March 1, 1942, was a deadly prelude to the Luftwaffe’s spring blitzkrieg on Malta, in the form of a devastating air raid on Floriana, leaving 20 people killed, 26 seriously injured and 23 slightly ...
As Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe entered the Battle of Malta, the air war over the strategically vital Mediterranean island ...
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. According to the police report of January 1, 1942, one ...
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 ...
In the summer of 1942, George Beurling arrived over Malta with a reputation for flying alone, ignoring convention, and caring far more about the kill than the credit. In the brutal air war above the ...
New pictures reveal the aftermath of one of the Allies' greatest, but often forgotten, air battles of the war INCREDIBLE black and white images have shed light on a ferocious but oft-forgotten chapter ...