Word: maltas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When that danger was past, Gort was sent to Gibraltar, where attack again appeared to be impending. It was from Gibraltar that he was moved to beleaguered Malta. A nonsmoker, an austere man, Gort is nevertheless a sherry connoisseur. Regretfully he left behind him at Gib a decorated sherry cask presented by his staff...
...week Malta had had its 30th raid. All the air force the British had was four Gladiator planes. One fell. The others, nicknamed "Faith," "Hope" and "Charity," carried on, fighting daily against 10-to-1 odds. Chief defense was the anti-aircraft guns. Even when the British acquired some Hurricane planes, air defense was not much. But the Italians were bad shots and frequently too sporting to be dangerous enemies...
With Sword and Prayer. The British carrier Illustrious had limped into Malta after a hot time in the narrow passage off Sicily. Stukas pounced on her, turned their destruction loose on harbor shipping and dockyards. German planes filled the blue Mediterranean sky. The sporting days of war were over...
...native Royal Malta Artillery and the Royal Artillery, raised a curtain of flame that was fearful to behold. Even Moscow never lifted such an ack-ack barrage. Captured German pilots admitted that they had been unnerved by it. It probably saved the island from devastation, saved many a British warship and transport as she lay in the harbors or squatted helplessly in drydock...
...Maltese with the George Cross. The citation: for gallant endurance. Chief Justice Borg accepted the medal and deposited it under a plinth in the main square opposite an old palace of the Grand Masters of the Knights of St. John. Over the plinth the King's Own Malta Regiment took up solemn sentry duty. Stoically the Maltese burrowed into their ancient island. Grimly, for the power and the glory and for Christendom, the island of the Knights fought...