Название: Air Battle of Malta : Aircraft Losses and Crash Sites, 1940 - 1942
Автор: Anthony Rogers
Издательство: Greenhill Books
ISBN: 1784381888
Год: 2017
Страниц: 241
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), djvu
Размер: 10.1 MB
In the Second World War, Malta was besieged for nearly two and a half years, during which time a decisive air war was waged between Britain, Italy and Germany.
This is part of that story, from the early days in June 1940, when only a few Gladiator biplanes were available to combat Italian bombers and fighters, to the intervention of the Luftwaffe and the tenuous defense by outclassed Hurricanes, culminating in the desperate months of fighting following the arrival on Malta of the Spitfire in March 1942.
What became of the many aircraft destroyed over the Maltese Islands, and what was the fate of their pilots and crews?