Did the tanker, SS Ohio, deliver much-needed petrol to Malta in Operation Pedestal?
The generally accepted answer is that, yes, SS Ohio, one of only five of the 14 merchant ships to survive Operation Pedestal – and the only tanker – did bring much-needed petrol to Malta in August 1942. For instance: The highly-esteemed author Stephen Roskill in The War At Sea, Vol II, The Period of Balance, […]
Did two American make-do gunners on SS Ohio in Operation Pedestal turn the tide of World War II?
Before I read that, I was clearly under the misapprehension that events such as the Red Army and the Battle of Stalingrad and the Battle of Kursk, Operation Torch and the 1st and 2nd Battles of Alamein, the D-Day landings, the RAF and USAAF’s destruction of Germany’s industries, winning the Battle of the Atlantic et […]