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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/34749| Title: | Konvoj li bidel id-destin tad-dinja |
| Authors: | Chetcuti, Mary |
| Keywords: | Operation Pedestal, 1942 Malta -- History -- Siege, 1940-1943 World War, 1939-1945 -- Malta Operation Husky, 1943 Malta -- History -- British occupation, 1800-1964 Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 Santa Maria Convoy, 1942 Ledbury (Ship) Waimarama (Ship) Ohio (Ship) |
| Issue Date: | 2016-08-14 |
| Publisher: | Partit Laburista |
| Citation: | Chetcuti, Mary. (2016, August 14). Konvoj li bidel id-destin tad-dinja. Kullhadd, p. 19. |
| Abstract: | Fl-1942, it-truppi Germanizi avvanzaw fuq il-belt Libjana ta’ Tubruk u rebhuha minn taht idejn is-suldati Brittanici. Konsegwenza t’hekk, Malta giet l-unika fortizza Brittanika f’nofs il-Mediterran u ghalhekk fl-1942 zdiedu l-attakki mill-ajru. Minn 86 bastiment li ntbaghtu hawn Malta, waslu fil-Port il-Kbir madwar 55 biss u whud minnhom tant garrbu hsarat li tilfu hafna mill-merkanzija. Wiehed mil-protagonisti u eroj ta’ Operazzjoni Pedestal, il-Kaptan Roger Hill ta’ HMS Ledbury, jirrakkonta kif raw it-tanker MS Waimarama jghib quddiemhom minhabba l-attakki mill-ajruplani Germanizi. Fl-1943 inghata bidu ghall-Operazzjoni Husky, l-invazjoni ta’ Sqallija mit-truppi alleati li telqu minn Malta. Minn Sqallija l-alleati setghu jaqsmu ghall-Italja u jkomplu javvanzaw fuq it-truppi Germanizi. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/34749 |
| Appears in Collections: | Melitensia Works - ERCWHMlt |
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