During World War II, the island of Malta became one of the most heavily contested locations in the Mediterranean as Germany’s ...

March 1, 1942, was a deadly prelude to the Luftwaffe’s spring blitzkrieg on Malta, in the form of a devastating air raid on Floriana, leaving 20 people killed, 26 seriously injured and 23 slightly ...

The Luftwaffe in Sicily intensified its attacks on Malta in the first two months of 1942, so that the island would no longer serve as a base for attacks on Axis convoys ferrying troops and supplies to ...

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 ...

In the summer of 1942, George Beurling arrived over Malta with a reputation for flying alone, ignoring convention, and caring far more about the kill than the credit. In the brutal air war above the ...

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 ...

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 ...