Malta, Operation Bowery, May 9, 1942
My father, passed on. He delivered a Spitfire MK VC off HMS Eagle on May 9, 1942 and another in June. I will be visiting Malta to honor Dad's adventure and to research some flight details that have otherwise escaped me. I only have one day as part of a cruise. If it were possible, might there be a daily log for that day that showed the actual painted numbers on the sides of the rondel? Does anyone know who to contact? What airfields and museums would you visit? I do not think a standard tour would be in any way adequate. I also want to present a print of a painting I commissioned displaying the fly off from Eagle with Wasp and the convoy in the background to the local museum.
I am guessing that pilots with a WWII interest might know a lot more than I do about where detail records might be found? Were they kept local or removed to somewhere like the Imperial War Museum?
Fred
Amherst, NH