Malta, Rommel and North Africa 1940-43
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Airborn Invasion of Malta
The priority of the eastern front remained a powerful argument as they prepared their great offensive in southern russia. Only the creeks marine, which wanted the policy of defeating britain first, supported ronald's ambitions. After a renewed lift offer bomba bo fensive against the air fields and the main harbor of the latter all five ships in a convoy in march were sunk,. The troops and civilian population faced starvation. A reinforcement of 60 spit fires flown off the aircraft carrier us. S wasp saved the island. Hitler had ad big reservations about airborn troops after crete, and before the invasion of crete. And he had absolutely been emphatic that this was one of
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