Malta Emptied for Invasion of Sicily
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Malta Emptied for Invasion of Sicily
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That was something else to behold. We were living in Malta,
this place called Sliema and across the little bay was,
Valletta, the capital of Malta. You could walk across that mile
of water and not get your feet wet, on all the ships they had in
there. And they had aircraft carriers stuck in little corners
and different bays and all this stuff. We were flying the night
before and I remember sitting in the tail and whatever they were
doing to this little island Pantelleria you could, I could
look at my watch and every minute there was an explosion.
They were shelling it with navy ships.
The next morning, woke us up about six o'clock,
"Get up on the roof, you gotta see this!"
And it was a small D-Day, I've never seen so
many ships moving at once.
And when you went down to the
waterfront there was nothing there, they were all gone.
That's when they invaded Sicily.
They started the night before and what
we saw was them going in, in the morning.
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