British Malta During World War Two
... Valletta, the Lascaris War Rooms were one of Malta’s best kept secrets from World War Two. The War Rooms consisted of a network of underground tunnels and chambers that housed Great Britain’s War Headquarters in Malta. The British had the capability of reading both Italian codes as well as German me ...
... Valletta, the Lascaris War Rooms were one of Malta’s best kept secrets from World War Two. The War Rooms consisted of a network of underground tunnels and chambers that housed Great Britain’s War Headquarters in Malta. The British had the capability of reading both Italian codes as well as German me ...
December 2004 - Dr. Harold C. Deutsch WWII History Roundtable
... for an easy task. The Italians were not going to fight, and the Allied High Command doubted whether the Germans could transfer sufficient troops into Italy to impede an Allied drive to the north. But there was a severe shock in store: Italy was no ‘soft underbelly’ geographically, and despite easy s ...
... for an easy task. The Italians were not going to fight, and the Allied High Command doubted whether the Germans could transfer sufficient troops into Italy to impede an Allied drive to the north. But there was a severe shock in store: Italy was no ‘soft underbelly’ geographically, and despite easy s ...
Regia Marina
The Royal Navy, in Italian: Regia Marina [ˈrɛdʒa maˈrina], was the navy of the Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia) from 1861 to 1946. In 1946, with the birth of the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), the Royal Navy changed its name to Military Navy (Marina Militare).