By Pierre Kosmidis Photos and videos © www.ww2wrecks.com The Malta Aviation Museum’s Hawker Hurricane Mk IIa Z3055 was recovered from the seabed off Wied iz-Zurrieq (Hamrija Bank) during the summer months of 1995. It had been ditched there on the 4th of July 1941, by Sgt/Pilot Thomas Hackston following engine seizure. The wreckage of the submerged aircraft had […]
By Pierre Kosmidis Photos and videos © www.ww2wrecks.com Spitfire Mk.IX, EN199 Mary Rose, on display at the Malta Aviation Museum, was flown in the North Africa by Wing Commander R. Berry and Squadron Leader C. F. Gray, Commanding Officer No.81 Squadron. EN199 took part in the Allied Operation Torch landings and the subsequent Tunisian campaign and fought […]
By Pierre Kosmidis Photos and videos © www.ww2wrecks.com On 1st April 1942 between 17:10 & 18:58, Unteroffizier Hans Pilz of 5./JG 3 was shot down by antiaircraft fire in his Messerschmitt Bf 109F-4/Trop ”Black 11” (Wr.Nr. 8668) off Luqa road, environs of Paola in Malta. German records note that Unteroffizier Pilz was last heard from when […]
By Pierre Kosmidis Photos by Anthony Rogers Acclaimed author Anthony Rogers painstakingly researched all WW2 aircraft crash sites in Malta and wrote a detailed account of the circumstances of their loss, as well as the fate of their crews. The Siege of Malta was a military campaign in the Mediterranean Theatre of the Second World War. […]