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...Rome. He quickly left again, this time for Sicily, where he met General Eisenhower's staff and the second general sent out by Marshal Badoglio. Presumably in Palermo, the parleys entered their final phase. In that city, on Aug. 29, American ack-ack gunners received startling orders. A Savoia-Marchetti bomber headed for the airfield was not to be fired on. The big plane slid down, and two Italian officers stepped out. On the 30th it took off again, escorted by three U.S. Lightnings. On the 31st it was back again and the same officers deplaned...
...British officers, unarmed, went aboard the cruiser Eugenio de Savoia. They were courteously received by Admiral Bagliria's successor in command, Admiral Romulo Olivia, and fed the best dinner they had eaten in months. Accustomed to the sparse quarters on British ships, they admired the Admiral's sumptuous mess and the tiled bathrooms of the Italian officers' quarters. The British officers heard an Italian officer say: "The Germans make big mistakes. The Italians make little ones, but lots of them. We are not very good at anything...
After dinner, on that historic night, the Italian Admiral, his Chief of Staff and the Captain of the Eugenio de Savoia went to bed early, leaving juniors in command of the ship and the fleet. The British officers, by turns, stayed on the bridge all night...
...routine press release from the Army this week credited two second lieutenants with sinking "a large Italian transport of the 50,000-ton Conte di Savoia class." The U.S. pilots, flying A36 fighter bombers (converted P-51s), spotted a big ship anchored off a quay at Bagnara Calabra in the southwestern part of Italy. They bombed it, registering two hits and a near miss. Pilots who flew over next" day confirmed the sinking...
...size of ships is a tricky thing to judge on the surface, let alone from the air in a 400-mile-an-hour warplane. But if the pilots did indeed sink a transport of the "Conte di Savoia class," then it must have been either the 49,000-ton Savoia herself or her companion (but not sister) ship, the 51,000-ton Rex. Either would be the biggest merchant vessel sunk by military action during...