"Buried Secrets of WWII"
Looks like the American Media are claiming that they saved Malta, next it'll be they won Agincourt for us 🤣!..(No need to comment, it's British humour).
The dialogue implies that the supplies on board SS Ohio that eventually reached Malta which at that point was on it's knees & on the verge of surrendering, was thanks to them. What utter baloney! The program is quite informative but maybe their researcher should've checked Wikipedia first with regard to a small convoy of 67 ships under British Command called Operation Pedestal.
Look up SS_Ohio_(1940) then the section referring to the above convoy.
Having a personal interest, my father serving in The Royal Navy on Malta at the time, as well as serving on H. M. S. Hood. (He featured a documentary "The Mighty Hood" made, I believe, by a Canadian company), I found it rankled just a touch.
The dialogue implies that the supplies on board SS Ohio that eventually reached Malta which at that point was on it's knees & on the verge of surrendering, was thanks to them. What utter baloney! The program is quite informative but maybe their researcher should've checked Wikipedia first with regard to a small convoy of 67 ships under British Command called Operation Pedestal.
Look up SS_Ohio_(1940) then the section referring to the above convoy.
Having a personal interest, my father serving in The Royal Navy on Malta at the time, as well as serving on H. M. S. Hood. (He featured a documentary "The Mighty Hood" made, I believe, by a Canadian company), I found it rankled just a touch.
- nibormail
- 28 feb 2025