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 ...

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 ...

Tracer shells being fired against enemy bombers during a night air raid over Malta. In 1938, The Royal Malta Artillery (RMA) consisted of one regiment of 500 all ranks, commanded by a ...

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 ...