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I've just got back from Malta.
So they were going to drop two divisions of paratroopers and gliders on to the southern hills, and expect them to strike out to take an airfield so that a third division could be flown in.
Was this really the plan? Having seen the terrain in Malta, it sounds like absolute insanity. The hills are covered by dry stone walls, enclosing small fields. You can drop paratroopers there, albeit with a high accident rate, but the gliders will literally all crash. It's no use landing the gliders at the airfields either - they were all covered by plentiful artillery.
Plus the RAF regained air superiority over the island just ten days after the invasion plan was approved. Flying in hundreds of transports and gliders against five squadrons of Spitfires? No wonder it was cancelled.