Invasion of Malta What Forces?

Anyone know what Italian ground forces were to be used and their id's also anyone know how the Germans were to transport Z.b.V66 Panzer ubit consisting of Pz1Fs,Pz11js,T-34's and Kv2's!!! to the island this unit is mentioned in Speilbergers Beutepanzer,Panzertruppen by Tom Jentz and in the jjf book Western Front a Panzer Lehr officers memoirs. I'd love to know how the hell they were going to transport the Kv2s!!! they would had made the defenders s**t themselves

 

Here´s something though only hypothetical:

http://www.geocities.com/kumbayaaa/itroyobarmymaltavii1942.html

http://www.regiamarina.net/arsenals/ships_it/obs_crui_us.htm

The whole seaborne element of the operation was dependant on ships of the Italian Navy, which had suffered already during the war at the hands of the Royal Navy, at places like Cape Matapan and Cape Spartivento.
Hitler was right to call off the operation as coded messages sent by enigma were being intercepted at Bletchley Park, which revealed the plans of operation Hercules and the garrison on Malta was reinforced on June 16th 1942. (?!)

http://www.eagle19.freeserve.co.uk/shelved.htm

 

Here´s some more :

http://stonebooks.com/history/felix.shtml

Following a number of detailed reconnaissance missions by officers wearing civilian clothing and studying the Rock from Spanish soil as well as seaward perspectives, the Wehrmacht in the summer and autumn of 1940 drew up detailed plans for Operation Felix, the assault on Gibraltar.

Under the overall command of Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau, the German plan called for two corps to move into Spain in the middle of January 1941 with the consent of Generalissimo Francisco Franco. General Rudolf Schmidt's XXXIX Corps would cover the flank of the Gibraltar assault against any British intervention: the 16th Motorized Division would concentrate in the vicinity of Valladolid, the 16th Panzer Division around Caceres, and the SS Totenkopf Division at Sevilla.

General Ludwig Kuebler's XLIX Corps would control the actual attack on the Rock. The assault forces would comprise the Grossdeutschland Infantry Regiment, the 98th Regiment of the 1st Mountain Division, 26 medium and heavy artillery battalions, three observation battalions, three engineer battalions, two smoke battalions, a detachment of 150 Brandenburgers, and up to 150 radio-controlled midget tanks ("Goliaths") packed with high explosives.

The Brandenburgers -- disguised as sailors abandoning a sinking ship -- intended to land inside British defenses in small boats and clear the way for the assault troops.

By 10 March 1941 Felix had been amended to become Operation Felix-Heinrich, for which German troops would be withdrawn from the USSR to capture Gibraltar when the approximate line Kiev-Smolensk-Opotschka was reached. Because the campaign in the Soviet Union did not succeed as planned, nor did Franco alter his position, even this amended version of the operation was not implemented.

Operation Isabella was conceived in April 1941, originally due to Hitler's fear of British landings on the Iberian peninsula. Rather than an Axis invasion of Spain, Isabella was designed as a measure by which German troops would advance into Spain to support the Franco regime and defeat the British expeditionary force.

Later the name changed to:

Operation Ilona

Operation Gisela

Operation Nurnberg

 

Many thanks for the information yours ross.hackett@ntlworld.com

 

I Think your a bit off course the forces you quote are for Operation Felix the invasion of Gibraltar anyway thankyou for your help