UXB Malta: Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal 1940-44: The Most Bombed Place on Earth
By S A M Hudson
5/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
As the Regia Aeronautica and the Luftwaffe unleashed their full might against the island of Malta, the civilian population was in the eye of the storm. Faced with the terror of the unexploded bomb, the Maltese people looked for help to the Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal Section, who dealt with all unexploded bombs, outside of airfields and the RN dockyard, across an area the size of Greater London. Based on official wartime records and personal memoirs, the extraordinary tale unfolds of the challenges they faced — as the enemy employed every possible weapon in a relentless bombing campaign: 3,000 raids in two years. Through violent winter storms and blazing summer heat, despite interrupted sleep and meagre rations, they battled to reach, excavate and render safe thousands of unexploded bombs. Day after day, and in 1942 hour after hour — through constant air raids — they approached live bomb after live bomb, mindful that it could explode at any moment. In the words of one of their number they were ‘just doing a job’.
Related to UXB Malta
Related ebooks
Ship-Busters: British Torpedo-Bombers in World War II Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Launch Pad UK: Britain and the Cuban Missile Crisis Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDaylight Bombing Operations, 1939–1942 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Desert Fire: The Diary of a Cold War Gunner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5V Weapons Hunt: Defeating German Secret Weapons Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAllies at Dieppe: 4 Commando and the US Rangers Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Combat Over Korea Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Pathfinder's War: An Extraordinary Tale of Surviving Over 100 Bomber Operations Against All Odds Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsArmored Attack 1944: U.S. Army Tank Combat in the European Theater from D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Few: Preparation for the Battle of Britain Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Secret Naval Investigator: The Battle Against Hitler's Secret Underwater Weapons Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Stations Of Coastal Command: Then And Now Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Last British Battleship: HMS Vanguard, 1946–1960 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Pathfinder's Story: The Life and Death of Flight Lieutenant Jack Mossop DFC* DFM Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMalta At Bay: An Eye-Witness Account Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFighter Commands Air War, 1941: RAF Circus Operations and Fighter Sweeps Against the Luftwaffe Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBattlefield Bombers: Deep Sea Attack Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe 508Th Connection Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFighter! Fighter! Corkscrew Port!: Vivid Memories of Bomber Aircrew in World War Two Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Peenemünde Raid: The Night of 17–18 August 1943 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Waves of Hate: Naval Atrocities of the Second World War Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Rude Mechanicals: An Account of Tank Maturity during the Second World War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Spitfire Dive-Bombers Versus the V2: Fighter Command's Battle with Hitler's Mobile Missiles Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFlak in World War II Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Hidden Threat: Mines and Minesweeping Reserve in WWI Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFlying for Freedom: The Allied Air Forces in the RAF 1939-45 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Meteor from the Cockpit: Britain's First Jet Fighter Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAn Alien Sky: The Story of One Man's Remarkable Adventure in Bomber Command During the Second World War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Battleship Builders: Constructing and Arming British Capital Ships Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe V-Weapons: Then and Now Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Wars & Military For You
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unacknowledged: An Expose of the World's Greatest Secret Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Kingdom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Daily Creativity Journal Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/577 Days of February: Living and Dying in Ukraine, Told by the Nation’s Own Journalists Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The God Delusion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Making of the Atomic Bomb Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Art of War: The Definitive Interpretation of Sun Tzu's Classic Book of Strategy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Doctors From Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Washington: The Indispensable Man Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unit 731: Testimony Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for UXB Malta
1 rating0 reviews