Comments by "HaJo Os." (@hajoos.8360) on "RN Conte di Cavour - Guide 222" video.
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@paoloviti6156 Dear Paolo ... Vittorio Veneto was not damaged by a 16-inch shell but by a swordfish-torpedo. The Italian air-force was too busy with it's duties in Greece, and the Luftwaffe-reconnaisance failed. The major aspect were the losses at the British air-raid on Taranto, where the half Italian fleet was set out of service. It was a strategic mistake, because Taranto is geographically too exposed. Something like Brindisi would have been better, but the Italian Naval High-Command, after the airraid on Taranto, shifted the fleet to La Spezia, Naples & Genua, where they were more or less useless. Another aspect was the miserable torpedo protection on Italian BBs (installed/constructed around 1935). Only one small swordfish-torpedo could effect severe damage on the BBs. Compare it with German BBs. When Scharnhorst was sunk at the North-Cape the Brits needed a minimum of 14 torpedo-hits to sink Scharnhorst, means Scharnhorst was better protected than Musashi or Yamato, which were hit by aerial-Torpedos and not as Scharnhorst by ship-torpedos. Scharnhorst's weak point was the armament above the main belt, where DoY could hit the propulsion room to slow down Scharnhorst's speed, in spite of the flat silhouette of Scharnhorst-class ships.
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@paoloviti6156 Italy is very young as a state or nation. So, the naval tradition is related to former sovereign cities, comparable to Germany as a federal patchwork rug & a part of the German I. Reich. So, except the brave Italian submarine-commanders, no one wanted to die for Italy, which was getting known during the Spanish civil war, when the Italian detachments to Spain were totally useless. Even Hitler made a mistake, when he sent troups (an entire army) with Rommel to Africa to support 20 or 22 Italian divisions against 3 British.... i am not so informed about the education in the Regina Marina, but in Germany, the Naval High-Command was influenced too much by politics. The braves were sent home, and the cowards & the dud shells were promoted. The Italians accepted, when the US Navy positioned the exile-mafiosi in the bow of their landing crafts in Sicily as the new order. The dream of an Italian Empire remained very shortly. But still better than the Brits, who still believe they have an empire as we can read every day on this channel.
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