When Italy declared war on Great Britain and France, one of its first targets was the British stronghold of Malta, barely a ...

Message 2 - Malta Posted on: 09 February 2004 by gildas. It is amazing how the siege of Malta is little recognized in the bigger picture of the history of WWII.

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First siege. In 1940, in the early months of World War Two, Malta had been the centrepiece of Britain's strategic naval position in the Mediterranean for almost a century and a half.

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The Battle Honour ‘Malta 1942’ was conferred to a number of ships and regiments that had participated in the defence of the island in various ways, but the Royal Air Force shared an equal glory.

When Italy declared war on Britain and France in June 1940, Malta became a prime target for the next three years because its strategic position in the centre of the Mediterranean Sea made it a ...

"It remains an extraordinary story," said Mathew Lyons in Literary Review.On 18 May 1565, an Ottoman fleet of some 200 ships carrying more than 25,000 soldiers appeared off Malta, to be joined ...

More than 100 Siege of Malta veterans will attend, along with officials representing the free forces of Europe, the Commonwealth forces, the United States forces and the Merchant Navy, which all ...

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