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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hachiko, post: 4307038, member: 23115&quot;]Over the 10 days from June 11-21, 1940, these three Gladiators (really six aircraft used interchangeably) and their dedicated volunteer pilots formed Malta’s only defense against enemy bombing raids. Later in June a few Hurricane fighters bolstered the island’s defense; but still the old Gladiators had to take to the air. &quot;You would take off in a Gladiator with some of the few Hurricanes we had on the island and head up towards the Italians,&quot; Flight Lieutenant James Pickering remembered many years later. &quot;Sometimes there would be a hundred plus—clouds of bombers and fighters swarming above. And then, in a moment, you would be on your own—everything else had overtaken you.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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