Malta suffers heaviest air raid yet

21 March 1942: The besieged island is hit yet again as more Spitfires are flown in to reinforce the air defences.

Bomb damage to the motor transport depot of 32nd Company, Royal Army Service Corps at Floriana, 20 March 1942.

The Luftwaffe and the Regia Aeronautica Italiana now began stepping up their bombing attacks on British occupied Malta.