In 1940, in the Mediterranean theater of World War II—the Battle of the Strait of Otranto took place. As a diversionary action during the Battle of Taranto, the Royal Navy ambushed the Italian Royal Navy, impacting Italian convoys crucial for operations in Albania and Greece…
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Cunningham a REAR ADMIRAL!!!???
What on earth are you doing getting that wrong? In reality Cunningham was a rear admiral from 1932 to 1936.
If you can't get basic things like that right then you need to be a great deal more careful in your research.
Easy when you have radar and the enemy doesn t
Thanks for condensing down the strategic tempo. Typical history sources usually chop everything up into bite size actions. Great for writers getting paid by the word, but it costs readers.
I bet Fabrizzi's crew settled up with Ramb's crew after they got back
Minor quibble: if Force X was commanded by a vice admiral, how could overall commander Cunningham have been a rear admiral (lower rank)? But that's how you list them.
Hmmm . . . nothing "arguable" about the relative importance of Taranto and this convoy destruction. Taranto was huge.
The audio mixing on this one sounds weird as well, almost like it was degraded then upgraded by interpolation after. It's crunchy, the audio spectrum is narrow, it just sounds like I'm listening on cheap headphones. I love your vids, but you gotta look at the audio settings / algo / whatever
Deadly for some of the Brits had the torps from Fabrizi were launched.
Like Hitler, Mussolini was the thorn in the Italian Navy's side. He gave the high command the directive that the battleships were never to be placed in a position of danger. The fleet was also hindered by lack of air support and radar, as well as night fighting and actual combat experience; and while the navy did produce good commanders, never of the go hard likes of Cunningham and Collins in HMAS SYDNEY. The Italians have invariably been cast as cowards, but the actions of many of its ships and submarines as well as the force that flew against the UK in the Battle of Britain shows that by and large they were no different than other countries. Also, there was discomfit that they were fighting former allies. And the Hugh Command, very much pawns of Mussolini, were overall very poor compared to their enemies.
I would like to see the battle of Raate road during the Winter war.
Pridham Whippel? Don't you get the slight feeling he's British?
See the Italian Naval Museum at the bottom of the Adriatic.
Not a battle that gets mentioned, excellent presentation.
There are many similar stories to be had with these small Italian torpedo boat convoys, for example the Tarigo convoy, the Battle of Crete with the Sagittario convoy, the Lupo convoy, the Veloce convoy, Battle of Skerki Bank…
Can you do the battle of cape matapan next?
Have you ever considered doing a vid about, James Graham, the 1st Marquis of Montrose. And the Kings Capt General of Scotland, during the War of the 3 kingdoms.
The Italian Navy commited a despicable and cowardly crime when the submarine Delfino torpidoed and sunk the Royal Hellenic Navy cruiser Elli, the 15 August 1940, in time of peace! Elli was in the island of Tinos participating in the celebrations of the Feast of Mother of God. Nine petty officers and sailors were killed and 24 were wounded. The same submarine attempted to torpedo the passenger ships MV Elsi and MV Esperos anchored in the port! You don't get more coward and ridiculous than that. Payday came the 28 October 1940 with the declaration of the greco-italian war.
Your videos are always so well done. I love that it's not just random footage from the war, but actual details and maps with ship movements.
Does anyone know what happened to the Captain of the Ramb III at the court martial?
Isnt that the modern italian navy flag? 2:22
I’d love to see you cover some naval battles in the American revolution
Thanks!
Nice video. No wonder I had never heard of this before since the raid on Taranto was just around this time.
You should do some videos on the Italian front of the Austro-Prussian War. Especially the Naval Battles would be very interesting and basically never covered similar themed channels.
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