Bomb image from TMI article
In an article on The Malta Independent, Albert Galea tells the story of when in the 1950s a huge WW2 bomb was found just outside St. John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta, and by “luck” (read more in the article), responsibility on carting it away (without blowing up the Co-cathedral nor anyone close enough) ended up in the lap of the commander of the Mediterranean Fleet Clearance Diving Team Lieutenant Philip Arthur White.
Read this interesting story about some of the less known characters in post-WW2 Malta who cleared off what the Germans and Italians had thrown at us.
