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World War 2 From Above. S1 E1 ∙ The Siege of Malta ∙ 60 min. The fate of the island of Malta hung by a thread during the war. Using drones, experts explore the defences of Malta to understand how the island survived.
From June 1940 to November 1942, the fight for the control of the strategically important island of the British Crown Colony of Malta pitted the air and naval forces of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany against the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Royal Navy .
Feb 17, 2011 · First siege. In 1940, in the early months of World War Two, Malta had been the centrepiece of Britain's strategic naval position in the Mediterranean for almost a century and a half.
Feb 17, 2011 · By the following summer the siege was lifted as the Axis powers faced defeat in North Africa. The people of Malta had shown extreme bravery in the face of severe threat and hardship.
When World War II began in 1939, Malta was a British possession, and an important post linking Gibraltar in the west to Egypt and the Suez Canal in the east. It also could serve as a stepping stone—or a significant barrier—between Sicily and the Italian colony of Libya in North Africa.
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Early on the day after Italy’s declaration of war, 25 Savoia Marchetti SM-79 bombers of the Regia Aeronautica, escorted by 12 Macchi C.200 fighters, came in from Sicily to bomb the Maltese capital of Valletta and the installations around Grand Harbor.
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One pilot, Royal Canadian Air Force flight lieutenant George Beurling, who came to be known as “The Knight of Malta”, shot down 27 Axis planes during a two week stretch in July of 1942. From a threatened island, Malta was transformed into a base for offensive operations against the Axis.
