United States Merchant Navy, SANTA ELIZA (SS), freighter (regiment/service)

A dramatic eye-witness account by Royal Navy Commander Anthony Kimmins of Operation 'Pedestal' (10 - 15 August 1942), the Royal Navy's bold and ambitious attempt to resupply the besieged island of Malta that narrowly succeeded in achieving its object despite heavy losses in ships and in lives. bomber flying through heavy naval anti-aircraft gun fire.

The engines on the Hurricane and a Vickers Supermarine Spitfire V are started up. Operation Pedestal was a tactical disaster, of a magnitude comparable to the German attack on convoy PQ-17.

Fade up to a daylight shot of the battleship HMS Rodney to the freighter SS Waimarama and, ahead of her in the same column, SS Dorset; in the distance are an unidentified destroyer and the aircraft carrier HMS Victorious, with HMS Furious just beyond. Some of the Italian cruisers were ordered to return to port and the rest were sent through the Straits of Messina to join the 8th Cruiser Division against the MG 3 decoy convoy in the eastern Mediterranean.

The Maltese and the Brits were not only starving and being bombed regularly, they were virtually out of aircraft, ammunition, and most of all fuel.

Desperate for food and fuel the relief convoy is within sight.

Two navy signallers send messages with their signalling lamps on HMS Nelson (?). Reconnaissance reports from Malta noted a smokescreen over Valletta, apparently to conceal two cruisers but this was later taken to mean that the British were hiding the departure of ships heading west towards the convoy.

A low-flying Axis bomber in the course of delivering an attack from the convoy's starboard side flies over an escorting destroyer shrouded entirely in smoke from her own guns and a merchant ship (either SS Brisbane Star or SS Melbourne Star). These shots, lifted from an earlier sequence, are repeated German Air Force 1939-1945 (theme) A shot-down Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive-bomber dives straight into the sea and makes a big splash; another Axis aircraft can be seen in the background. Two destroyers - the nearest an F Class fleet destroyer and the furthest a Hunt Class escort destroyer - manoeuvring at high speed. This is the kind of story you hear little about because the Allies, the winners, tend to disregard in their history books. Even so, the attack wrecked the flight deck of It had been intended that Force Z should return to Gibraltar when the Passing through minefields between Africa and Sicily around midnight, the convoy met eight Italian and seven German torpedo-boats which made fifteen attacks. A shot of Rear Admiral Burrough with a beard at Gibraltar (some edge flicker on the film). The master of the tanker Ohio, Dudley Mason Another shot of SS Brisbane Star astern of HMS Charybdis.

Military Aviation (theme) In mid-1942, the war was going badly for the Allies. Sacks containing dried food are lifted out of a ship's hold and sacks of flour are carried off a barge on the backs of Maltese stevedores. The resulting volume of radio traffic must have been very apparent to hostile listening stations,The passage of the Straits and 10 August were uneventful. Be the first to contribute! Watch Queue Queue START 00:00:00 Title 'Malta Convoy' and brief production credits. A view of the convoy on the port bow as a stick of bombs between the freighter SS Brisbane Star and the oil tanker SS Ohio, panning right to other ships in the convoy and fading to black. flying through bursting anti-aircraft shells in the distance. Admiral Axis planners lacked information about Allied plans but had fair knowledge of the Allied order of battle and the movement of Allied forces inside the Mediterranean, from the reports of At 17:00 a French aircraft reported two aircraft carriers, two battleships, two cruisers, fourteen destroyers and twelve merchant vessels about 50 nmi (93 km; 58 mi) north of Oran.Despite Axis submarines, three cruisers and twenty-six destroyers refuelled from the tankers British intelligence concluded that the convoy and its huge escort force had caused the Axis commanders to be apprehensive of a landing anywhere along the North African coast or on Crete.

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