Kammala wannan jumla: Ƙungiyar Axis ta yanke shawarar yin bam ko yunwa Malta zuwa biyayya, ta hanyar kai hari ga tashar jiragen ruwa, garuruwa, birane, da kuma jigilar kayayyaki na Allied wanda ke ba da tsibirin. Malta ta kasance daya daga cikin yankunan da aka fi kai hare-hare a lokacin yakin. "Luftwaffe" (Sojojin Sama na Jamus) da "Regia Aeronautica" (Sojojin Sama na Italiya) sun tashi sama da hare-haren bam 3,000, suna jefa tan 6,700 na bama-bamai a yankin Grand Harbour kadai, a cikin shekaru biyu a kokarin lalata tsaron RAF da tashar jiragen ruwa. Nasara zai ba da damar haɗin haɗin Jamus da Italiyanci na amphibious (
Operation Herkules) wanda sojojin Jamus suka tallafawa ("Fallschirmjäger"), amma wannan bai faru ba. A cikin taron, Allied convoys sun sami damar wadata da karfafa Malta, yayin da RAF ta kare sararin samaniyarta, kodayake tana da tsada sosai a kayan aiki da rayuka. A watan Nuwamba na shekarar 1942, rundunar Axis ta yi rashin nasara a karo na biyu na El Alamein, kuma Allies sun sauko da dakarun a Vichy Faransa Morocco da Algeria a karkashin Operation Torch. Axis sun karkatar da dakarunsu zuwa yakin Tunisia, kuma hare-haren da aka kai a Malta sun ragu da sauri. An kawo ƙarshen kewaye a watan Nuwamba 1942.