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		The Italian Navy during World War II The Second World War was a dramatic defeat for Italy and consequently for the Italian Navy.
		Italians lacked totally from this point of view, all their airplanes were controlled by th Air Force which imposed to not build any carrier.
		Italians countered the convoy with light units from Sicily, supported by air attacks and a cruiser division, near the island of Pantelleria with success this time: just 2 freighters survived of attacks and delivered their supplies to Malta.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/9226/ww2.html (3039 words)

	ITALIAN NAVY CONTROLS THE SHIPS BUT DOESN’T ARREST TERRORIST SUSPECTS - analisi difesa - anno 2 nr 20 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Italian Navy ships deployed in the Arabic Sea participate in the operations of control of merchant ships in transit to check loaded goods and crew, but they are not authorized to arrest people suspected of relation with Al Quaeda and the international terrorism.
		The Italian ships, in particular the Frigate Zeffiro and the patroller Aviere, have the order to interrogate via radio the merchant ships in transit to verify the load, shipping and ports of origin and destination and they are authorized to board on the ships suspected also using force if reject to collaborate.
		It is therefore, Italian government to not permit the Navy to arrest eventual suspected members of Al Quaeda, probably to avoid that the possible stop of some representative of the terroristic organization by the Italian troops could determine terroristic attacks against Italy.
	www.analisidifesa.com /numero20/eng/ef-mmicontrolloeng.htm (399 words)

	Italian Navy
		The flagship of the Italian Navy is the aircraft carrier MM Garibaldi, built by Fincantieri of Genoa and commissioned in 1985.
		Joining this program, Italian Navy new Submarines will be created with the U-212A Project, based on the original U-212 German Project but modified in some important details such as the operating depth and the implementation of several italian technologies.
		The SH-3D as been in service with the Italian Navy for over 30 years and is due for replacement by the EH 101 and NH-90.
	homepage.eircom.net /~steven/crustmov.htm (2546 words)

	Italy - Naval Rank Flags
		Italian Navy site this is the "Insegna del Capo di Stato Maggiore della Marina" (Chief-of-Staff of Navy).
		Italian Navy site) and one flag is different: "Insegna di Comando per Cap.
		Italian Navy site this is the "Guidone per comandante superiore navale di grado inferiore a Cap.
	www.1uptravel.com /flag/flags/it~rank.html (607 words)

	Italian Navy, Zara, Fiume, Pola, Artigeliere, Aviere, Trento
		The Italian army is also powerful enough to conquer British and French Somaliland and pose a threat to the Sudan and Kenya.
		is torpedoed and sunk by Italian submarine “Bagnolini”.
		The three Italian cruisers are driven off in a long-range gunnery duel with the Royal Navy's 5.25in "Dido" class cruisers.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsItalianNavy.htm (6231 words)

	Naval Institute Proceedings Magazine: World Navies in Review, by A. D. Baker III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Finland: The 1,450-person strong navy is to be reorganized for the second time in five years during 1998, with the fleet to be combined into a single rapid reaction force, while Finnish Army Coastal Artillery and Coastal Infantry forces are to be integrated within the navy.
		On the plus side, the French Navy is accelerating the design of its next nuclear-powered submarine class so that the first may be included in the 2001 budget, but that same unit is still not planned to enter service until 2010.
		The Italian Navy, however, plans to buy only two ships, and the British and French partners continue to squabble over many of the features of what promises to be an obsolescent design if and when the first unit is completed around 2005.
	www.usni.org /Proceedings/Articles98/PRObakereurope98.htm (4303 words)

	Bioacoustics - Italian Navy
		Within the European Nature Conservation Year 1995, the Italian Navy set up a cooperative research program with Universities and other institutions to give logistic support and to apply its technologies to the study and protection of the marine environment.
		In 1998 an agreement among the Italian Navy and the University of Pavia was signed to facilitate the development of cooperative projects and the sharing of data and methodologies.
		Now the Italian Navy is one of the most important partner of the SOLMAR Project and is among the very first navies that adopt a policy to protect marine mammals against military sonars and other potentially harmful activities.
	www.unipv.it /webcib/res_itnavy_uk.html (622 words)

