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by Mattesini
Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:36 pm
Forum: Luftwaffe
Topic: 2 Dec. 1942, Western Mediterranean
Replies: 64
Views: 47221

Hello Andy. Than more enemy I have many “invidiosi”. At least I hope that the feeling is only this negative of someone, than thinks a great historian, only because it has read of the books, and that it does not have the correctness to answer in order “ringraziare” for the information that had asked....
by Mattesini
Sun Nov 19, 2006 3:36 am
Forum: Luftwaffe
Topic: Convoy KMF 5 - Aerial Torpedoing of the Cameronia
Replies: 44
Views: 30892

Convoy MKF 5- Cameronia

Hello Andre, I’m happy that the news I sent were useful to you, and in answering to your demands I make a short summary on the activity of the torpedo bombers of the KG.26 in the Mediterranean. Initially, for all 1941, a single squadron, the 6/KG.26 operated from Gerbini, in Sicily, that it obtained...
by Mattesini
Thu Nov 16, 2006 9:19 am
Forum: Luftwaffe
Topic: SHIPS SUNK OR DAMAGED BY KG 26 TORPEDO BOMBERS IN THE MED
Replies: 50
Views: 21030

Getlteman I answer to asked how much from Beppe, on the sinking and damaging of the ships Marigold, Acute, Avon Vale, Pozzarica and Arethusa, explaining as the successes of the German and Italian torpedo bombers were carried out, and the others turns out you from they is achieved from 9 December 194...
by Mattesini
Sun Nov 12, 2006 10:09 pm
Forum: Luftwaffe
Topic: Convoy KMF 5 - Aerial Torpedoing of the Cameronia
Replies: 44
Views: 30892

Continuation navigation convoy MKF 5 until Bona. According to many sources, above all in the situated ones of Internet, the torpoeing of the Cameronia has been credited to the Germanic submarine U-565 (lieutenant Wilhelm Franken), but that is not possible since from the information passages the even...
by Mattesini
Sun Nov 12, 2006 9:34 am
Forum: Luftwaffe
Topic: Convoy KMF 5 - Aerial Torpedoing of the Cameronia
Replies: 44
Views: 30892

Convoy KMF 5 - Cameronia

I make excuses myself for the exited piece cut of first part In order to trace convoy KMF.5, than after the sinking of the Strathallan ocean-going liner it continued navigation towards Bona, in the night on the 22 II the Fliegerkorps made to take off from the Sardinia two nocturnal reconnaissance ai...
by Mattesini
Sun Nov 12, 2006 8:56 am
Forum: Luftwaffe
Topic: Convoy KMF 5 - Aerial Torpedoing of the Cameronia
Replies: 44
Views: 30892

Convoy KMF 5 - Cameronia

the crews asserted to have hit with a bomb a motor-ship of 6.000 tons, on which smoke column was developed one. The other four Ju. 88, not having sighted the convoy, went to bomb the Algerian port of Djidjelli. Meantime, to hours 05,00, was taken off from the Sardinia a Ju.88 torpedo bomber of III. ...
by Mattesini
Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:31 am
Forum: Luftwaffe
Topic: 2 Dec. 1942, Western Mediterranean
Replies: 64
Views: 47221

2 Dec. 1942, Western Mediterranean

Hello Gentlemen, Losses HMS QUENTIN, in uboat.net, of Francesco Mattesini. Reference “Bollettino d’Archivio della Marina Militare”, Rome, September 2001, p. 186-187. At 1705 hours of 1 December 1942 HMS Quentin (Lt.Cdr. A.H.P. Noble, DSC, RN) left Bone harbor with 4 other units of Force "Q"...