Video: Matthew Mirabelli Most of the passengers were RAF personnel heading home on leave from the Suez Canal Zone in Egypt after a stopover in Malta. Douglas Bennison did not make the trip ...

The Falkland Islands offer RAF fast jet pilots unparalleled freedom ... Originally 1435 Flight was formed in 1941 as the Malta Night Fighter Unit (MNFU), operating Hawker Hurricane Mk.II fighters.

A gale blew the airplane into a quarry in 1947 and the RAF wrote it off. After being vandalized, the Spitfire ended up with Malta’s Air Scouts (a branch of the Boy Scouts) and later with the ...

The RAF lost 1,023 planes. The tide of the war started to turn. Britain was now a launch pad for future attacks on Germany. Malta was a key strategic Allied base in World War Two. Axis forces laid ...