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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
Along with the justly lauded RAF, the Royal Navy had many finest hours during World War II. Operation Pedestal of August 1942, when the largest fleet of warships and merchantmen put together by the ...
A statue of Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, who led the air defence of Malta in 1942 and the Royal Air Force forces over London and the South East of England throughout the Battle of Britain, will ...
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 ...
Underwater footage captured by divers finally proves that the wreck of a World War II British submarine located off the coast of Malta two years ago is the HMS Urge – putting to rest decades of ...
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