I cannot quite remember the month but the year was 1942. You will have to forgive my memory for I am of an age where all systems are beginning to fail. Some memories, however, are indelibly impressed ...
“To honour her brave people, I award the George Cross to the Island Fortress of Malta to bear witness to a heroism and devotion that will long be famous in history.” These are the words written by ...
On New Year’s Day, 1942, the German air force, the Luftwaffe, for the first time dropped PC 1800 RS rocket-assisted bombs over Malta. Churchill was worried that the island might fall in Axis hands- ...
On April 9, 1942, around 350 people were settled into their pews in the Church of St. Mary in Mosta, on the island of Malta. The island occupied a strategic location in the middle of the Mediterranean ...
Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2024. Pp. xii, 319. Illus., maps, plans, appends, notes, biblio., index. $55.00 paper. ISBN:147669009X The Saga of the Pedestal Convoy and ...
We left Scapa Flow at 0430 on Monday 4 August 1942 and proceeded to Londonderry to join convoy at full speed and on our own - time of arrival being 1630. We oiled and proceeded at 20 knots to ...
Thus the decision was taken, in the summer of 1942, to send sustenance to the battered fortress of Malta “at almost any cost”. That meant a huge escorting force of two battleships, three fleet ...
Scouts suffered under Nazi oppression in all the occupied countries of Europe during the Second World War, not least the Scouts of Malta. The year 1942 marked the heaviest in terms of air raid alerts ...
Since 1815, the island of Malta had been viewed as one of the jewels in Britain’s crown of empire — a vital way-station to the East and a sun-baked fortress that showcased the Royal Navy’s dominance ...
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