1941 Fleet Air Arm bombing raid on Naples

phylo_roadking · Post by **phylo_roadking** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 5:22 pm

All, I've just come across a reference in a "Time" archived news story about the Italian invasion of Greece in 1941 and events surrounding it, and in it, without much detail at all, it mentions a British air raid on Naples in the first week of the war "by Blackburns" so I assume carrier-based Skuas? The Italians had no blackout regime so they were guided straight into the city, apparently....

Does anyone have nay more detail on this?

raj-rif · Post by **raj-rif** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 2:57 pm

Naples was the most bombed Italian city in WW2. It was struck for the first time on November 1, 1940, by RAF and Fleet Air Arm Bristol-Blenheim twin-engine light bombers flying out of Malta. It was part of a coordinated British attack against Naples and Brindisi.

http://faculty.ed.umuc.edu/~jmatthew/na ... ombing.htm

also on November 11th-12th, 1940 fairy Swordfish flying from Hms illustrious attacked the italian fleet in tarranto afterwhich the italian navy seldom troubled the allies in the med

http://www.regiamarina.net/engagements/ ... nto_us.htm

phylo_roadking · Post by **phylo_roadking** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 3:25 pm

Ta for that - scuppers the "rumoured" raid during the Italian-Greek War MUCH earlier in the year then!