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I saw today on X that there is to be a conference next month at Tobruk University regarding Tobruk during WW2.

Whilst reading a Royal Navy staff history I came across a reference to the book Navi e Poltrone by Signor Trizzino. The note states that the author was sued by Admiral Brivonesi for libel in November 1953, found guilty, ordered to pay a fine of 10466000 lire and imprisoned for two years and four...

This card is an example of Italian naval propaganda but what message is it trying to convey?

I often come across references to documents which state that Italy had only prepared to fight for a few months. One such is a British document-Weekly Intelligence report number 14 (June 1940) which states that the based upon a report written by Admiral Cavagnari ,the expected duration was three...

Is anybody in contact with either of the authors of this book? The book cites a number of niche sources that I am having difficulty finding. As to the book it is a reasonable account but the maps in it look as though they were produced on Windows 95 or earlier .

I would like to know more about the antisom school established by Rear admiral Da Zara in 1941. Does it have a published history?

I am currently reading East of Malta, West of Suez by Lawrence R Pratt. In the book , published in the 1970s , he mentions that there is very little written about Italian naval strategy in the inter-war period written in English and the USMM histories barely mention it so can anyone suggest...

Are there any published accounts written by members of the civilian population of Libya during the war time? I would be interested to know how the war against the convoys affected the food supply and also how the arrival of huge amounts of fighting men affected daily life.I believe that a lot of...

I am missing chapter 8 (pages 170-207 )from the following book-La Difesa del traffico con L’Africa Settentrionale: dal ’ottobre 1942 alla caduta della Tunisia . Would any of you have a copy and be able to send the missing pages please?

The Italian Defence ministry publish official histories related to their armed forces and the following link will take you to the page of their website that lists all of them- https://www.difesa.it/Area_Storica_HTML/editoria/Pagine/editoria.aspx

Would anybody have a copy of Axis Naval Policy and Operations in the Mediterranean, 1939 to May 1943 by VADM Eberhard Weichold ?

A very interesting podcast about intercepting the signals of the Regia Marina-https://audioboom.com/posts/7979946-e131-secrets-of-the-supermarina

Would anybody have a figure for the amount of allied prisoners of war taken in North Africa? Where were they held in North Africa and was sea transport the only option of moving them back to Europe?

Direction finding stations had been used in the First World War in the Mediterranean against U-boats and I am sure that the Regia Marina took a lot of notice on how they were used when it came to finding enemy submarines in the Second World War but this time the enemy was the British. This is...

Did the RM have any standard anti-submarine tactics with regards sweep patterns and use of depth charges?

The submarine fleet of the RM seems to have suffered large losses in the Mediterranean, has there been any analysis as to the causes of these losses?

A number of Junkers 88 aircraft were passed to the Regia Aeronautica, in what role were they used and also from which date?

Would anybody have a reference of navigational points as they appeared on charts used by the RMA and appearing in vessels logbooks? For example Punta Licosa. There is a postwar lighthouse offshore but was the reference in the logbook to somewhere on the mainland?