	Royal Navy: Battle of Cape Matapan 1941
		The Italian commander, Admiral Iachino, planned to annihilate the British cruisers involving a pincer movement with the battleship Vittorio Veneto.
		Cunningham knew he had no chance of catching the Italian battleship unless she was hit again, so he ordered at final air strike at dusk.
		Chastened by its defeat the Italian Navy did not intervene in the evacuations of Greece and Crete later in 1941, but much heavy fighting lay ahead until the battle for the Mediterranean was finally won in 1943.
	www.royal-navy.mod.uk /static/pages/5798.html (764 words)

	Italian Navy 'let Immigrants Drown'
		The Italian navy was accused last night of doing little to help shipwreck victims as more than 50 immigrants were feared drowned when their boat capsized in heavy seas off the southern coast of Sicily.
		Mr Giacalone told the news agency Ansa that the Elide had asked the Italian navy fisheries protection vessel Cassiopea to take over the towing when it arrived on the scene, some 60 miles south of the island of Lampedusa.
		Mr Giacalone said the fishermen had asked the navy to send a doctor by helicopter to assist one of the injured immigrants, only to be told to proceed to Lampedusa, where there was a hospital.
	www.buzzle.com /editorials/3-9-2002-12766.asp (485 words)

	Italian Navy 5th Helicopter Group - 30th Anniversary and Open-House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Italian Navy 5th Helicopter Group was celebrated on October 28th at Maristaeli (Stazione Elicotteri della Marina) Luni, near La Spezia.
		The static display was completed by two aircraft of neighbour Italian Coast Guard base: a Piaggio P.166-DL3 of the 1st Nucleo Aereo and an AB 412 in service with 1st Sezione Volo Elicotteri, both units being resident at the same Luni airport.
		In the picture: Agusta/Bell AB 212ASW 7-21 of Italian Navy 5th Helicopter Group, at Maristaeli Luni on October 28, 1999, wearing the special symbol for the 30th anniversary of the unit.
	www.fly-net.org /aeromedia/luni99gb.html (312 words)

	Italy, Sicily, Mussolini, Fascist, Somaliland, Abyssinia, League of Nations, Albania, Pact of Steel, Axis, Rome
		German and Italian aircraft sink and damage a number of warships and transports in the invasion area including a US destroyer on the 10th.
		The Italian surrender is signed in Sicily on the 3rd, but not announced until the 8th to coincide with the main Allied landing at Salerno, and in the forlorn hope of preventing the Germans from taking over the country.
		On the 12th the arrested Benito Mussolini is rescued from his Italian captors in the Abruzzi Mountains by German Col Otto Skorzeny's paratroops and flown to Germany.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsItaly.htm (4016 words)

	Italian Navy performs an archaeological underwater survey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Ministry of War and the Ministry of Culture in the Italian government came to an agreement for collaboration in the search of underwater archaeological sites, shipwrecks, the final agreement is planned to be signed in mid may of 1998.
		The plan is to use all the navy capabilities, including the most advance techniques in sonars, ROV, submarines, etc., to make a complete catalog of the underwater patrimony of Italy, a country that, only in surface, compiles more than 50% of the officially catalogued World's Artistic Patrimony.
		The main reason why this project of collaboration started is the discovery of a bronze statue of Eolo by a fisherman in Italian waters near Sicily in March of 1998.
	www.diveturkey.com /news/italian.htm (266 words)

	AllRefer.com - Taranto, Italy (Italian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		As a part of the kingdom of Naples the city was strongly fortified and was held as a principality by various lords.
		Much of the Italian navy was caught and destroyed there.
		Of note in Taranto are the cathedral (11th–12th cent., with a baroque facade), a castle (originally Byzantine, rebuilt in 1480), and the national museum (with a fine collection of Greek pottery).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/T/Taranto.html (284 words)

	Sea Devils: Italian Navy Commandos in World War II (Classics of Naval Literature) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		From the detailed insights given into this formidable Italian fighting unit as well as first hand accountss into the political and logistical challenges that the Italian commandos faced during it's involvement in the war, the reader can finally learn about the many episodes of Italian victories which never made it into English print.
		Those who belittled Italian military contributions during WWII should read this book it goes a long way into exploding mistruths/misconceptions which many not privy to war texts in other languages may have had regarding the Italian Military.
		For those interested in a deeper understanding of Italian fighting units/commandos and Italian acts of War valour this book finally redresses many inaccuracies found in far too many poorly researched stereotypically biased essays released in the English language that replaced and omitted important historical facts due to an agenda of propaganda.
	www.freeglossary.com /p:155750072X (415 words)

