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Hawker Hurricane IIA "Z3055" of No.46 RAF Squadron, exhibited at the Malta Aviation Museum, took off from Safi strip just before daybreak on 4 July 1941. For some unknown reason, the pilot, Sgt. Thomas Hackston, crashed into the sea (his body was never found). The Merlin XX powered aircraft, one of forty-two Hurricanes delivered to Malta (Operation Rocket) had flown off the carrier H.M.S. Ark Royal, barely a month earlier. The fighter was located by diver David Schembri, at a depth of 40 meters only a short distance from the coast off Wied Iz-Zurrieq in 1993. It was salvaged two years later. The Hawker Hurricane is a British single-seat fighter aircraft that was designed and predominantly built by Hawker Aircraft Ltd. for the Royal Air Force. Although largely overshadowed by the Supermarine Spitfire, the aircraft became renowned during the Battle of Britain, accounting for the majority of the RAF's air victories in the battle, and served in all the major theatres of the Second World War. In August 1940 Hurricanes of No.261 Squadron were flown off the carrier H.M.S. Argus to relieve the hard pressed Sea Gladiators in the defence of Malta against attacks by the Italian Air Force, and later Luftwaffe. These were among the first Hurricanes to operate in the Mediterranean theatre, and joined a handful of Hurricanes which had been flown out to Malta from Britain the previous month via France and North Africa. During the Air Battle of Malta, between June 1940 and December 1942, the fighters of the Royal Air Force claimed it shot down some 863 aircraft of the Regia Aeronautica and the Luftwaffe. According to the RAF, this was accomplished for the loss of 289 Spitfires and Hurricanes in action, and some 844 aircraft of all types lost to all causes in the air and on the ground. The Luftwaffe alone claimed some 446 Allied aircraft of all types shot down. |
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