diciassette2000
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Congratulations......
Maurizio
Maurizio
Operazione C3
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Thank you but I am not sure what it is for. I have only begun writing and it will take awhile. I haven't yet approach a publisher. It might be that no one will want it.
The book on 1940 is still my first choice, but the primary research isn't there. Until I or someone else can copy documents from the archives, that book will remain on hold. I scoured the NARA rolls and found a few documents, but not enough to make a go of it. I considered other book options, but all require further research. C3 is the only topic for which I already have most of what is needed to write an authoritative account.
Pista! Jeff
The book on 1940 is still my first choice, but the primary research isn't there. Until I or someone else can copy documents from the archives, that book will remain on hold. I scoured the NARA rolls and found a few documents, but not enough to make a go of it. I considered other book options, but all require further research. C3 is the only topic for which I already have most of what is needed to write an authoritative account.
Pista! Jeff
diciassette2000
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The NARA has little or nothing on the Italian 1940s.....but look, there really isn't much in Rome either.....unfortunately a lot has been definitively lost....let it be said by someone who is in Rome it happened several times....perhaps there could have been something among the papers that the Americans returned at the time but which however had not yet been copied....certainly, however, the EMS at the time put them in a chaotic fund and never defined and classified........I intend to write some articles with a friend of mine on the Aegean and on the events of September 43 in Rhodes.....I had copied a certain number of reports from that at the time to Rome....
All the best
Maurizio
All the best
Maurizio
diciassette2000
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However, now that I have also read all the latest American texts on the C3 they all seemed to me not only incomplete but also full of nonsense such as those on the lack of theories of ground attack or infantry support by the Italians.... .. apart from the fact that if someone had read even one of the original plans of the C3 they would have noticed that neither the Ba65s which, although decommissioned, were still in service in 1941-42 nor the terrible Ba80s which were flying coffins were mentioned but only the Picchiatellis ( Stuka) (on which the ace De Vecchi worked) that at the time there were 100 in service already in 1941 to which another 150 were added at the end of 1942......and if anyone had the patience to read some contemporary text on the theories of the Regia Aeronautica or even just Santoro's book, one would realize that surely the Italians would also have (at the moment) been able to maintain themselves even without the Luftwaffe.....things certainly did not go as they did due to lack of planes or theories.....Among other things, if you also look at the project you spoke to me about (which I believe is the only one in existence with many attachments) it is clear that at the time the Germans had not yet sent anything regarding their vision of the C3 (Herkules) is therefore indicative of their reluctance to get involved again in such delicate and in their eyes useless operations.....
All the best
Maurizio
All the best
Maurizio
Not sure if this is the right place, but FWIW, found on the RAF Air Historical Branch site in the "Translations from Captured German Documents" section
The Plan for the Invasion of Malta
Prepared by the Italian Air Ministry, not dated, but written in the past tense
Kesselring's plan for the invasion of Malta
Submitted to Comando Supremo, dated 31 May 1942
Many more documents added to this page since my last visit
The Plan for the Invasion of Malta
Prepared by the Italian Air Ministry, not dated, but written in the past tense
Kesselring's plan for the invasion of Malta
Submitted to Comando Supremo, dated 31 May 1942
Many more documents added to this page since my last visit