately unloaded their load in the sea, and most of the bombs that hit the ground had been sabotaged and did not explode... However, another problem worries them: Hitler is about to try to convince Spain to join the Axis while Roosevelt tries to convince Franco to remain neuter. The three planes [Espagnols] brought down last night augurs ill for what is to follow: will Madrid join Berlin? The detroit remains a strategic point for the allies, an essential base for the destroyers...

There were repeated attacks to conquer the fort of Gibraltar, but in vain: the fort was impregnable:

[P.132] ...October 30, 1940. An amphibious attack against Gibraltar ends in failure (Le fort gagné tiendra classe marine)for the italians . [Gaulois]
[Translation - Chronique de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, Jacques Legrand SA]

Thus, attacked by three countries, the British managed to keep the fortress. This strategic advantage facilitated the transport of allied troops by sea to Sicily, Italy and other countries during the war.

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