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 ...
The Luftwaffe in Sicily intensified its attacks on Malta in the first two months of 1942, so that the island would no longer serve as a base for attacks on Axis convoys ferrying troops and supplies to ...
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 ...
As Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe entered the Battle of Malta, the air war over the strategically vital Mediterranean island reached a devastating new level. Elite Stuka dive bombers, Messerschmitt Bf 109 ...
During World War II, the island of Malta became one of the most heavily contested locations in the Mediterranean as Germany’s Luftwaffe joined the air war with large scale bombing raids and fighter ...
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 ...
The British colony of Malta was crucial to the war in the Mediterranean. Hitler showed Malta no mercy and it has been estimated that the island was one of the most intensely bombed areas in the entire ...
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