Brian Cull News Today

There were a number of winners from the Shannonside region at the recent Garda National Youth Awards last Saturday.

Pembroke Petawawa District Community Foundation (PPDCF) is delighted to announce $347,000 in funding to support 12 projects in the area courtesy of the Government of Canadas Community Services Recovery Fund.

At around 5.09pm on April 1, 1942, a formation of 70 enemy aircraft was reported to be approaching the Maltese islands heading for the Grand Harbour and Ħal Far

Charles Debono looks back at the crash of Pilot Officer Walter ‘Pips’ Cripps on April 26, 1942. On April 26, 1942, Air Officer Commanding Malta, Air Vice Marshal Hugh Lloyd was advised that an intercept of Luftwaffe Enigma traffic indicated that some units of Fliegerkorps II were preparing to leave Sicily. Meanwhile, an air raid warning was sounded at about 2.28pm, where a total of 55 Junkers Ju88s and 15 Junkers Ju87 Stukas appeared over Malta and attacked Ta’ Qali, Luqa, the Grand Harbo...

On the evening of April 29, 1941, a formation of nine Ju 88s bombers of III/ (Kampf)/Lehrgeschwader 1 took off from Sicily. Their orders were to attack cruisers and destroyers spotted in Malta’s Grand Harbour by reconnaissance aircraft previously that day. German intelligence was spot on. The previous evening, the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla, consisting of six destroyers, had entered the Grand Harbour to join the light cruiser Gloucester in port. The bombers were escorted by BF 109s Messerschmit...