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To: C19fan

Didn’t they mostly get sunk at Taranto by Fairy Swordfish?


2 posted on 02/12/2017 5:28:33 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

Littorio was knocked out for 4 months. Two older battleships for much longer.


4 posted on 02/12/2017 5:30:26 AM PST by C19fan
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To: FreedomPoster

One sunk, two heavily damaged, along with many other Italian losses.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Taranto

And it’s *Fairey* Swordfish.


5 posted on 02/12/2017 5:32:48 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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They survived Taranto. They were turned over to the Allies when Italy agreed to an armistice in September, 1943. The Roma was sunk by the Germans using a Fritz X radio controlled glide bomb with the loss of 1200 men en route to surrender at Malta, her two sisters survived the war and were scrapped in the early 1950’s.


8 posted on 02/12/2017 5:38:57 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Psephomancers for Hillary!)
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