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Author : Diane Canwell
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1844157407
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)
Download or read book Air War Malta written by Diane Canwell and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beretter om luftkampeme om Malta under 2. verdenskrig.
Author : Great Britain. Ministry of Information
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Air Battle of Malta written by Great Britain. Ministry of Information and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beskriver RAF luftoperationer over Malta under 2. verdenskrig
Author : Anthony Rogers
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 178438190X
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)
Download or read book Air Battle of Malta written by Anthony Rogers and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Second World War, Malta was besieged for nearly two and a half years, during which time a decisive air war was waged between Britain, Italy and Germany.This is part of that story, from the early days in June 1940, when only a few Gladiator biplanes were available to combat Italian bombers and fighters, to the intervention of the Luftwaffe and the tenuous defense by outclassed Hurricanes, culminating in the desperate months of fighting following the arrival on Malta of the Spitfire in March 1942.What became of the many aircraft destroyed over the Maltese Islands, and what was the fate of their pilots and crews?More than a thousand aircraft were lost. Many crashed into the Mediterranean; others came down on Malta and the neighboring island of Gozo. This book focuses on the latter some 200 British, Italian and German machines, and the fate of their pilots and crews. It reveals where those airplanes fell, thus providing a record that will continue to be valued by future generations.This comprehensive volume documents all known aircraft crash sites in and around the Maltese Islands and provides the circumstances of each loss are related in detail with accounts from both sides.In Germany especially there are many still unaware of the fate of family members who never returned after the Second World War. This book reveals what happened to some who even today are still officially listed as missing.
Author : Ryan K. Noppen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472820614
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)
Download or read book Malta 1940–42 written by Ryan K. Noppen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1940, the strategically vital island of Malta was Britain's last toehold in the central Mediterranean, wreaking havoc among Axis shipping. Launching an air campaign to knock Malta out of the war, first Italy and then Germany sought to force a surrender or reduce the defences enough to allow an invasion. Drawing on original documents, multilingual aviation analyst Ryan Noppen explains how technical and tactical problems caused the original Italian air campaign of 1940–41 to fail, and then how the German intervention came close to knocking Malta out of the war. Using stunning full colour artwork, this fascinating book explains why the attempt by the Axis powers to take the British colony of Malta ultimately failed.
Author : James Douglas-Hamilton
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 178159788X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Air Battle for Malta written by James Douglas-Hamilton and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2007-01-31 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an intriguing and realistic account of the struggle for the possession of Malta during World War II. The air battle raged for two and a half years during which time 14,000 tons of bombs were dropped on a defiant population.The history is based on the diaries of Lord David Douglas-Hamilton, the author's uncle, who was the leader of a Spitfire squadron that defended the island during the worst of the crisis.
Author : GREAT BRITAIN. AIR MINISTRY.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780117083554
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Air Battle of Malta written by GREAT BRITAIN. AIR MINISTRY. and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Beurling
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1909166294
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Download or read book Malta Spitfire written by George Beurling and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2011-07-14 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An aviator’s true story of WWII air combat, including two dramatic weeks in the skies above the besieged island of Malta. Twenty-five thousand feet above Malta—that is where the Spitfires intercepted the Messerschmitts, Macchis, and Reggianes as they swept eastward in their droves, screening the big Junkers with their bomb loads as they pummeled the island beneath: the most bombed patch of ground in the world. One of those Spitfire pilots was George Beurling, nicknamed “Screwball,” who in fourteen flying days destroyed twenty-seven German and Italian aircraft and damaged many more. Hailing from Canada, Beurling finally made it to Malta in the summer of 1942 after hard training and combat across the Channel. Malta Spitfire tells his story and that of the gallant Spitfire squadron, 249, which day after day ascended to the “top of the hill” to meet the enemy against overwhelming odds. With this memoir, readers experience the sensation of being in the cockpit with him, climbing to meet the planes driving in from Sicily, diving down through the fighter screen at the bombers, dodging the bullets coming out of the sun, or whipping up under the belly of an Me for a deflection shot at the engine. This is war without sentiment or romance, told in terms of human courage, skill, and heroism—a classic of WWII military aviation.
Author : Tony O'Toole
Publisher : Sam Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781906959005
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)
Download or read book Air War Over Malta written by Tony O'Toole and published by Sam Publications. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of an exciting new series which will concentrate on significant air campaigns throughout the history of aviation. The book chronicles the air battles during the George Cross island's siege from late 1940 to early 1944, with a well-documented and informative text, hundreds of historical photographs and pages of full-colour illustrations documenting the colour schemes and markings of the aircraft taking part.
Author : Steve Nichols
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781846033056
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book Malta Spitfire Aces written by Steve Nichols and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The siege of Malta during World War 2 is one of the great epics of aerial warfare. In 1942, it was described alternately as both a 'fighter pilot's paradise' and 'the most bombed place on earth'. During the peak of the Axis efforts against Malta, it suffered 154 consecutive days and nights of bombing, 100 nights more that London suffered during the Blitz. The destruction of Axis convoys by Malta-based aircraft proved to be one of the decisive factors in the defeat of Rommel's forces in North Africa. This vital position would have been lost if it had not been for the successful defence of the island by a handful of greatly outnumbered Royal Air Force fighter squadrons. In the brutal and unforgiving air war over Malta only the very best fighter pilots succeeded, and all too often that was no guarantee of living another day. This book details the heroic story of the Spitfire Aces based on Malta. Drawn from an international team of Australians, British, Canadians, New Zealanders, Rhodesians and South Africans these pilots fought against extreme deprivation, physical hardships and overwhelming odds in one of the most crucial and decisive air battles of World War II.
Author : Anthony Rogers
Publisher : Greenhill Books
ISBN 13 : 1784384623
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)
Download or read book Siege of Malta 1940–42 written by Anthony Rogers and published by Greenhill Books. This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly two and a half years, from June 1940 until late 1942, Malta was subjected to one Axis air raid after another. The Mediterranean island was effectively beleaguered, reliant for defence on anti-aircraft guns and often-outnumbered fighter aircraft and dependent for survival on naval supply convoys. The Axis attempted to bomb and starve Malta into submission, attacking ports, military and industrial areas, leading to Malta becoming one of the most intensively bombed areas of the Second World War, with well over 3000 alerts before the end of hostilities. But against the odds, and at heavy cost, Malta was held. Malta was vital to Allied success in North Africa, dominating Axis supply routes to the region. It was a remarkable, intense campaign, a crucial turning point in the Second World War, and one of the Allies’ greatest tactical and strategic victories. This is an account of that desperate time, as witnessed by those who were there and illustrated with their wartime photographs, together with colour images of Malta today.
