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 ...
Hatboro >> Speaking at the Lehmann Methodist Church May 6, retired Royal Navy Capt. Leigh Fraser’s presentation about the Siege of Malta during World War II sometimes reached back across centuries of ...
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The outdated fighter that stopped an air invasion
During the brutal siege of Malta, Axis bombers and fighters attacked relentlessly, turning night skies into a chaos of flak ...
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The BF-109 that almost survived Malta Hans Pills’ harrowing crash
In April 1942, during the brutal Siege of Malta, Luftwaffe pilot Hans Pills faced the deadly combination of enemy fighters and anti-aircraft fire. Flying the iconic Messerschmitt BF-109, Pills’ ...
Crowley (1453), an independent scholar of the 16th-century Mediterranean, focuses here on the final contest between Christian and Muslim, Hapsburg and Ottoman, for control of the Middle Sea.
Mdina, Malta's old capital, has been besieged many times in the past but it was only defeated twice - the latest being in 1798, by the Maltese. This was the contention of well-known photographer ...
Clashing civilizations, rival great powers, cutting-edge technology: we have been here before, as Marcus Bull, a professor at the University of North Carolina, shows in The Great Siege of Malta, his ...
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