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Argentina:
ARA Corrientes sinking in 1941.
Fog produced an error in the manoeuvres exercise and the consequent sinking of the destroyer ARA Corrientes T-8 (2,000t) after the collision with the heavy cruiser ARA Brown C-1 (8,000t) and the battleship ARA Moreno A-1 (31,000t). Unfortunately 8 sailors of Argentina lost their lives.
ARA Corrientes sinking in 1941.
Fog produced an error in the manoeuvres exercise and the consequent sinking of the destroyer ARA Corrientes T-8 (2,000t) after the collision with the heavy cruiser ARA Brown C-1 (8,000t) and the battleship ARA Moreno A-1 (31,000t). Unfortunately 8 sailors of Argentina lost their lives.
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Battleship Kilkis, sunk at the naval base at Salamis, after German air attacks on 23 April 1941. Photographed from a German Heinkel HE 60 seaplane after the base was occupied by the German Army. Note bomb damage to the nearby pier. Kilkis is the former USS Mississippi (BB-23).
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Sections of the British Mulberry Harbour "B" at Arromanches...aka "Port Winston"... remained in use long after D-Day.
The American Mulberry "A" was abandoned after being wrecked in the great storm of June 19th.
Here, Austin K2 ambulances of the RAMC transfer casualties to a hospital ship tied up alongside one of the large floating piers, September 1944.
Within a few hours the casualties would be across the Channel and safely in England where they would have been be transferred to one of the many Allied hospitals established to receive casualties from the fighting in France.
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The American Mulberry "A" was abandoned after being wrecked in the great storm of June 19th.
Here, Austin K2 ambulances of the RAMC transfer casualties to a hospital ship tied up alongside one of the large floating piers, September 1944.
Within a few hours the casualties would be across the Channel and safely in England where they would have been be transferred to one of the many Allied hospitals established to receive casualties from the fighting in France.
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Italy:
Operation Toast was an Italian-conducted mission (with British approvation and support) to try and sink the incomplete carrier Aquila before her large mass could be used to block the harbour of Genoa, as the Germans intended to do. This mission was also undertaken in the hope that an Italian success could be used as a boon in the negotiations for the future peace treaty.
In the night of 18 April 1945, the destroyer Legionario and the MS 74, escorted by two British MTBs, released near Genoa two MTSM motor torpedo boats and two Chariot manned torpedoes, all with Italian crewmen from Mariassalto; the former's mission was to try and recover the crews of the latter two after they had completed their own.
One of the two Chariots ended up dead in the water with depleted batteries and had to be abandoned, with the crew being taken by a MTSM. The other, despite the British-made respitators acting up, managed to reach the carrier; being unable to place the charge beneath the hull, though, the crew left it under it, on the bottom. The two men then doubled back and were successfully extracted by the MTSM.
The charge did detonate, as shown by the picture, but incredibly the Aquila, protected by considerable bulges, failed to sink. And, when the Allies would reach Genoa (already liberated by a partisan uprising that forced the surrender of its German garrison) at the end of the month, they found the incomplete carrier still very much afloat, and all the trouble they had to deal with was to tow it where she wasn't in the way.
Operation Toast was an Italian-conducted mission (with British approvation and support) to try and sink the incomplete carrier Aquila before her large mass could be used to block the harbour of Genoa, as the Germans intended to do. This mission was also undertaken in the hope that an Italian success could be used as a boon in the negotiations for the future peace treaty.
In the night of 18 April 1945, the destroyer Legionario and the MS 74, escorted by two British MTBs, released near Genoa two MTSM motor torpedo boats and two Chariot manned torpedoes, all with Italian crewmen from Mariassalto; the former's mission was to try and recover the crews of the latter two after they had completed their own.
One of the two Chariots ended up dead in the water with depleted batteries and had to be abandoned, with the crew being taken by a MTSM. The other, despite the British-made respitators acting up, managed to reach the carrier; being unable to place the charge beneath the hull, though, the crew left it under it, on the bottom. The two men then doubled back and were successfully extracted by the MTSM.
The charge did detonate, as shown by the picture, but incredibly the Aquila, protected by considerable bulges, failed to sink. And, when the Allies would reach Genoa (already liberated by a partisan uprising that forced the surrender of its German garrison) at the end of the month, they found the incomplete carrier still very much afloat, and all the trouble they had to deal with was to tow it where she wasn't in the way.
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