<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" id="mw7g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="World War II">World War II</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grand_Harbour" id="mw7w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Grand Harbour">Battle of Grand Harbour</a>, British forces on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta" id="mw8A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Malta">Malta</a> destroy an attack by the Italian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decima_Flottiglia_MAS" id="mw8Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Decima Flottiglia MAS">Decima Flottiglia MAS</a>. Fort <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Elmo_Bridge" id="mw8g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="St Elmo Bridge">St Elmo Bridge</a> covering the harbour is demolished in the process.<sup about="#mwt32" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-5"}}' id="cite_ref-5" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./July_26#cite_note-5" id="mw8w" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 5;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw9A">[5]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-5"><cite about="#mwt29" class="citation journal cs1" id="CITEREFCaruana1991">Caruana, J (1991). <a class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/44892205" id="mwByA" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Decima Flotilla Decimated"</a>. <i id="mwByE">Warship International</i>. <b id="mwByI">28</b> (2). International Naval Research Organization: 178–186. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./JSTOR_(identifier)" id="mwByM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a><span id="mwByQ" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/44892205" id="mwByU" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">44892205</a>.</cite><span about="#mwt29" class="Z3988" id="mwByY" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Warship+International&amp;rft.atitle=Decima+Flotilla+Decimated&amp;rft.volume=28&amp;rft.issue=2&amp;rft.pages=178-186&amp;rft.date=1991&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F44892205%23id-name%3DJSTOR&amp;rft.aulast=Caruana&amp;rft.aufirst=J&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F44892205&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJuly+26"></span></span>