Regia Marina Italiana - Italian Navy during WW2

[Thx1138sober]

The Italian Navy did fine during WWII, it's just that the Brits did a little bit better.

[canudigit97]

i miss my grandpa, he was a italian sailor during ww2, he was a good man, R.I.P

[clama79]

the italians were too afraid to fight in WW II

[FGalaxie]

@clama79 the battle of kaserine pass, the Alpini on the Russian front, the folgore in north afrrica woul say otherwise.

Plus when they finally got the good fighters. kicked ass.

[clama79]

@FGalaxie ha Kasserine was held by the Germans. In the russian front the Russians brake through the italian and Romanian lines . And the Folgore was fighting there you are right but only because they had Rommel as the leader.

[FGalaxie]

@clama79 Rommel had special words of praise for the 7th Bersaglieri Regiment, who attacked fiercely .

The italians at Kaserine pass.

The Italians held the line at stalingrad so everyone could escape.

[clama79]

@FGalaxie that is not true. they did´nt held the line and that was the caus the the 6. army was lost. It was not the power of the italians that was wrong, they had bad weapons and a bad leadership.

[CyGothGuido]

what song is this??

[yuugo1995]

The most useless German ally in WW1 and WW2

In WW1 they betrayed them

In WW2 they got Pwned in everywhere they fought without germany

[MalacarMiles]

@yuugo1995 Wrong. In WWI Italy won, and betrayed nobody. In WWII Italian supreme command and the king betrayed Germany and all italian soldiers ( lost without any clear order), in september 1943.

Allieds would have lost the war they fought, without the help from USA.

[MrPix1988]

Onore e gloria alla Regia Marina Italiana.

[bombarderoazul]

Most useless navy of world war two. Actually had superiority in the mediterranean and yet the british were able to kick their asses in north Africa. In fact the entire Italian military was bad, everywhere they fought they were defeated.

[Yoshie1984]

@bombarderoazul This is about navy, not military. Italian navy was almost 100 % functional at the end of the war, and as a matter of fact americans and english used our boats in their navy after we surrended ...maybe they didn't think it useless.

[KingOCleveland]

@Yoshie1984 Italy was the most useless country in the whole world war, 1 or 2. not only was hungary probably a greater asset than you, you squandered your navy with lack of modernization, radar, and god awfull leadership. it was also described as the soft underbelly of the third reich even though german forces were spread over hundreds of thousands of miles of front and the entire italien army was was in italy. italy was a discrace and even the japenese were disgusted by their surrneder.

[Silmacar]

@Yoshie1984 Yeah, the ships were quite good, but shitty strategists and no radar took their toll on the Italian navy.

[jeegrobot72]

@Yoshie1984 the real problem was the Italian armed forces high command, unable to coordinate the various aeronautical and naval forces, the British intelligence services knew all our mossa.la Italian navy was superior to the British Navy in the Mediterranean at least

[GetitUnderCool]

@bombarderoazul maybe, but the they get some kicks to! the italian navy was a completely different matter from the italian army, and the brits did'nt won so easily!

[guasc0]

@bombarderoazul

:-)......Sei soltanto ignorante o soltanto stronzo?

[hydroptere]

@bombarderoazul

They were unulcky, managed by competitive admirals who fought against the ITA air force command and amongst themselves.

They were the biggest submarine force in Europe yet were defeated by something called RADAR

Ever asked yourself why in ITA there are 4 police forces?There a cultural reasons behind any story.

[darthreven9999]

@bombarderoazul you forget the british navy outnumbered the italian navy and that they had carriers where as the italians didnt (although some were planned and 2 were constructed but not finished by the time of the armstice

[Silmacar]

@bombarderoazul The two main problems:

1) sucky leadership (not just Il Douche, but also a lot of inept generals and admirals with outdated conceptions)

2) old weaponry: most Italian guns of WW2 were designed before or during WW1; the tanks (tankettes mostly) were designs of the late '20s and early '30s; and the air force relied mostly on biplanes for interception

3) no research on radar - which in the homeland of Marconi seems just too weird.

[64LI0479]

Infact, British lost more than 40 submarines in mediterranean, 20 of which directly by Italian Navy, and the oters for mines o unknown cause, lost 7 cruiser by mean italian navy, had 2 battleship badly damaged in Alexandria, and many others ships damaged by navy, sub and torpedo bombers. Italian navy could carry in north africa more than 95%of personal which start from italy, and more than 82% of goods, loosing more than 40 destroyers and 15 cruisers. Italian subs out of mediterr sunk 101 ships.

[mapollo]

Mi piace il video molto. Molto emozionante per me. Mio zio era un macchinista a bordo della nave Garibaldi Giuseppe. E 'morto lo scorso maggio.

