The critical situation in the second half of the April 1942 blitz
After Malta was awarded the George Cross on April 15, 1942, the country saw Spitfire reinforcements, the targeting of anti-aircraft batteries, the bombing of th
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After Malta was awarded the George Cross on April 15, 1942, the country saw Spitfire reinforcements, the targeting of anti-aircraft batteries, the bombing of th
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These two countries can each lay claim to this military innovation independently. Here's What You Need to Remember: While the first reported incident of aircraft bombing ships was long thought to have happened during the Mexican Revolution, it turns out that the Greeks, who pioneered so much else in Western civilization, can also lay claim to that honor. In the annals of aerial warfare, the names of Greece and Mexico don’t usually appear very often. Yet Greece and Mexico were the first to use aircraft to bomb ships, a breakthrough that led to the Pearl Harbor raid—and to today’s airc...