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Old 10th Nov 2012, 14:25
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Herod

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Watched it again a couple of weeks ago. Some rubbish air-to-air stuff, but it's worth watching just for the real footage of the "Ohio" coming in. What I still can't get my head round is how Malta wasn't taken. Its strategic importance was obvious, and the Axis had contol of Sicily. Catania to Malta is about 100nm as the crow flies, and the air defence was paltry compared with what the RAF was putting up during the Battle of Britain.
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