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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Italian battleship Littorio
		Littorio was an Italian Vittorio Veneto class battleship that served in the Regia Marina during the World War II.
		Littorio participated in 46 war missions, 9 of which were enemy hunting and 3 were as an escort.
		After the 8 September 1943 armistice, she was positioned in the Great Bitter Lake in Egypt until the end of the war.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Italian_battleship_Littorio (207 words)

	Comando Supremo: Littorio Class Battleship
		The Littorio (renamed Italia), Vittorio Veneto, Impero and Roma.
		Littorio class battleships had radar installed by 1942 and it was called the Gufo system.
		Only one Battleship was lost in the war, the Roma, which was sunk by a German guided missile called the 1400 FX on September 8, 1943 after the Italian surrender to the Allies.
	www.comandosupremo.com /Littorio.html (245 words)

	War in the Mediterranean - The Taranto Raid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The two Littorio dreadnaughts had entered active service and all other battleships, with the only exception of Doria (still on trials), were now available to the Italians.
		The five (soon six) Italian battleships suddenly became a very serious threat and it was the Royal Navy this time that might have had doubts before engaging such a force.
		Three battleships had been hit, one (Cavour) had sunk in shallow waters, another (Littorio) had her bows underwater and her keel in the mud and finally a third one (Duilio) sustained moderate damage but two magazines were completely flooded.
	www.geocities.com /ed_morris_inc/grandfather/Taranto.htm (2307 words)

	Comando Supremo: Events of 1942
		Italian forces account for 60 to 168 cruiser and 60 'I" tanks lost by the Commonwealth forces between June 5 and 6.
		The Italians were outnumbered yet told to stand their ground and fight to the end.
		December 4 - Italian cruiser Muzio Attendolo is sunk in the port of Naples by U.S. bombers.
	www.comandosupremo.com /1942.html (3635 words)

	Italian Royal Navy in World War Two: main battles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Three Italian cruisers (Trento, Trieste and Bolzano) saw, at 07.55, four English cruisers, that changed their route and went away towards south-east, where it was the rest of the English fleet, thinking of being in inferiority conditions (they had guns of smaller caliber).
		The three Italian cruisers, at 08.12 opened fire by the distance of approximately 22000 meters but the volleys was too dispersed to be effective; the English cruisers, knowing that, for their guns, the adversaries are outside shooting range, shot a little, just to not remain idle.
		The Italian fleet, commanded by admiral Iachino left the port of Taranto to intercept it; it was 13.00 of 14 June.
	www.regiamarina.it /battles.htm (3348 words)

	Warship Pictures
		American battleship USS Oklahoma in the years before the attack on Pearl Harbor, where she was struck by multiple torpedoes and capsized in 11 minutes.
		British battleship HMS King George V in 1941, the year she engaged the Bismarck (photograph courtesy of the Imperial War Museum).
		Italian battleship Littorio (ex-Italia) on September 9, 1943 as she approaches Malta to surrender (photograph courtesy of the Imperial War Museum).
	www.chuckhawks.com /warship_pictures.htm (811 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| World War II \| Battle of Cape Matapan: World War II Italian Naval Massacre
		At their urging, and because of the general feeling at Supermarina (Italian naval headquarters) that an attempt should be made to re-establish the dynamics of conflict in the area, Operation Gaudo was born.
		The Italians were further motivated by Luftwaffe reports on March 15, 1941, indicating that two of the three British battleships in the Mediterranean had been severely damaged and were not operational.
		On July 9, 1940, the Royal Navy caught the Italians off the coast of Calabria, where a first-round hit was scored by the battleship HMS Warspite on the battleship Giulio Cesare, disabling her for months.
	www.historynet.com /wwii/blitaliannavalmassacre (1468 words)

	Italian Navy, Zara, Fiume, Pola, Artigeliere, Aviere, Trento
		The Italian army was also powerful enough to conquer British and French Somaliland and posed a threat to the Sudan and Kenya.
		This was partly offset by the presence of carrier “Eagle” to accompany battleships “Malaya”, “Ramillies”, “Royal Sovereign” and “Warspite”.
		In the morning of the 15th, south of Pantelleria, an Italian two-cruiser squadron in conjunction with Italian and German aircraft attacked the by-now lightly defended convoy.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsItalianNavy.htm (6109 words)

	LemaireSoft's Class: Littorio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		With the Littorios laid down in 1934 and in service in 1940, Italy was responding to the French Richelieu with ships of comparable quality.
		That's why the Littorio was sunk in Taranto by the torpedoes of the British Swordfish (but later raised).
		Both Littorios surrendered to the Allies after the Italian armistice of September of 1943 (the Littorio was hit by a German air-sea missile on her way to Malta).
	www.lemaire.happyhost.org /ship/classe1/5921.html (386 words)

