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Matapan 1941. The main battle in the Mediterranean

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Matapan 1941. The main battle in the Mediterranean
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The Battle of Cape Matapan, March 27-29, 1941, was the largest and most effective naval confrontation in the Mediterranean Sea during World War II. For the first time in history, the outcome of a battle at sea was decided by deck aviation. It was after Matapan that aircraft carriers became the most formidable opponents of battleships. Admiral Cunningham's squadron at the extreme southern point of Greece inflicted such a crushing defeat on the Italians that they could not recover from it until the surrender of the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina). The losses of Mussolini's fleet amounted to three heavy cruisers, two destroyers, more than two thousand sailors killed, as well as serious damage to the battleship "Vittorio Veneto". At the same time, the British, who would dominate the Eastern Mediterranean until the German army captured Crete, lost only one torpedo-bearing aircraft along with a crew of three. The defeat off Cape Matapan meant that the Italian Navy effectively no longer took any active part in the fighting, even despite its technical and numerical superiority. A large force of Mussolini's fleet would now only put to sea in September 1943 and only to surrender to the Allies in Malta.
The new book by a famous military historian for the first time in the domestic literature in all the details reconstructs the course of one of the most famous sea battles in history. The edition is richly illustrated with rare photographs and diagrams of the battle.
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