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==Premessa==

Un'operazioni "[[Club Run]]" per inviare velivoli da caccia verso Malta, iniziava con il caricamento a bordo della portaerei dei caccia destinati a Malta, trasporto che avveniva solitamente nei porti britannici o a [[Gibilterra]]. Quindi la portaerei sotto la scorta di un'apposita formazione navale, iniziava la navigazione nel [[Mar Mediterraneo|Mediterraneo]] occidentale fino a raggiungere la posizione entro il raggio di azione utile al decollo dei velivoli che avrebbero proseguito autonomamnte in volo in formazione verso Malta, preceduti da un n aereo guida (solitamente un idrovolante [[Short S.25 Sunderland|Short Sunderland]], fino all'atterragio in uno degli aeroporti maltesi.

deliveries required the short-range fighters to be loaded onto an aircraft carrier in Britain or at [[Gibraltar]] and taken to within flying range of Malta where they would be "flown off" and make their own way to Malta. There had been several earlier "Club Runs" but by this time, no suitable British carriers were available.''Ark Royal'' had been sunk, ''Argus'' was too small for the needed numbers, ''Furious'' was undergoing emergency repairs and the lifts on more modern, larger carriers were too small for Spitfires (land based aircraft whose wings could not be folded to conserve space).The situation was urgent, so, after a personal request from the British Prime Minister, [[Winston Churchill]] to the American President [[Franklin D Roosevelt]], the [[United States Navy|American]] aircraft carrier {{USS|Wasp|CV-7|6}} was loaned for a "Club Run".

deliveries required the short-range fighters to be loaded onto an aircraft carrier in Britain or at [[Gibraltar]] and taken to within flying range of Malta where they would be "flown off" and make their own way to Malta. There had been several earlier "Club Runs" but by this time, no suitable British carriers were available.''Ark Royal'' had been sunk, ''Argus'' was too small for the needed numbers, ''Furious'' was undergoing emergency repairs and the lifts on more modern, larger carriers were too small for Spitfires (land based aircraft whose wings could not be folded to conserve space).The situation was urgent, so, after a personal request from the British Prime Minister, [[Winston Churchill]] to the American President [[Franklin D Roosevelt]], the [[United States Navy|American]] aircraft carrier {{USS|Wasp|CV-7|6}} was loaned for a "Club Run".

==Operazioni==