Word: picchiatelli
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Meanwhile more Stukas and Italian picchiatelli dive bombers had attacked the rest of the convoy. The destroyer Gallant was crippled by an Italian torpedo, but limped into port (the Italians said she foundered). The cruiser Southampton was so badly fired by Nazi bombs that the British were finally forced to sink her. Said Military Expert Hanson Baldwin: "The Southampton's sinking marks a red-letter day in the history of warfare. Some day, when sufficient forces have been concentrated against it and sufficient hits are made, a battleship, too, will be sunk from...
...Harbor, Malta, and later the same day about 30 miles to the southeast of Malta, Italian dive bombers engaged units of the British Fleet. Said the Italian communique: "Violent anti-aircraft reaction and bitter combat with enemy chasers could not prevent our formations of bombers in horizontal flight and Picchiatelli-new formations of dive bombers-from achieving with dash and daring the obvious results...
...Gladiators and antiaircraft; and four others were chased almost to Sicily. The next day Britons, who refuse to take Italian warriors seriously, speculated about the dive bombers' design (they are probably the planes approved only last February, first tested in March) and had a chuckle about the name. Picchiatelli, it appeared, was Italian for a word in the picture Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, which was extremely popular in Italy-pixilated. It was used to describe Signor Gary Cooper as slightly daffy...
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