US Navy assists the Royal Navy
13th April 1942: USS Wasp joins Royal Navy in Mediterranean to fly off Spitfires to besieged island of Malta
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The need to reinforce Malta was now becoming desperate. So much so that Churchill made a personal appeal to Roosevelt for the assistance of a US Navy carrier to make the journey into the Mediter…
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