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Re: 39th Beaufort Squadron in Malta.
Many missions were long-range, may be called 'shuttle', starting in Egypt/Libya and ended in Malta, and vice-versa, usually after some missions were flown from Malta near Sicily, Southern Italy or Corfu.
L9894 Bu Amud and Malta IV.42.
N1002 Bu Amud and Malta IV.42. Damaged 14.4.42.
N1094 II.42. Crashed on takeoff from LG.86 1.6.42. Ralph Barker, the future author of numerous books on aviation, was then wounded.
N1100 Bu Amud IV.42. Also flew in 22 Sqn.
N1166 Bu Amud and Malta IV.42. S/D by Bf 109 (FW Ludwig Reibel, I/JG 53, witnessed by Cant Z.506, 170a Squa) during attack on a convoy near Sicily on 14.4.42. Pilot Way and crew killed.
AW240 Luqa, Malta, 42. Lost with the crew from 217 Sqn 3.7.42.
DD951 LG.86 VI.42. Malta VI.42.
DD976 Malta VI.42. Lost during convoy attack near Palermo 23.6.42.
DD989 Crashed immediately after takeoff from LG.226 10.7.42.
DD993 From 217 to 39 Sqn. Damaged 3.7.42. Destroyed in air attack on Luqa, 11.10.42.
DE111 Gianaclis, late 42. Desert scheme.
AW290 Lost attacking a convoy near Corfu on August 24, 1942.
AW295 Listed in both 86 (with which arrived to Malta) and 39 Sqn. Lost VIII.42.
AW300 Malta VI.42.
AW349 Malta II.43. FTR from the attack on ships off Sicily on 24.2.43.
DD892 FTR from a patrol near Sicily/southern Italy on 11.4.43.
DD896 Malta, end of 1942, and V.43. DSG/EDSG /Azure.
DD898 X.42.-V.43.
DD906 Luqa, Malta IV-V.43. Torpedoed the last ship sunk by the RAF's Beaufort (Italian "Aquino") on 24.4.43.
DD910 I-II.43. FTR from the attack on the convoy off the Italian coast on 25.2.43.
DD928 I-III.43. FTR from the attack on the convoy near Sicily on 12.3.43.
DD934 I-III.43. FTR from the attack on naval convoy near Palermo 13.3.43.
DD936 Crashed into the sea near Sicily on an anti-ship patrol on May 16, 1943.
DD942 Protville II, Tunisia, VI.43.
After that Beaufighters, part of the first Coastal Strike Wing.
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