Diary October 6, 1942

10-1942, Diary WW2, War Diary, Year 1942 / 1 minute of reading

submarine 'Barbarigo' — The submarine ‘Barbarigo’ with some members of her crew on deck. These Italian submarines were in general successfull in the Atlantic campaign together with the German U-boats. Early 1943 ‘Barbarigo’ war rebuild as a cargo submarine and later lost.

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, October 6, 1942:

Sea War

Atlantic: The commander of Italian submarine Barbarigo reports that he has sunk American battleship of Idaho Class off West Africa (before, in previous May, the same Commander -Grozzi- had ‘sunk’ a US battleship off Brazil): in actual fact the ‘battleships’ are a corvette and a merchant ship resp. (Barbarigo lost, June 1943.)

Air War

Germany: RAF night raid on Osnabrueck.

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My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.

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