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Valletta Ops Room Restoration Underway

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  1. GRW

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    Good. As long as they do something with it.
    "Years of neglect, theft and vandalism are being reversed at Valletta’s Combined Operations Room, Malta’s nerve centre during World War II.
    The heritage NGO Fondazzjoni Wirt Artna recently embarked on the delicate challenge of restoring this rock-hewn room to its original configuration.
    Built in the early stages of the air battle for Malta in 1940, within the underground War Headquarters complex beneath the Upper Barrakka, the Combined Operations Room was the place from which all the defensive and offensive naval and military action in and from Malta was directed.
    “The restoration of the Combined Ops Room is a mammoth task and will take over a year to complete – we hope to have our first visitors by the end of 2018,” FWA chairman Mario Farrugia said, welcoming the financial injection of €280,000 from the Malta Airport Foundation.
    The Combined Operations Room was the place from which all the defensive and offensive naval and military action in and from Malta was directed during World War II.
    “Some of the rooms are to be completely reconstructed based on authentic documentation, while the main room will be conserved in its post-war 1969 configuration when it was in use by Nato.”"
    http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20170129/local/wwii-operations-centre-being-restored-after-years-of-neglect.637864#.WJDWO49sJ5s.twitter
     
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