	Italian battleship Roma (1940) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Roma was an Italian Vittorio Veneto class battleship that served in the Regia Marina during World War II.
		Roma was sunk on 9 September 1943, one day after the Italian government surrendered to the Allies, by a German Fritz X bomb launched from a Dornier Do 217 aircraft.
		Among those killed was the Italian Commander in Chief of Naval Battle Forces, Admiral Carlo Bergamini [1].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Italian_battleship_Roma_(1940) (242 words)

	Australian Battle Group - A "Big-Gun" Radio Controlled Model Warship Combat Club in Australia
		The rebuilt Italian battleship "Conte Di Cavour" from the South Australian Battle Squadron defeated DKM Graf Spee after a hard fought battle, but progressive flooding made it vital she return to port immediately.
		RMS Littorio settled until her quarterdeck was underwater and then went down in a rush.
		What no-one realised was that the reason Littorio was not pumping as heavily was not because she had less damage, but because her pump had come adrift inside the hull.
	media.ausbg.org /html/best_photos.html (3785 words)

	Google Earth Community: Batteries around Italian fleet anchorage
		All six of the Italian battleships of the 5th and 9th Divisions were in port on the night of the attack.
		At 11:14 PM, the 12.6-inch gun battleship, 'Conte di Cavour' was hit by one torpedo in her port bow between her number 1 and 2 turrets.
		At the same time, the 15-inch gun battleship, 'Littorio', was hit by three torpedoes: two in her starboard bow and one in her port stern.
	bbs.keyhole.com /ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/243075/Main/243075 (520 words)

	World in Flames - session 2006-03-04
		The Italian patrols does not manage to find the allied navy until after the invasion boats have unloaded their troops, but when they do, the battle becomes long and hard, lasting several days.
		Italian and German fighters first seams to be winning the battle for the Axis but some valiant British CVP turn the tide of battle for the allies.
		The Italian battleship Littorio suffers the same fate and one Italian cruiser is sunk.
	wif.xnetz.com /EiF/session/14 (561 words)

	Avalanche Press
		The British took out much of the Italian battleship fleet in a nighttime air raid on Taranto in November, 1940 (see Scenario 11, “Operation Judgement.”) The importance of this raid cannot be overstated, both from the historical perspective (Admiral Yamamoto studied it closely) and from that of the game.
		The British need to deal with Italian superiority in the Med in 1940 through deception, using scout and decoy fleets to confuse the enemy as to where their main fleet assets are.
		Two Italian scout fleets which have been heading south from Messina move to within one zone of TF4, which is now on the north coast of Lybia between Tobruk and Benghazi.
	www.avalanchepress.com /BombAlleyStrategy.php (3250 words)

	Battleship "RM Roma" - Military-Meshes.com
		To the height of the Magdalena, near the noon, a German airplane of naval reconnaissance was with the naval group of admiral Bergamini.
		Towards the three of afternoon, the Italian naval formation was attacked by a bomber squadron.
		(it was therefore the first battleship in being sunk reason why would be denominated nowadays, a missile anti-boat), with the result of serious failures in the rudder.
	www.military-meshes.com /forums/showthread.php?p=657 (951 words)

	Second Sirte
		The cruiser Cleopatra, part of Vian's force, was sighted by Italian submarines on the 21st, and Supermarina sounded the alarm.
		The Littorio group was sighted by a British submarine patrolling off Taranto, giving the British forces an early warning.
		The Italian force, along with the minor damage to the Littorio, lost on the way back to port the destroyers Scirocco and Lanciere to the incredibly violent sea.
	www.regiamarina.net /battles/sirte2/sirte2_us.htm (614 words)

	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.
		Mussolini thought that all Italian peninsula was a huge aircraft carrier: this though will be tragically wrong.During the tragedy of Second World War 33.000 Italian Seamen lost their lives and were lost 270.000 tons of warships.
		Three were sunk by RN battleships at the disastrous Battle Of Cape Matapan.
	homepage.eircom.net /~war/itanav.htm (681 words)

	Sandcastle V.I. - Carriers: Airpower at Sea - The Great Carrier War / Part 2
		Although an Italian destroyer and a tanker were sunk, the strikes were relatively ineffective.
		Italian high-level bombers harassed the HMS Eagle by scoring numerous near misses.
		The British planes blew a large hole in the stern of the Italian battleship Vittorio Veneto.
	www.sandcastlevi.com /sea/carriers/cvchap2b.htm (598 words)

	Vittorio
		Italian battleships are among the most attractive capital ships ever built, and the 46,000 ton ships of the Littorio class (Littorio, Roma, Vittorio Veneto, and Impero) are perhaps the most beautiful of the lot.
		The armour belt is very sharp, and the many barbettes - three large ones for the 15" main guns and twelve smaller versions for the 3.5" secondary armament, are cast integral with the hull.
		Littorio class battleships were large, 788' long and 108' in the beam.
	www.steelnavy.com /cwkagero2.htm (622 words)

