The answer to the Goering questions can be found here..
http://www.wcotc.com/wcotcwf/carin.html
Wow, very hard to find out anything that is not in Italian.
Apparently it was led by Valerio Borghese the 'Black Prince' commander in Italy and came into being following the announcement of the armistice in September 1943. It was able to operate almost autonomously from either Italian or German command.
There is speculation that Borghese was negotiating with Italian partisans and the British to join the allied cause in orderto prepare for a possible Yugoslav invasion. Would this be Jupitor or Mars?
Is their best mission to do with submarines or torpedoes?
I eventually came across this in a forum.
In the months immediately preceding the armistice, commander Borghese was at head of the Regia Marina "Decima MAS", under the command of admiral Aimone di Savoia. When he occasionally heard the radio announcement of the armistice, having no order from the Royal Navy headquarter and from his commander, Borghese decided to stay inside the Decima home base of Muggiano, in La Spezia harbour. So passed a few days; avery german attempt to enter inside Muggiano was rejected, and the Italian flag stay high over the barracks. In september 12, 1943, a German Navy officer signed with Borghese, as the Decima commander, an alliance pact. In fact, that offered a strange but real juridic personality to the formation and to his leader. So the Decima gained a particular
independency from the German Armed Forces, being officially an allied, and from the Italian RSI government. More about could be found inside the book "Decima Flottiglia nostra", written by Sergio Nesi, Mursia Editore, Milano. The secret contacts between the Decima and the allieds are still today covered in many aspects from secret. But, from the few revealed, they started in february or march 1944, between a Decima Special Unit operating in souther Italy, and some representatives of the Italian Royal Navy. They come, about in the summer of 1944, in a common action over three points:
- defending Italian main horbours;
- defending Italian main industries in Turin and Milan;
- defending the easter borders from the Iugoslavian expansion and "ethnical cleaning".
Later that year, these contacts was extended to the allied forces, and to some non communist partisan units. In that particular, it begin to take form a joint landing operation in Istria and Dalmatia. But al last nothing happened.
[This message has been edited by kobayashi (edited July 10, 2001).]
[This message has been edited by kobayashi (edited July 10, 2001).]
http://www.wcotc.com/wcotcwf/carin.html
Wow, very hard to find out anything that is not in Italian.
Apparently it was led by Valerio Borghese the 'Black Prince' commander in Italy and came into being following the announcement of the armistice in September 1943. It was able to operate almost autonomously from either Italian or German command.
There is speculation that Borghese was negotiating with Italian partisans and the British to join the allied cause in orderto prepare for a possible Yugoslav invasion. Would this be Jupitor or Mars?
Is their best mission to do with submarines or torpedoes?
I eventually came across this in a forum.
In the months immediately preceding the armistice, commander Borghese was at head of the Regia Marina "Decima MAS", under the command of admiral Aimone di Savoia. When he occasionally heard the radio announcement of the armistice, having no order from the Royal Navy headquarter and from his commander, Borghese decided to stay inside the Decima home base of Muggiano, in La Spezia harbour. So passed a few days; avery german attempt to enter inside Muggiano was rejected, and the Italian flag stay high over the barracks. In september 12, 1943, a German Navy officer signed with Borghese, as the Decima commander, an alliance pact. In fact, that offered a strange but real juridic personality to the formation and to his leader. So the Decima gained a particular
independency from the German Armed Forces, being officially an allied, and from the Italian RSI government. More about could be found inside the book "Decima Flottiglia nostra", written by Sergio Nesi, Mursia Editore, Milano. The secret contacts between the Decima and the allieds are still today covered in many aspects from secret. But, from the few revealed, they started in february or march 1944, between a Decima Special Unit operating in souther Italy, and some representatives of the Italian Royal Navy. They come, about in the summer of 1944, in a common action over three points:
- defending Italian main horbours;
- defending Italian main industries in Turin and Milan;
- defending the easter borders from the Iugoslavian expansion and "ethnical cleaning".
Later that year, these contacts was extended to the allied forces, and to some non communist partisan units. In that particular, it begin to take form a joint landing operation in Istria and Dalmatia. But al last nothing happened.
[This message has been edited by kobayashi (edited July 10, 2001).]
[This message has been edited by kobayashi (edited July 10, 2001).]
