The Italian submarine, the Scirè, wasn't a large boat like some of the most advanced nuclear submarines in the ocean today. It only held a crew of 36, measured fewer than 200 feet in length, and was ...
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 ...
Had the Aquila been completed, it could have bolstered Italy’s Mediterranean operations by providing fleet air defense and strike capabilities. Not wanting to be viewed as the ‘sick man’ of the Axis ...