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The Malta Conference was held from January 30 to February 3, 1945 between President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom on the island of Malta.
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.
The Armistice of Malta, or referred to as the Additional Conditions for the Armistice with Italy in Italy and the Instrument of Surrender of Italy by the Allies, was a written agreement which was signed on 29 September 1943 by Italy and the Allies.
Operation Bowery was an Anglo-American operation during the Second World War to deliver fighter aircraft to Malta, an operation known informally as a Club Run. Spitfires were needed to replace the remaining obsolete Hurricane fighters, to defend Malta from Axis air raids.
Ceres (1942) — scheme for safe unloading and dispersal of Pedestal cargoes at Malta; Perpetual (1941) — delivery of aircraft to Malta; Picket (1942) — delivery of 16 Spitfires to Malta from HMS Eagle and Argus; Pilgrim (1941) — contingency plan to seize Canary Islands; Pinpoint (1942) — delivery run to Malta by HMS Welshman
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 forces could attack ships carrying supplies from Europe to Italian Libya.
The Axis plan to invade Malta had its origin in Italian military studies conducted during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War in the mid-1930s. By 1938, Comando Supremo, the Italian army general staff, had estimated the amount of sea transport it would require to move military forces into North Africa, and identified the seizure of Malta as a prerequisite.
Over the span of two months, a total of four United States Army Air Forces pilots failed to return while on mission from Ta' Lambert. [ 2 ] The prospects of extending the use of the aerodrome through the winter posed its own set of challenges, notably rain which would have made the area too muddy for practical use.