	Mediterranean, RN, Fleet, Barham, Cape Bon, Battle, Sirte, George, Cross, ABC, Cunningham, Alexandria, Malta, Convoys, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		From airfields in Crete as well as Libya, the Luftwaffe and Italian Air force were as close to the eastern convoy routes from Alexandria, as Sardinia and Sicily were to the western ones through the Strait of Gibraltar.
		As for the convoy, all four transports including the renowned "Breconshire" were lost to air attack, two off Malta and two in harbour before much of their cargo could be off-loaded.
		Once the convoy was north of Bizerta, Tunisia, submarine, aircraft and Italian MTB (mas) attacks came fast and furiously.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsRNMed2.htm (5685 words)

	RN Roma (1942) - Wikimedia Commons
		She was the last built ship of her class, named after Rome, the capital city and was commissioned on 14.
		Roma is famous for being the most powerful Italian battleship ever built, because she incorporated many improvements over her two older sister ships, but tragically also for being the first battleship to be destroyed by radioguided gliding bombs dropped from aircraft.
		Italian battleship RN Roma in Trieste (August 1942)
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/RN_Roma_(1942) (411 words)

	Battle of Taranto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Italian navy was still considered a threat by Admiral Cunningham and in late 1940 he devised a plan whereby he would considerably reduce the power of the Italian navy.
		The attack took the Italians by surprise as they had no idea that the British fleet was so near.
		The swordfish achieved a considerable success and with 3 torpedo's they sank the battleship Littorio and hit the Conte di Cavour and the Caio Duilio with a single torpedo each putting them out of action for a lengthy period of time.
	members.tripod.com /~colemangr/taranto.htm (267 words)

	Today In WW II History - Topic Powered by eve community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Mareth line is held by a mixture of Italian and German units with the remaining 30 tanks of the German 15th Panzer Division in reserve.
		Italian forces hold the New Zealand Corps at the Tebaga Gap.
		The Italians send out the battleship Littorio, two heavy cruisers, one light cruiser and eight destroyers to intercept the British convoy to Malta carrying vital food supplies and ammunition.
	forums.ubi.com /eve/ubb.x/a/tpc/f/23110283/m/1771097952/p/12 (7291 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Destroyer HMS Legion of the L class
		Around 1030hours on 30 September 1941 the Italian submarine Adua (offsite link) was sunk north-west of Algiers in position 37º10'N, 00º56'E by the British destroyers HMS Gurkha and HMS Legion.
		The Italian light cruisers Alberico da Barbiano and Alberto di Giussano were torpedoed and sunk off Cape Bon by the Royal Navy destroyers HMS Sikh (Cdr.
		Claimed to have engaged the Italian battleship Littorio at 4400 yards' range (more likely she was in action with a heavy cruiser) but on approaching Malta was severely damaged in an air attack and forced to run up the beach at Marsaxlokk.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/4465.html (475 words)

	British Submarines of World War Two - Operation Harpoon and Vigorous, Mediterranean, 1942 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Around 0700, when the Italian fleet was 200 miles to the northwest, the convoy turned back for Malta.
		At this time, as the Italian fleet headed back for Taranto, a RAF Wellington from Malta torpedoed and damaged the Italian battleship Littorio.
		To try to keep the Italian Fleet away from the convoys, two forces of submarines were deployed, one to lay in wait off the Italian base at Taranto, and the other to operate between Sicily and Sardinia, ready for orders to attack any Italian forces.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /chalcraft/sm/harpoon.html (711 words)

	Alternate Campaigns: Africa, the Med, and the Middle East
		The Italians, cut off from reinforcements by Egypt and Sudan, had a fair amount of air power in East Africa, but it was mostly obsolete (even for Italian equipment).
		The Italians took interest in Malta in the summer of 1940, when they noticed that its potential against some of their supply convoys to North Africa.
		The Fritz FX-1400 glide bomb was used to sink the Italian battleship Littorio and damage its sister the Roma.
	uncleted.jinak.cz /altcamp3.htm (4290 words)

	The Pearl Harbor Strike Force, Kido Butai
		Two of those were on the newest Russian battleships, the Tsessarevitch and the Retvisan, which were run aground near the harbor entrance.
		Six planes dropped torpedoes and scored three hits, one on the battleship Conte di Cavour and two on the battleship Littorio.
		The battleships California, Nevada, and West Virginia all sank much like the Italian battleships at Taranto, and all were raised and returned to service by 1943.
	www.friesian.com /pearl.htm (3854 words)

	Italian battleship Impero - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Impero was an Italian Littorio class battleship of the Regia Marina during World War II.
		She was the third ship of her class, named after the Italian word for Empire, here inspired by the ancient Roman Empire.
		She was launched on February 15, 1939 but was never completed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Italian_battleship_Impero (112 words)

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