Operation Vado
Operation Vado (Opération Vado) is an attack to the Italy mainland around naval port Genoa with the French navy Mediterranean Sea fleet carried out on June 14, 1940 during World War II.
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Background
Occupation by Germany in France, occupation in northwestern Africa were completed, but Balkan Peninsula invasion by Germany, the German ソ war do not still begin in those days. Italy which confronted France then across the Mediterranean Sea stood on the axle side on June 10 and declared war against France and the U.K. The Italian purpose was to get a territory of France before France surrendered. Therefore I waited until the time when France was weakened by Germany and participated in the war.
In contrast, battleship "Lorraine" that has heat that the French army transports survival military power in the point near the border with Italy, and the France navy leave the non-active Germany navy to France Atlantic fleet for invasion, and let the first fleet (first battleship squadron, fourth cruiser squadron, second light squadron and carrier ベアルン) leading two high speed battleship "Dunkerque grade" as opposition to the Italy navy at the French territory アルジェリアメルセルケビール naval port wait, and is influential in spite of being an old type British; dispatched you in Alexandria to possess. Consisting of fleet (the first cruiser squadron, the second cruiser squadron and the third light squadron) third at the time of the participation in a war in Italy in Toulon, Algiers "Province grade" two there was a cruiser squadron 2 corps with the second battleship squadron, and was preparations that a submarine squadron 6 corps was dispatched in Bizerte of French territory Tunisia elsewhere and met Italy. I took up my position by convincing power to count five super dreadnaughts, cruiser ten, large size destroyer 28, general-purpose destroyer 20, submarine 58.
In contrast, the Italian naval main war vessel of this time was five battleships, 重巡洋艦 seven, light cruiser 12, submarine 108, but it was only two Kabul grade and three ships of super dreadnaught Vittorio Veneto grade "Vittorio Veneto", and Vittorio Veneto was just completed more in May, and the warship held much alteration points in being actual fighting possibility among the battleships which were a capital ship on the continuity day when modernization remodeling was just finished and the training of officers was unfinished and was not counted in a force.
For participation in a war of Italy, the French navy planned bombardment from a warship to the Italian mainland boldly to baffle the Italian navy at the start. The French navy had five super dreadnaughts, but the French L.H.A. Francois Darlan general of the army (François Darlan) thought that it was speed that was necessary for an attack, and what I used for bombardment from a warship organized a force around high-speed 重巡洋艦. The squadron speed was in this way high-speed enough at 31 knots even at least.
The target was around Genoa and サヴォーナ, and the first expulsion corps (destroyer ヴォーバン, Lyon, エーグル), the fifth expulsion corps (destroyer タルテュ, Chevallier pole, カサール) left for the latter "Foch" 重巡洋艦 "Al Jerry" "Colbert" 重巡洋艦 "lek to duplicate" to the former to a commander in the third fleet commander in chief Emil デュプラ lieutenant generals the seventh expulsion corps (destroyer albatross, ヴォートゥール), third expulsion corps (destroyer ゲパール, ヴァルミ, ヴェルデュン).
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The strike force made a sortie from Toulon naval port on the night of June 13 and was divided into the two groups on the way. And nine bombers made a sortie against bombardment from a warship and the France air force as a feint operation at the Liguria coast where the Italian border with the French destroyer fleet was near in the middle of the night of the day and bombed サヴォーナ and a town of Genoa. And two squadrons which were a favorite cruised at the France coast at speed 15 knots under cover of a dark night and entered the Italian territorial waters.
Both military units started an attack at 4:26 on the early morning of June 15. 重巡洋艦 Algiers Lee and Foch bombarded it for an aim of Vado Lee Gres and サヴォーナ each [1]. I withdrew without being able to catch the French squadron which navigated high speed though I fought back to the Italian army with coast artillery after a bombardment squadron added shooting generally [the source required]. In addition, I attacked the Italian armored train for a French fleet [1]. For a French fleet, Italian naval torpedo boat MAS535 and MAS539 which were the coast patrol tried an attack and MAS539 performed the falling of a thunderbolt, but did not hit it [1]. In addition, MAS534 and MAS538 performed the falling of a thunderbolt for the French fleet which withdrew, but this did not hit it, too [1].
On the other hand, 重巡洋艦 lek and Colbert to duplicate bombarded the industrial area of the Genoa west [1]. In contrast, Italian destroyer クルタトーネ grade "カタラフィミ" guarding the minelayer near by approached it in order to perform a torpedo attack, but カタラフィミ received interception of albatross and ヴォートゥール [1]. Because the クルタトーネ grade was an old type completed in 1922 then, it was the old man(woman) which classified it into a torpedo boat in the navy in 1938, and was changed, but the captain of カタラフィミ carried out a charge by single warship daringly in the France squadron. カタラフィミ fired the 10.2cm (45-caliber) multi-launching machine gun two 4 gate blindly at an enemy and I pointed a 45cm three multi-launching torpedo tube to the French destroyer which stood out and gave off the falling of a thunderbolt, but the Buddha destroyer succeeded in the evasion of the torpedo with the high speed. In addition, one 6 inches of cannonballs hit it by the bombardment from the battery that there was an albatross to the west of Genoa and were damaged [1]. The commander of the Genoa bombardment squadron judged the further bombardment to only call an enemy together and started withdrawal [the source required].
The damage that two squadrons received by this attack only suffered feeble damage as I could say the country of the enemy country which had influential power only in 1 large destroyer "albatross" 隻中破 in the example that performed bombardment from a warship if miraculous.
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References
- Vincent P. O'Hara, Struggle for the Middle Sea, Nval Institute Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1 - 59,114-648-3
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