EPILOGUE

‘Be pleased to inform their Lordships that the Italian fortress of Malta.’

Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean,

Signal to the Admiralty, 11 September 1943, on arrival of the

Quote from books by Philip Vella, Malta: Blitzed but not beaten, 1985, and by Winston Churchill The Second World War: Their Finest Hour 1949

Franklin Roosevelt scroll, dated 7 December 1943 – highly symbolic date as it falls exactly two years after Pearl Harbour – at the Malta National Library, Valletta

Ben Jinks’ enrolment in Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Selected photographs taken in 1941, BJb.NWM.HMC

August 1941. Taken Aug 15th Luqa, Malta’, BJb.NWM.HMC to join the Free French Forces, when he transitted through Malta. cowing.html

MALTA. 1941’, BJb.NWM.HMC

‘Refuelling Glen Martin, 6 May 1941’, BJb.NWM. HMC