”Malta is Winston Churchill “Malta Command” is a Second World War living history or re-enactment group which aims to portray the life of men and women serving in the British Forces during the Battle of Malta in WW2 and any other military units linked to the islands. 2nd Battalion – Ki...
During lockdown I’ve been walking a lot round my local cemetery, Kingston Cemetery in Portsmouth. Actually, it’s very local – I can see it from my back window. And as you would expect, it has a lot of war graves – over 500 to be exact. When I was doing some research last ye...
During the summer of 1942 the British Fleet Air Arm (FAA) was increasingly concerned with fighter direction in multi-carrier operations. Early in August its shipsEagle,Victorious,Indomitable,Furious, andArgustrained together, anticipating further operations in support of Malta. That monthEagle,Furious,...
Winston Churchill was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. He was a central figure in the Allied victory in World War II and is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century. ...
A point that was not lost on the Ottomans, who sent 40,000 men to try and take the island in 1565 — the 'Great Siege of Malta'. The Knights, fighting almost to the last man, held out and won. Now the important thing here is the CONTINUED EXISTENCE AS A SOVEREIGN STATE of the ...
I am a 21 year old female student following a degree in pedagogy at the University of Malta. At present I am doing the literature review for my dissertation entitled "Hidden From History : Gender Issues in the Maltese History Curriculum in Secondary Schools...In Malta history is one of the...
21 and No. 107 Squadrons based in Malta raided the Italian base at Castelvetrano destroying eleven Axis transport aircraft on the ground and thereby hindering the amount of supplies and reinforcements that could be forwarded to North Africa. [Castelvetrano, Sicilia | AC]...
Tenryu completed her anti-aircraft weaponry refitting at Truk, Caroline Islands.ww2dbase[Tenryu|Truk|CPC] Gibraltar HMS Eagle departed Gibraltar with 15 Spitfire fighters on the flight deck to be delivered to Malta.ww2dbase[Eagle|CPC] Indian Ocean ...
MeanwhileWaspsailed twice into the Mediterranean to ferry Spitfires to Britain’sbeleaguered Malta garrison. But after the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway in which the carriersLexington(CV-2) andYorktown (CV-5)were lost,Wasptoo was sent to the Pacific, leavingRangeras...
He would fly reconaissance near Sicily and report back in Tunis, Malta, and Tripoli during this time. By the time he was out of Iran, Malta's siege had been lifted and was now a base again, so he spent most of his time during this period there. The combination of natural beauty ...