The Malta convoys were Allied supply convoys of the Second World War. The convoys took place during the Siege of Malta in the Mediterranean Theatre. Malta was a base from which British sea and air for
La Valletta Harbour
An Italian Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 during an attack
Three British cruisers during Operation Halberd
HMS Dido at anchor in the Firth of Forth
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
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