1.7 million tonnes.
Thats (off the top of my head) the amount of Italian merchant shipping sunk during WW2 by allied forces.
How much of that is because of Malta (not just forces based in Malta but forcing convoys to route away from Malta closer to other forces.
How much war material is that. What would that war material have done elsewhere.
Theres an opinion that Malta could have been let go. I don't feel it would have released major forces for service elsewhere.
Thats (off the top of my head) the amount of Italian merchant shipping sunk during WW2 by allied forces.
How much of that is because of Malta (not just forces based in Malta but forcing convoys to route away from Malta closer to other forces.
How much war material is that. What would that war material have done elsewhere.
Theres an opinion that Malta could have been let go. I don't feel it would have released major forces for service elsewhere.