World War II Operation Pedestal-Malta (Full Documentary) 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 Operation Pedestal (Italian: Battaglia di Mezzo Agosto, Battle of mid-August), known in Malta as Il-Konvoj ta' Santa Marija (Santa Maria Convoy), was a British operation to carry supplies to the island of Malta in August 1942, during the Second World War. Malta was a base from which British ships, submarines and aircraft attacked Axis convoys to Libya, during the North African Campaign (1940–1943). From 1940 to 1942, the Axis

In 1942, the German war machine unleashed a brutal 154-day campaign of air raids on the Allied stronghold of Malta. Locals remember it as a period marked with hunger and need. WWII Battles in Color: El Alamein premieres tonight at 8 PM. | Smithsonian Channel Aviation Nation

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