"Excerpt from a rare WW2 Italian colour documentary. Italian and German air forces take off from their Sicilian base on a bombing mission over British-controlled Malta, with shots of the bombings and air battle against RAF Spitfire interceptors. Original soundtrack. No subtitles." (From www.webalice.it/romanoarchives - devoted to colour footage from WWII.) Malta is a small island in the Mediterranean and was never captured by the Axis forces.