The Battle of Calabria, fought on July 9, 1940, was a key naval engagement between the British Mediterranean Fleet and the ...
Italy’s Regia Marina was one of the busiest navies of the interwar period. Four old battleships were rebuilt so completely that they barely resembled their original configuration. This helped Italy ...
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The Most Extraordinary Battleship Feat of WW2
In July 1940, Admiral Andrew Cunningham led a daring assault with HMS Warspite and a powerful Royal Navy fleet into waters near Italy, aiming to cripple the freshly mobilized Italian Navy before it ...
Great Britain’s fleet at Gibraltar welcomed the assignment last week of escorting three supply ships bound for Malta through what Italy still calls Mare Nostrum (“Our Sea”) but which cartoonists now ...
On Dec. 19, 1941, in the pre-dawn darkness, six Italian commandos slipped into Alexandria harbor in Egypt. British troops and sailors had spotted an Italian reconnaissance plane days earlier, and ...
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