Siege of Malta (1940)
| Siege of Malta | |||||||
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| Part of the Mediterranean and Middle East Theatre of the Second World War | |||||||
 Service personnel and civilians clear up debris on a heavily bomb-damaged street in Valletta, Malta on 1 May 1942 |
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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Supported by:
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 Italy Germany
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
 Andrew Cunningham William Dobbie Keith Park Hugh Lloyd
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Hans Geisler Albert Kesselring Martin Harlinghausen Francesco Pricolo
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| Strength | |||||||
| 716 fighters over the course of the campaign | c. 2,000 aircraft over the course of the campaign | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 369 fighters (air) 64 fighters (ground) 1 Battleship 2 aircraft carriers 4 cruisers 19 destroyers 38 submarines 2,301 airmen killed or wounded 30,000 buildings destroyed or damaged 1,300 civilians killed |
357 German aircraft 175 Italian aircraft 72 percent of the Italian Navy transport fleet lost 23 percent of the Axis merchant fleet lost 2,304 merchant ships sunk 17,240 killed at sea ~50 German U-Boats (in entire MTO) Italian submarine losses ~16 |
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