Setting the stage When Italy declared war on the Western allies, on June 10th, 1940,…
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In the summer of 1942, the British organized the largest resupply mission to Malta, known…
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Why did the Italians not occupy Malta in the summer of 1940? This is a…
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In June 1942, the C.S.I.R. was nominally disbanded and with the arrival of new fresh…
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On June 22, 1941, Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. For…
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Design and appearance The end of the 1920s and early 1930s saw the Regia Marina…
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Immediately after the Cunningham-De Courten agreement, signed on the 23rd of September 1943, the Italian…
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Context of the mission After the Allied landings of Operation Torch, the ports in French…
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In January 1942, when plans for the invasion of Malta (Operation C3) were beginning to…
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The Battle of Crete was a bloody military affair that saw on one side the…