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| 14/03/1943 |
The Royal Navy Submarine
Thetis, now renamed Thunderbolt is sunk by the Italian corvette
Cicogna, off Sicily. |
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| 10/04/1943 |
USAAF bombers sink the
Italian cruiser Trieste in raid on Sardinia. |
| 16/04/1943 |
The Royal Navy's Destroyer Pakenham
and two Italian destroyers are sunk in naval engagements in
Sicilian Channel. |
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| 23/05/1943 |
The British claim that
313 Axis ships have been sunk in the Mediterranean since the
battle of El Alamein. |
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| 18/08/1943 |
A U.S. cruiser and destroyer
force shells Gioia, Taura and Palmi on the coast of Italy. |
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| 09/09/1943 |
The Italian fleet leaves
Spezia in Northern Italy, en route for Malta, where it surrenders
to the Royal Navy. |
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| 26/11/1943 |
The HMT Rohna, a British
troop transport, is attacked in the eastern Mediterranean by
a Luftwaffe plane using a radio-guided bomb, sinking the ship
and killing 1,015 American GIs and 135 British and Australian
service men. It is the largest loss of U.S. servicemen at sea
in the war. The disaster is kept secret, as the Allies did
not wish to disclose that the Germans possessed such an intimidating
weapon. Consequently, the destruction of the Rohna will remain
virtually unknown to the public for many years after the war. |
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