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84. IWM, Italian Series, Box 22, E2568, ‘Esigenza “C.3” per l’occupazione’, 25–7; see too Ciano, Diario, 619, entry for 12 May 1942 on the tides, and 619–20, entry for 13 May on Italian perception of Maltese defences.

85. TNA, AIR 23/5681, HQ RAF Malta, ‘Note on Fighter Strength’, 7 Oct 1942.

86. Air Ministry, Rise and Fall of the German Air Force, 135–7; Knox, Hitler’s Italian Allies, 99–100.

87. IWM, Italian Series, Box 22, E2568, ‘Esigenza “C.3” per l’occupazione’, 7–8; Budden, ‘Defending the Indefensible?’, 465–6; Austin, Malta and British Strategic Policy, 186–8. RAF losses in Tony Spooner, Supreme Gallantry: Malta’s Role in the Allied Victory, 1939–1945 (London: 1996), 7–8.

88. Elke Fröhlich (ed), Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels Sämltiche Fragmente, 4 vols (Munich: 1987), vol 2, pt 4, 58.

89. NAM, Air Raid Report Book, 1942–4. On injuries caused see 6 July 1942 (hitting bullets with a hammer), 9 July 1942 (playing with a rocket), 13 July 1942 (playing with an incendiary bomb), 28 July 1942 (child injured playing with an anti-personnel bomb). On the prohibitions, Box 14/2, ARP, HQ minute, 19 June 1943.

90. NAM, Box 14/14, memorandum, Supervisor of Shelter Construction, Nov 1942; Select Committee for Shelters to the President of the Council of Government, 3 Feb 1942, report on shelter provision, 3.

91. NAM, Box 25/6, Regional Protection Officer, Western Region, ‘Emergency Feeding Plan’, July 1943, 1–2; Lt. Gov.’s office to all RPOs, 13 Apr 1943.

92. NAM, Box 29/2, ‘Report from Select Committee on Shelters to the President of Council of Government’, 3 Feb 1942; Notes on Shelter Report, ‘following approved’ (n.d.).

93. NAM, ARP, Box 19/3, ‘Report on the Food Situation in Malta’, for the Lt. Gov., 22 June 1942, 2–4; on rabbits, ARP, Box 21/6, memorandum for the Lt. Gov., 18 June 1940. See too Austin, Malta and British Strategic Policy, 88–9.

94. Galea, Women of Malta, 115–16.

95. NAM, ARP, Box 19/3/A, Report on the Food Situation, 22 June 1942, 1, 4.

96. NAM, ARP, Box 19/3/B, minutes of second meeting of the Food and Distribution Board, 13 July 1942; Food Control Committee Report, 6 June 1942; Box 19/3/A, Report on the Food Situation, App 2, ‘Stock Table June 1 1942’, App 5, ‘Civilian Ration Scales’.

97. TNA, AIR 23/5715, minutes of coordinating committee of the Malta Defence Committee, 28 Sept 1942; minutes of Malta Defence Committee, 18 Nov 1942.

98. Galea, Women of Malta, 43–4, 87.

99. Austin, Malta and British Strategic Policy, 89.

100. Laddie Lucas, Malta: The Thorn in Rommel’s Side (London: 1993), 32.

101. Spooner, Supreme Gallantry, 11.

102. Ibid., 65–6.

103. NAM, ARP, Box 19/3/A, Report on the Food Situation, 22 June 1942, 5.

104. IWM, Italian Series, Box 22, E2567, ‘La situazione della base aero-navale di Malta’, 31 Oct 1942, 9.

105. TNA, AIR 23/5683, circular to Governor of Malta, ‘Scorched Earth’, 29 Jan 1942; ‘Memorandum of the Application by the Army of the Scorched Earth Policy’, Troop Commander, Malta, 15 Apr 1942; Malta Defence Committee, ‘Scorched Earth Policy’, June 1942, 1–2.

106. NAM, ARP, Box 25/6, Lt. Gov.’s office, ‘Civil Organisation in the Event of an Enemy Landing or Attempted Landing’, 7 May 1943, 2–4.

107. TNA, AIR 23/5715, Defence Committee, Malta, minutes of meeting, 27 Feb 1943; NAM, ARP, Box 14/2, ARP Department to all Superintendents, 6 Nov 1943.

108. TNA, AIR 2/7197, HQ British Air Force in France to the Air Ministry, 26 Apr 1940. See too Baldoli, Knapp, Forgotten Blitzes, 19–20.

109. TNA, AIR 75/8, Slessor papers, ‘Operation Haddock: Plan for Attack of Italian War Industry’, 2 June 1940.

110. TNA, AIR 35/325, Report for the Air Ministry, ‘Haddock Force – Historical Diary’, 20 June 1940, 2–9; Denis Richards, Royal Air Force 1939–1945: Vol 1: The Fight at Odds (London: 1974), 145–7.

111. Stephen Harvey, ‘The Italian War Effort and the Strategic Bombing of Italy’, History, 70 (1985), 38.

112. TNA, AIR 20/283, Air Ministry, Notes on bomb attacks, 20 Aug 1940.

113. CCO, Portal papers, Folder 9, Walter Monckton (MoI) to Portal, 8 Nov 1940.

114. TNA, AIR 23/7375, Air Intelligence, HQ RAF, Malta, to Malta Information Office, 28 Nov 1940.

115. TNA, AIR 23/7375, Air Ministry to C-in-C, Malta, 18 Jan 1941; HQ RAF Mediterranean to Luqa airbase, 13 Feb 1941; War Office, Deputy Director Military Intelligence to C-in-C, Malta, 21 Apr 1941.

116. TNA, AIR 2/7397, Air Ministry to HQ Middle East, 5 Sept 1941.