	The Italian Navy
		Italians developed also a new kind of very little fast torpedo boat called MAS, very useful in the close spaces of Adriatic.
		It was a MAS (exactly MAS 15) which had the best Italian success of war, sinking the Sankt Iztvan battleship the night of June 10, 1918.
		To support land fronts, Italian Navy built a large number of armed pontoons which were employed as heavy artillery (some mounted 381mm guns).
	members.fortunecity.com /mikaelxii/Italy/navy/Navy.html (234 words)

	THE NEW SUBMARINES CLASS "U-21A" OF THE ITALIAN NAVY - analisi difesa - anno 1 nr 8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The resistant covering will be realized using a special non-magnetic austenitic steel (Steel 1.3964 type) of HDW/Thyssen: the prechosen material will definitely defeat the magnetic signal of the boat, stopped with the customary levels of resistance and elasticity.
		The increment of the maximum operative quota demanded by Italian part has been kept, increasing the plate thickness of the resistant “shell ": the consequent increase of the total weight of the structure has been compensated with a greater volume of the hull itself, realized by means of the redefinition of the principal dimensions.
		As regarding the shapes of careen, have opted for a solution with a few openings, to eliminate the "hydrofoil noise" (weak point of the "Sauro").
	www.analisidifesa.com /numero8/eng/inuovisottomarini4eng.htm (174 words)

	GN Online: Italian Navy ship docks at Bahrain's Mina Salman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		An Italian Navy ship, taking part in the Iraq post-war operations, has docked at Bahrain's Mina Salman port for a five-day courtesy call, the Italian Ambassador told Gulf News yesterday.
		The San Giusto, a Landing Platform Ship, is part of the Italian military contingent operating in the Gulf as a component of Operation Ancient Babylon, for the stabilisation and reconstruction of Iraq, Ambassador Angelo La Marte said.
		"The overall Italian contribution to the reconstruction process in Iraq is mainly focused on the rehabilitation of essential public services and emergencies," said La Marte.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=97769 (141 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The title is chiefly composed of photos of the ships and equipment of the Italian Navy during WW2.
		The volume starts with a listing of all of the Italian Navy’s warships, in service as well as building, arranged by class on June 10, 1940, followed by the listings of the squadron composition and Area of Operations (AO).
		The volume concludes with an index and glossary of Italian warship and mercantile abbreviations.
	www.steelnavy.com /NaviEMarinaiWW2.htm (904 words)

	USATODAY.com - Pope kicks off first papal trip in Bari (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Hundreds of police patrolled the streets, coastal waters were closed to private vessels and the Italian navy ship San Giusto was anchored nearby, officials said.
		The Italian media had been speculating that Benedict would use his first pilgrimage in Italy to weigh in on a pressing national issue: upcoming referendums on voiding parts of a new law that restricts assisted fertility treatment in Italy.
		Italian bishops have urged voters to stay home so the referendums fail to reach quorum.
	www.usatoday.com /news/religion/2005-05-29-pope-trip_x.htm (1021 words)

	C-MAP - Read News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Italian Navy decided to use the CM-93/3 electronic chart database after a comprehensive evaluation of all commercial and military electronic chart databases available.
		The Italian Navy is currently reading CM-93/3 electronic charts using dKart Navigator, the famous navigation software designed and distributed by Morintech Navigation.
		In addition to the Italian Navy, the CM-93 database is also used in a variety of ECDIS systems onboard naval vessels.
	www.c-map.no /read_news.asp?NewsID=30 (313 words)

	Italian Navy UnOfficial Homepage
		The former Royal Insignia of Savoy Kings was replaced, since November 9, 1947, by this one that represents the four ancient Italian maritime republics Venice, Genoa, Amalfi and Pisa it is surmounted by the "Corona Rostrata" the Republican Crown with rostrums.
		The insignia is put in the middle of the national flag and it differs from the one of the Italian merchant Navy because it has the Corona Rostrata and the S.Marco lion has the book closed, a sword in the hand and the tail raised up.
		The Seaman Prayer is read on every Italian Navy ship during navigation at sunset when the flag is lowered.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/9226/navy.html (580 words)

