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HISTORY
Initially the air defense was provided by
the obsolete Gladiators and Hurricanes.
The much-desired Spitfires could only
be transferred to the island during the
spring months of 1942. Newly delivered
Spitfires Mk.Vb/Vc ultimately earned their
greatest glory defending this extremely
strategically important island.
Battle of Malta took place from June 1940
till November 1942 and went down in
history as the battle for the “unsinkable
aircraft carrier”. In the beginning of the
WWII this overlooked Mediterranean
island became one of the key spots of
the battle for the Mediterranean and the
battle of Africa as well as its strategic
importance was paramount. The aircraft,
submarines and ships operating out of
there were able to interrupt the supply
routes to the Rommel’s Afrika Korps and
in this manner to defend Africa, Suez
Channel, and valuable oil fields behind
it. It is well known fact that the mistaken
political and strategic judgement of the
air commanders lead to the situation that
in June 1940 there were almost no fighter
aircraft based on Malta. Had not four
crated Sea Gladiators been accidentally
discovered the whole island’s air defense
would have been non existing. One of
the aircraft was soon heavily damaged
and the pilots bravely defended Malta
with those three remaining airplanes
against the enemy attacks for eighteen
days until four Hurricanes arrived as
a reinforcement. Consequently, the British,
now fully aware of Malta’s importance
and its strategic value, started gradually
to reinforce the island defense with more
Hurricanes.
For the whole year of 1941, Malta had to
be defended against the concentrated
enemy attacks. The Axis powers bombed
the island’s infrastructure focusing on the
port, airport and storage facilities. In the
meantime, the convoys headed for Malta
were mercilessly pursued and destroyed
which in fact put the island under the siege.
On December 4, 1941, at night the German
Luftwaffe launched the continuous
bombing which lasted five long months
and intended to break the resistance
of the Royal Navy and Air Force finally.
At the end the plan to invade Malta, code
named Hercules, was hastily prepared.
The Field Marshall Albert Kesselring was
put in charge of the attacks on Malta. His
forces were clearly numerically superior
over the defenders. The frequent bombing
raids destroyed a major part of the British
SPITFIRES FOR MALTA
Text: Michal Krechowski Photo: IWM
Due to its strategic location
at the crossroads of the
shipping lines between
Gibraltar and Alexandria
as well as Italy and North
Africa, Malta became a target
of the continuous enemy air
attacks. During the WWII, in
order to defend the island,
the British were forced to
constantly deploy more and
more fighters and pilots to its
“unsinkable aircraft carrier”.
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