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Hello. And thank you for listening to The History of World War II podcast, episode

350 Operation Primrose. Last time we saw subs like the upholder carry on against enemy

troop ships heading to North Africa. And every victory was needed as Rommel was causing

havoc on his way to Alexandria to take Admiral Cuttingham's main base away. It would have

been nice if the British Royal Navy and RAF could have matched the sub-actions in the

skies and the water surface, but no matter the defenders and citizens of Malta were about

to get a reprieve of sorts, not that they knew this was coming.

Or did they know of Hitler's decision not to invade Malta as he was saving his all for

Soviet Russia. But a guess could have been hazarded by the authorities on Malta, given the

information that they were given by a man who only made sense of his life when he was

up in the air, that is Adrian Warburton or Warby as he was called. Throughout the month

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