The Impact of Malta on the campaign in North Africa

Hi all,

I found this annex in Admiral Cunningham's "A Sailor's Odyssey" and thought it might be of interest:



Annex II consists of a commentary which I'll try to post up tomorrow.

Cunningham also makes some interesting remarks about the challenge the arrival of the Luftwaffe in Sicily in early 1941 created for attempts to support the British army forward through Benghazi. Food for thought for all the "on to Tripoli" arguments.

Regards

Tom

 

Bringing this up in the hope that you can post the annex

All the best

Andreas

 

Hi Andreas,

Apologies, it seems I returned the book to the library without copying the second Annex.

Regard

Tom

 

Appendix II

 

Excellent, merci!

All the best

Andreas

 

Thanks (both) - very interesting.

 

The chart intrigued me, as IMHO you rarely see such documents. The Annex II is of interest too. Notably for the 13th passage and the second sentence states:

The book 'A Sailor's Odyssey' was first published in 1951, long before Allied code breaking was in the public domain; so how did the author's helper Captain A. A. Adair get this information?

Added: I fully accept after the Italian exit from being a German ally debriefing of Italians and access to their records may offer an explanation too.

 

They also had a lot of captured German records.

All the best

Andreas