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Italian u boats ww2. Over 40000 pages on the officers the boats technology and the Allied efforts to counter the U-boat threat. The Gruppe Monsun or Monsoon Group was a force of German U-boats that operated in the Pacific and Indian Oceans during World War II. The prototype was designed on the pattern of six German-built E-boats captured from the Yugoslav Navy in 1941.

During the first half of WW2 there was close co-operation between the submarine arms of the German and Italian navies and there are three separate but connected elements to the story of the Italian U-Boats. In actual fact the greater part of her fleet that was to take to the seas in 1939 was barely four years old. The wreck of a World War 2 Nazi submarine has been found washed up on the coast of Argentina this week which experts believe to be the remnants of a German U-boat.

The poor seaworthiness of the Italian-designed MAS boats of World War I and early World War II led its navy to build its own version of E-boats the CRDA 60 t type classed MS Motosilurante. The Regia Marina in 1939 had far more submarines than Germany 116 107 for other sources versus 72 and still more than the IJN about 70 in 1941 so topping the Axis. In fact it was an Italian submarine which had been shifted to the Germans after 1943 and then to the Japanese after the German surrender which fired the last shots of World War II using her AA battery against American bombers while in port in Japan.

SS Nova Scotia sailed from Massawa in Italian East Africa modern day Eritrea on 15 November 1942 carrying 765 Italian POWs 134 British and South African guards and 118 crew. Within a matter of days the first U-boats were sailing from the Norwegian port of Bergen while others were sent to patrol as far south as the Canary and Cape Verde Islands off. Ad Hall of Fame boat dealer with a full line of Cobalt Boats offering salesservice storage.

During the conflict 88 submarines. First seven large Italian submarines were based in Bordeaux from where in conjunction with the Kriegsmarine they undertook anti-shipping patrols in the Atlantic. Well help you find or build the Cobalt Boat of your dreams call us today to get started.

After 1944 the U-boats. The average sinking of Allied shipping by Nazi U-boats dropped to one tenth of the target figure after May 1943. This fact must be recalled before going further.