 "Welshman" made its third trip and arrived on 16 July and just before August the 10th Submarine Flotilla returned and the minesweepers with Harpoon had reduced the mine danger in the Malta approaches.Early in July Axis bombers dropped another of bombs, mainly on airfields, destroyed on the ground and damaged many others.The fighters flew about and lost out the Axis forces losing Losses forced the "Luftwaffe" and "Regia Aeronautica" to increase the number of fighter sorties per bomber and then to resort to hit and run attacks by fighter-bombers.