Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Ndị Axis kpebisiri ike ibuso Malta agha ma ọ bụ mee ka ha nọrọ agụụ ruo mgbe ha ga-edo onwe ha n'okpuru, site n'ịwakpo ọdụ ụgbọ mmiri ya, obodo nta ya, obodo ukwu ya, na ụgbọ mmiri ndị Allied na-enye agwaetiti ahụ. Malta bụ otu n'ime ebe ndị a kasị gbaa bọmbụ n'oge agha ahụ. "Luftwaffe" (German Air Force) na "Regia Aeronautica" (Italian Royal Air Force) gbara ngụkọta nke bọmbụ 3,000, na-atụ bọmbụ 6,700 tọn na mpaghara Grand Harbour naanị, n'ime afọ abụọ iji gbalịa ibibi ihe nchebe RAF na ọdụ ụgbọ mmiri. Ihe ịga nke ọma gaara eme ka o kwe omume ijikọta German-Italian amphibious landing (
Ọrụ Herkules) nke ndị agha ụgbọelu German ("Fallschirmjäger") kwadoro, mana nke a emeghị. Na ihe omume ahụ, ndị Allied convoys nwere ike ịnye ma wusie Malta ike, ebe RAF na-agbachitere ikuku ya, n'agbanyeghị na ọ na-efu nnukwu ihe na ndụ. N'ọnwa Nọvemba afọ 1942 ndị Axis meriri n'agha nke abụọ nke El Alamein, ndị Allies wee wụtuo ndị agha na Vichy French Morocco na Algeria n'okpuru Operation Torch. Ndị Axis kpaliri ndị agha ha n'agha nke Tunisia, ma belata mwakpo na Malta ngwa ngwa. N'ụzọ dị irè, nnọchibido ahụ kwụsịrị na November 1942.