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Regia Aeronautica in azione nel 1943
10.07.1943 In mare, davanti alle coste siciliane, il cacciatorpediniere USS "Maddox" (211 morti) viene colpito e affondato da un attacco della 121° Squadriglia.
("Therefore, when Allied forces crosssed the narrows to launch Operation Husky on 10 July 1943, the dive-bomber response was entirely in the hands of the Italians ... The Regia Aeronautica had taken delivery of a bunch of Ju87Ds earlier in the year, but rather than re-equip their existing dive-bomber units, the 'Doras' had been used to form two new gruppi: 103° and 121° ... Still working up on Sardinia, the largely inexperienced crews were dispatched at once to southern Italy and Sicily to counter the invasion ...
A bomb from an unseen aircraft struck the destroyer's stern, blowing it apart 'in a gust of flame, smoke and debris'. In less than two minutes she had disappeared beneath the waves ... The surviving Doras of 121 Gruppo were to retire back to Sardina before the Sicilian campaign had run its 38-day course." Junkers Ju 87 Stukageschwader of North Africa and the Mediterranean, John Weal, Pag.81-82, Osprey Publishing, 1998)
16.08.1943 Il 16 agosto, Le Landing Ship Tank LST-414 (britannico) viene colpito e affondato da un attacco della 132° Gruppo della Regia Aeronautica.
("Over the nights of 15 and 16th August the Sardinian-based trimotors sank near Cani Island (Bizerte), the British 2750-ton Tank Landing Ship LST-414 (credited to Capitano Carlo Faggioni) and ten miles off Cape Bougaroun, the 2700-ton steamer Empiore Kestrel (attacked by Capitano Giuseppe Cimicchi). Also on the night of 16 August, the US 7126-ton freighter Benjamin Contee, sailing from Bone harbour for Oran ... was torpedoed and damaged by Tenente Vezio Terzi 16 miles north of Cape de Garde." Savoia-Marchetti S.79 Sparviero Torpedo-Bomber Units, Marco Mattioli, Mark Postlethwaite p. 75-76, Osprey Publishing, 2014)
04.09.1943 L' 4 settembre, quattro grandi navi da sbarco americane, vennero colpite e affondati nei pressi della Reggio di Calabria. Le navi vennero attaccate e colpite da voli di Re.2002 del 5º Stormo d'Assalto della Regia Aeronautica.
("On September 4, 1943, they inflicted serious casualties on Anglo-American troops by repeatedly strafing the invasion beaches at Villa San Giovanni and Reggio Calabria, then attacked U.S. landing craft, sinking four LCTs and damaging several others before being bounced by 30 Spitfires." The Axis Air Forces, Frank Joseph, Pag. 23, ABC-CLIO, 2011)
Edited by johnpasino - 14/3/2016, 06:18
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