They struck at midnight or at dawn. Stealing silently beneath the darkened waters of Allied harbors in the Mediterranean, they moved swiftly, leaving in their wake the sunken hulls and twisted wreckage of dozens of British and American ships. They were the first of their breed, a small band of Italian Navymen who introduced a new concept of undersea warfare. They performed with such skill and ingenuity, claiming victory after victory, that Winston Churchill called an emergency session of Parliament to deal with the crisis.Using the words of the seagoing warriors themselves, as well as information drawn from the British and Italian Navy Archives, co-authors William Schofield and P.J. Carisella tell the Frogmen story as it has never been told, including their daring plan to attack New York Harbor on Christmas Eve 1943!

Frogmen: First Battles

History

Schofield, William

Carisella, P. J.

Military

Avon/Books

The Dance of the Twelve Apostles

Literature & Fiction

United States

Branden Pub. Co

Their tactics and strategies blasted trails of terror and destruction, leaving in their wake the sunken hulls and twisted wreckage of ships of the Allied forces. They destroyed everything from submarines to battleships. A well-researched account of daring Italian navy frogmen.

Americas

<p>Mainly due to military secrecy, the story of the Italian frogmen has not been told to its fullest. Thanks to Bill Schofield and P. J. Carisella, this history has been rescued. The Italian frogmen invented the art of underwater warfare to a level of efficiency un-equaled in naval history. Suffice it to say at a particular point, those frogmen caused the shift of power away from the Allies and on behalf of the Germans. These frogmen, who acted as single units or in units of two or four, were able to sink military transport ships and battleships alike. In World War I, when their history began, they practically decimated Austria’s warships. In World War II, the Italian Navy created its secret Decima MAS—the Tenth Light Flotilla, with Prince Valerio Borghese one of its more effective commanders. These frogmen were a bane to the Allied navy, especially the English. “They struck at midnight. They struck at dawn. They blasted trails of destruction from Cadiz to Crete, from Alexandria to Gibraltar, leaving in their wake sunken hulls and twisted wreckage of dozens of ships, from battlewagons to submarines, from tankers to cruisers and battleships.”</p>

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