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Battlefront Malta

Bringing history to life

  • Blog
    • Preparing for the Worst: Malta’s Scorched Earth Policy
    • A Hero on Two Wheels: The Bicycle in Malta G.C.
    • The RNAS & Fleet Air Arm’s Forgotten Chapel.
    • ‘Talkies’ : Cinema at War
    • Blue Label, Calder’s, and Cisk: Beer & Malta at War
    • The Kerkennah Islands Operation
    • Turning the Tide: A Sicilian Gun For Valletta
    • Preserving Trauma: Re-enactment and Freud
    • Malta is Invaded. Now what?
    • Defending Lord Gort: The San Anton Palace Defence Plan of 1943
  • Malta’s Units
    • British Infantry Regiments in Malta 1939-1945
      • 2nd Royal Irish Fusiliers in Malta 
      • The Cheshire Regiment and the Vickers MG in Malta GC
      • Malta, Leros, Lag: the 4th Buffs, Part I
      • Malta, Leros, Lag: the 4th Buffs, Part II
      • 8th (Ardwick) Manchesters
      • The Hampshires’ Defence of Malta
    • K.O.M.R: The King’s Own Malta Regiment
    • RASC 32 GT Coy
    • Malta’s Anti Aircraft Defence
      • LAA: Light Anti-Aircraft
      • The Height & Range Finder
      • The Predictor
      • “The Mysteries of Anti-Aircraft Defence”: Firing the HAA Guns
      • HAA Operations and Strategy
      • Nocturnal Raids
    • ‘Basuto’: A lost Chapter in Malta’s War
    • MFRE Bomb Disposal
    • The George Cross awarded to Malta
    • Prelude to Husky: the Malta Brigade Trains in Egypt
    • Minesweeping, Mines, and Malta: Contact
      • Minesweeping, Mines, and Malta: The Deadly Seabed
      • Royal Navy Bomb & Mine Disposal
  • Axis
    • Fallschirmjäger
      • The Origins of the Fallschirmjäger
      • Uniforms and equipment of the Fallschirmjäger
    • Wehrmacht Medical Services
    • Luftwaffe Oxygen Masks
    • Schnellboote operations around Malta and their losses
    • What happened to the enemy airmen?
    • Harbour Raider – JU87 D1 2051
  • Passive Defence
    • Malta’s Anti-Gas Precautions (1934-1940)
    • Malta Police Force
    • Shelter Construction in Malta 1935-1942
    • A Logistical Marvel: The Coordination of Supplies for Malta
      • Part I: COSUP and the Pools
      • Part II: Logistics
      • Part III: COSUP and UNSTO Take Over
      • The Grand Harbour Wharfs
  • Our Work
    • Local Events
      • Difiza: il-Gudja fil-Gwerra – Codename ASIA
      • Sabaton Movie – History Rocks
      • Il-Wasla tal-George Cross fil-Marsa
    • International Events
      • Garrison Artillery Volunteers 2025
      • Operation Market Garden 2024
      • Malta to Leros: 1943-2023
      • Operation Husky 1943-2023 – in the footsteps of 231 Brigade
      • Operation Overlord
    • Videos
    • Filming Experience
    • Our Film – Merkur
  • Who are we?
    • About Us
    • WW2 reenactment in Malta
    • Contact Us
  • Collecting War
    • Podcast
    • Collectors’ Corner
      • Collecting Rust
      • Collecting Photos: A Modern Problem
    • Collecting War: A Historical Theory
  • Publications
    • A Logistical Marvel: The Coordination of Supplies for Malta
    • Malta, Leros, Oflag: A Wartime Log by Lieut. C.J.H. Morgan
    • Malta, Leros, Lag: The 4th Buffs before and after the Aegean
    • Bibliography
  • Box Project
    • What is a Pillbox?
    • Listing of Historic Defence Sites and Pillboxes

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