I have posted the link to a historic record that says Wellingtons can operate up to 480 miles from Malta with 4,500lbs of bombs into this thread several times.And even if I did accept looney tunes could operate a Wellington with 4500 pounds bombs in the belly from those runways, (and I have seen NO RECORD of this happening.) the saner ones finally said with the loads they were given; "No way, Jose." I go with the historical record. This is not the legendary Jimmy Doolittle and his picked crews and the equally legendary B-25 Mitchell. This is the RAF.
Here it is again.
Why would the British official historian put this in his map if it wasn't true?
And while I'm at it here is a historical record that shows the airfields on Malta in the spring of 1941.
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