Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A watan Afrilu, an tilasta Hitler ya shiga tsakani a cikin Balkans wanda ya haifar da yakin da wannan sunan; an kuma san shi da mamayewar Jamus na Yugoslavia kuma ya hada da yakin Girka
Ka yi haƙuri. Yaƙin da ya biyo baya da kuma asarar da Jamus ta yi a cikin yakin Crete ya tabbatar wa Hitler cewa saukar da iska a bayan layin abokan gaba, ta amfani da 'yan bindiga, ba su da amfani sai dai idan an samu mamaki. Ya yarda cewa damar samun nasara a cikin irin wannan aiki na iska ba su da yawa; sojojin Jamus ba su sake yin irin wannan aiki ba. Wannan yana da mahimmancin sakamako ga Malta, kamar yadda ya nuna cewa tsibirin yana cikin haɗari ne kawai daga kewaye Axis. Lokacin da, a watan Yuni, Hitler ya kai farmaki ga Tarayyar Soviet a karkashin Operation Barbarossa, "Fliegerkorps X" ya tashi zuwa Gabas ta Gabas, kuma "Regia Aeronautica" ya bar ci gaba da yakin basasa mai tasiri a kan Malta a cikin watanni masu zuwa. Geisler, wanda ke jagorantar ragowar "Fliegerkorps X", zai iya dogaro ne kawai da jirgin sama mai sanya ma'adinai daga "Kampfgeschwader 4" (KG 4) da Ju 87s a cikin ayyukan dare. Matsalar samar da kayayyaki ba ta da kyau, an tilasta wa ƙananan sojojin Jamus su daina aiki a ranar 22 ga Afrilu, 1941. A farkon watan Mayu 1941, "Luftwaffe" ya tashi 1,465 bom, 1,144 mayakan da 132 reconnaissance manufa domin kawai 44 asarar. III./"Kampfgeschwader 30" (KG 30) da III./"Lehrgeschwader 1" (KG 1) sun tashi da dare a cikin watan Afrilu.