Fighters over Malta: Gladiators and Hurricanes 1940-1942

• All known combat claims and losses
  
  
• Many personal accounts and memories of the battle
  
  
• Illustrated with new and rarely seen photographs

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Brian Cull has been writing Second World War aviation history for the past twenty-five years and has more than twenty-five titles to his credit, many of which have been highly acclaimed. For Fonthill Media, he is the author of First of the Few: 5 June-9 July 1940, The Diary of Sonny Ormrod DFC: Malta Fighter Ace (with Frederick Galea), 249 at Malta: RAF’s Top-Scoring Fighter Squadron (with Frederick Galea), Fighters Over the Aegean: Hurricanes Over Crete, Spitfires Over Kos, Beaufighters Over the Aegean, 1943-44 and Battle for the Channel: The First Month of the Battle of Britain 10 July-10 August 1940.

Frederick Galea has been Malta’s National War Museum Association’s honorary secretary and newsletter editor for the last twenty years. He is also an accomplished aviation author in his own right and has written several books dealing with the air war at Malta. Additionally, he has co-authored a number of books with Brian.

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• Acknowledgements 5
• Preamble: Italy 1940—The Friend of Yesteryear, the Foe of Today 8
  
  
• I. June 1940—Gladiators into Action 11
• II. More Hurricanes Arrive 33
• III. The Tragedy of Operation ‘White’ 56
• IV. The Germans Arrive in Sicily 68
• V. Messerschmitts Supreme 105
• VI. Hurricanes Regain the Advantage 152
• VII. Hurricane Summer 192
• VIII. The Return of the Luftwaffe 232
• IX. Against the Odds 275
• X. Spitfires Join Battle 321
• XI. Hurricane Swan Song 358
• Not Quite the End: Second-Line Duties 401
  
  
• Endnotes 408
• Appendix I: Roll of Honour 1940–42 424
• Appendix II: Combat Claims & Credits 227
• Appendix III: Oblt Joachim Müncheberg’s 7./JG26—Scourge of the Hurricanes 439
• Appendix IV: Gladiators 441
• Appendix V: Hurricanes for Malta 445
• Appendix VI: 418 Flight 456
• Appendix VII: The Takoradi Route 460
• Appendix VIII: The Takoradi Route1941–1942 Hurricane Deliveries 464
• Appendix IX: Malta’s Hurricanes (Serial Numbers) 466
• Appendix X: The Reconstruction of
• Hurricane IIA Z3055 Hurricane IIC Z3571 470
  
  
• Bibliography 473
• Index of Personnel 475