“A significant aspect of this deployment is centered on our longstanding relationships with European Allies and Partners, to include Italy,” said Duff. Gavin Duff, Truman’s commanding officer, emphasized the importance of multinational cooperation demonstrated by routine port visits. Though bolstering US commitment to the NATO Alliance is key to Truman’s presence in the region, routine port visits provide the opportunity to reinforce our enduring connection with Italy. Truman has continued supporting NATO’s defensive capabilities by participating in enhanced Air Policing (eAP) mission on the Alliance’s Eastern flank. Key maritime integration events have included tri-carrier operations among HSTCSG, the ITS Cavour carrier strike group and the FS Charles de Gaulle carrier strike group, as well as Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 1’s combined operations with the Italian Air Force. “All involved demonstrated our ability to integrate seamlessly.”
Curt Renshaw, commander, Carrier Strike Group 8. “Prior to our visit, we sailed alongside our Italian partners at sea during multiple operations with the aircraft carrier ITS Cavour (C 550) and several Italian surface ships,” said Rear Adm. Truman Carrier Strike Group (HSTCSG), including Truman, Fridtjof Nansen and San Jacinto, have routinely operated alongside the Italian Armed Forces.
Harry Gillespie is a military historian who resides with his wife in the United Kingdom.Since arriving to the Mediterranean Sea in December, the Harry S. In fact the last time the Italian Navy would make a major fleet formation would be to surrender to Admiral Cunningham.īattle of Cape Matapan 1941 : Italy’s Greatest Naval Defeat Written by Harry Gillespie Havock fired twice into her bridge and reported finding the Italian battleship “undamaged and stopped.” She was mistaken for the Littorio-class battleship Vittorio Veneto, an impressive ship which had nine 15-inch guns and displacing 45,000 tons. Instead, the listing Pola was illuminated. Star shells were fired from the destroyer HMS Havock over the position where the crippled Zara was presumed to be.
HMS Formidable, the British aircraft carrier was following the battleships and it was only after her 4.5″ guns had managed to get off a few salvos that someone thought that having a carrier in the line of battle might not be a good idea and ordered her to sheer off and avoid trouble. The remaining two Italian destroyers sped off to the northwest. In the firefight, the destroyer Carducci was also sunk. The action became highly confused in the night as the opposing destroyers sought each other in the darkness. Cunningham ordered his destroyers to give chase. The British battleships made a 90-degree turn to retire and escape the counterattack. The remaining Italian destroyers closed for an impotent torpedo attack before withdrawing into the night. Fiume, Zara, and the destroyer Alfieri were turned into burning wrecks within five minutes.
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