Joachim Müncheberg was a German Luftwaffe fighter pilot during World War II and an ace credited with 135 air victories. The majority of his victories were claimed over the Western Front, with 33 claims over the Eastern Front. Of his 102 aerial victories achieved over the Western Allies, 46 were against Supermarine Spitfire fighters.
Bf 109 Es, similar to those flown by Müncheberg over France and Belgium.
Müncheberg (left) and General (later field marshal) Erwin Rommel in North Africa, 1941.
The siege of Malta in World War II was a military campaign in the Mediterranean theatre. 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.
Service personnel and civilians clear bombing debris from Kingsway in Valletta in 1942
The armed trawler HMS Coral within a bomb-damaged Dry Dock No 3 during World War II
An Italian Savoia-Marchetti S.M.79 bomber
Italian bombing of the Grand Harbor