On New Year’s Day, 1942, the German air force, the Luftwaffe, for the first time dropped PC 1800 RS rocket-assisted bombs over Malta. Churchill was worried that the island might fall in Axis hands- ...

January 1941 brings a brutal week over Malta as German and Italian air forces hammer Grand Harbour, determined to finish off ...

On April 9, 1942, around 350 people were settled into their pews in the Church of St. Mary in Mosta, on the island of Malta. The island occupied a strategic location in the middle of the Mediterranean ...

Luftwaffe attacks on Malta 80 years ago saw the destruction of the Royal Opera House, heavy bombing on Luqa, many casualties and the miracle of the Mosta Rotunda During April 1942, Malta experienced ...

New pictures reveal the aftermath of one of the Allies' greatest, but often forgotten, air battles of the war INCREDIBLE black and white images have shed light on a ferocious but oft-forgotten chapter ...

Malta was one of the most intensively bombed areas during WWII with the German Luftwaffe and Italian Regia Aeronautica flying a total of 3,000 bombing raids over two years, dropping 6,700 tons of ...

In the summer of 1942, George Beurling arrived in Malta with a reputation for breaking rules and flying alone. In the chaos above the island, his Spitfire twisted through walls of gunfire as he hunted ...

In stone-deaf Lady Strickland’s Maltese garden a land mine blew the tail feathers off her prize peacock, blew Lady Strickland off her feet. She remarked, as she got up: “At last I’ve heard something.” ...

Outcome: One of the most heavily bombed populations resisted capitulation to the Axis powers and the nation was awarded the George Cross in 1942. The British colony of Malta was crucial to the war in ...

When Italy’s dictator Benito Mussolini threw in his lot with Adolf Hitler on 10th June 1940 and drew Italy into the war against Britain and France, one of his first acts of war was to attack Malta.

Outcome: One of the most heavily bombed populations resisted capitulation to the Axis powers and the nation was awarded the George Cross in 1942. The British colony of Malta was crucial to the war in ...