	Italian Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Regia Marina - Royal Navy of the Kingdom of Italy (1861 - 1946)
		Marina Militare - Navy of the Italian Republic (1946 - today)
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Italian_Navy (89 words)

	Prudent
		Struck from the Navy List I November 1945, she was transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal 22 September 1947.
		In 1949 the ship was acquired by the Italian Navy and renamed Elbano.
		Since that time, into 1970, she has continued to serve the Italian Navy under that name.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/p12/prudent.htm (258 words)

	EH101 ready for service with the Italian Navy
		The first Italian Navy EH101 in the Heliborne Early Warning (HEW) configuration is making its public debut at Le Bourget 2003.
		The Italian Navy has to date ordered 20 aircraft with 8 configured for Anti-Submarine Warfare (AS W)/Anti-Surface Warfare (AsuW), 4 for Airborne Early Warning and 8 for amphibious operations.
		The contract for the last batch of 4 aircraft is expected to be awarded at the end of 2003 bringing the Italian Navy order for EH101 to 24.
	www.defence-data.com /paris2003/pagep117.htm (350 words)

	Italian Navy in World War II (Contributions in Military Studies, No 149) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		This revisionist history convincingly argues that the Regia Marina Italiana (the Royal Italian Navy) has been neglected and maligned in assessments of its contributions to the Axis effort in World War II.
		After all, Italy was the major Axis player in the Mediterranean, and it was the Italian navy and air force, with only sporadic help from their German ally, that stymied the British navy and air force for most of the thirty-nine months that Italy was a belligerent.
		It was the Royal Italian Navy that provided the many convoys that kept the Axis war effort in Africa alive by repeatedly braving attack by aircraft, submarine, and surface vessels.
	www.discovermilitaryhistory.com /military3/031328797XAMUS263407.shtml (196 words)

	Italian Navy
		The Durand De La Penne Class destroyers were built by Fincantieri for the Italian Navy.
		They were taken over for the Italian Navy in 1992.
		There both used in the italian navy and on the aircraft carrier and assauslt ships main use for these helicopters is for transportation for militarty troops and material.
	homepage.eircom.net /~war/crustmov.htm (931 words)

	Mediterranean, RN, Fleet, Barham, Cape Bon, Battle, Sirte, George, Cross, ABC, Cunningham, Alexandria, Malta, Convoys, ...
		From airfields in Crete as well as Libya, the Luftwaffe and Italian Air force are as close to the eastern convoy routes from Alexandria, as Sardinia and Sicily are to the western ones through the Strait of Gibraltar.
		The cost to the Royal Navy has been one cruiser and a destroyer sunk, and a battleship, carrier and two cruisers damaged.
		In the build-up to the battle, Royal Navy submarines and RAF aircraft, especially those based in Malta, are sinking more than a third of Axis supplies setting out for North Africa.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsRNMed2.htm (5713 words)

	Naval and Maritime Books
		The pride of the German Navy, her career and final battle as told from the point of view of the men aboard both the Scharnhorst and her nemesis, the Duke of York.
		Written during the darkest hours of WWII when the British merchant navy convoys were falling prey to mines, submarines, and a very efficient German Kriegsmarine.
		Roskill, Captain S.W. WHITE ENSIGN: The British Navy At War, 1939-1945 USNI 1960 "White Ensign" is an account of British naval action against the Axis powers in all theatres of operation during World War II.
	www.sonic.net /~books/navy.html (8472 words)

	The educational encyclopedia, world war II, navy ships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		History of the world's navy's battleships historical naval website dedicated to the ships of the world's navy's including battleships, aircraft carrier and cruisers.
		Italian navy dedicated to the history of the Regia Marina from June 10 1940 to September 8 1943
		Naval air war in the Pacific visual history of U.S. Navy and Marine air units in WWII Pacific.
	users.telenet.be /educypedia/education/worldwarIInavy.htm (756 words)

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