German code-name for plan for invasion of Malta during the Second World War
See also: Siege of Malta (World War II)
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Secure an uninterrupted flow of supplies across the Mediterranean
Date
Planned for mid-July 1942
Outcome
Cancelled in November 1942
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Mediterranean and Middle East Theatre
Adriatic
North Africa
East Africa
Mediterranean Sea
Gibraltar
Malta
Bahrain
Balkans
Yugoslavia
Iraq
Syria–Lebanon
Palestine
Iran
Sicily
Italian mainland
Dodecanese
Corsica
Dragoon
Alpes-Maritimes
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Battle of the Mediterranean
1940
Vado
Malta
Club Run¹
Espero ¹²
Mers-el-Kébir
Calabria¹²
Cape Spada
Hurry ¹
Cape Passero¹
MB8 ¹
Taranto
Otranto²
White ¹
Cape Spartivento¹
1941
Excess ¹
Convoy AN 14¹
Genoa
Abstention
Souda Bay
Matapan
Tarigo ²
Crete ²
Substance ¹
Grand Harbour
Halberd ¹
Duisburg ²
Bon²
1st Sirte¹²
Alexandria
1942
2nd Sirte¹
Calendar ¹
Bowery ¹
Albumen
Harpoon ¹
Vigorous ¹
Pedestal ¹
Agreement
Torch
Stoneage ¹
Toulon
Portcullis ¹
Skerki²
Olterra¹
Algiers¹
1943
Zuwarah
Cigno ²
Campobasso ²
Pantelleria
Sicily
Gela
Scylla ²
Messina convoy²
Bastia
Strait of Bonifacio
Dodecanese
Rhodes
Leros
Kos
Cape Bougaroun¹
1944
Ist
Santorini
Symi
Port Cros
La Ciotat
1945
Ligurian Sea ¹
Allied convoys
Malta convoys
U-boat Campaign
¹ — Involved an Allied convoy or delivery mission
² — Involved an Axis convoy or delivery mission
Operation Herkules (German: Unternehmen Herkules; Italian: Operazione C3) was the German code-name given to an abortive plan for the invasion of Malta during the Second World War. Through air and sea landings, the Italians and Germans hoped to eliminate Malta as a British air and naval base and secure an uninterrupted flow of supplies across the Mediterranean Sea to Axis forces in Libya and Egypt.
Extensive preparations were made for the invasion but the success of other Axis operations – including the Battle of Gazala (26 May to 21 June 1942), the Axis capture of Tobruk on 21 June and Operation Aïda, the pursuit of the Allies into Egypt – led to Herkules being postponed and then cancelled in November 1942.
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