Prego che Dio sia con tutti i marinai

Pace e Bene

[sbrughi]

Viva l'Italia

[elzorro1975]

mio nonno era fuochista sul R.I. Gorizia

[110avena]

Grandioso video e gloria alla Reggia Marina!!!!

[MaestraleF570]

Una grande marina, con navi moderne ed efficienti, tradita da uomini piccoli piccoli.

[Scrimante]

Che tu sia maledetto Iachino che hai frenato con la tua codardia il coraggio e il valore di così tanti comandanti. che hai gelato l'impeto della vittoria in così tante azioni. che hai voltato le spalle al nemico attirando sull'Italia lo scherno del valoroso nemico... Che hai portato la quarta marina del mondo ad abbassare la testa, riluttante. Posso solo immaginare il rammarico dei valenti capitani nel non poter ingaggiare il nemico come voluto. Peccato, la Reggia Marina dominato DOMINATO!

[AikidokaZen]

Che emozione i primi Top Gun a decollare da una nave!

[MalacarMiles]

the "battleship in the harbour" was theorized by adm. Maham and followed by most fleets in the last 30s; in the quiet mediterranean sea with so many harbours along the italian and lybian coasts the speed of a ship could be a decisive element while poor seakeeping and autonomy were futile and an aircraft carrier superflous.None of the british battleships in mediterranean sea ever directly faced a Littorio, the probable outcome of a duel Littorio v/s Renown would have been like Bismarck v/s Hood.

[lynyrdpez]

La "potente" Regia Marina era un'invenzione del regime, era una discreta forza navale dal punto di vista "materiale" (anche se per favorire la velocità era stata sacrificata la tenuta del mare), pessima dal punto di vista dei comandi ed inesistente dal punto di vista operativo. La Royal Navy, seconda a nessuno nella guerra, ha fatto quello che voleva nel Mediterraneo, annientando virtualmente la flotta italiana con perdite decisamente scarse, specie se comparate alle perdite italiane.

[lynyrdpez]

I totally agree with you.

[Ramadl59]

... but my mistake,not as strong as the British.

Having said that,a large part of the Italian navy sank sitting idol in port,because of rivalries with the air force,who acted solely independent from each other.

[Ramadl59]

that's a fact look it up.Italian navy was the only modern military they had.

[Ramadl59]

Italian navy ww2 was better than the British,at the start,but because of rivalries between the navy and the air force,the navy lacked air support and consequently suffered.

[Adonay96]

@Ramadl59 no way. the British navy was big enough and had the technology to make up for it.

[veritascrusader]

@Ramadl59 

[veritascrusader]

@Ramadl59 The Italain navy was never even close to the RN in power. Where do you get your dodgy "facts" from mate!

[GOODFELLAS74]

@veritascrusader because the Italian Navy had newer modern ships unlike the old ships of the RN but the RN had radar and close air support the Italians did not

[ppaolo2000]

ps scarsissime riserve di nafta ...semplicemente l'italia non poteva permettersi una guerra alla pari con l'inghilterra sul mare ma credo che queste cose le sapessero anche allora cosa che rende piu drammatica la nostra partecipazione al conflitto

[ppaolo2000]

secondo me bisogna inquadrare correttamente il problema... l'italia non era attrezzata per una guerra moderna che e' soprattutto una guerra di materiali al di la della propaganda il nocciolo e' tutto qua la marina era apparentemente all'altezza in realta era tragicamente obsoleta e infatti....gli inglesi non si preoccuparono eccessivamente ritenendo correttamente un pugno di sommergibili una portaerei e qualche corazzata vecchia bastassero e avanzassero

[Opelh]

He he relax cousins from Italy , i never said Italians was cowards .

On the contrary Italian navy was brave like her sailors but the chiefs of the fleet was not good that' s all ; i know the Regia marina was powerful : the battleships was modern with a good speed , but unfortunately they don' t have aircrafts carriers or Radars .

Britishs have , and used them , it' s war and it' s pretty clever to their parts .

[hollin61]

la guerra l ha fatta solo il naviglio leggero si son sacrificati per le scorte  alti comandi nelle mani di gente nn all altezza della situazione o prezzolati dal nemico?

[candullino]

secondo me, essendo spesso le nomine degli alti comandi decise a livello politico, si sono preferiti lacchè a comandanti che magari si impuntassero su questioni essenziali come una autonomia della forza aerea della Marina nei confronti dell'Aviazione. a parte le carenze di apparati essenziali come il radar a bordo la WWII è stata sul mare una guerra di navi ed aerei. chi non lo comprese ha causato anche questi disastri

[Axisarmy]

viva la potente marina italiana!!

[Axisarmy]

vnck25 you shut up because the Americans and Russians have helped you, without them you would have lost!

[vnck25]

They couldnt fight can only eat and drink thats why they lost lol

[pavito074]

ne sono molto orgoglioso di aver prestato servizio in marina sul cacciatorpediniere ardito ne 92/93 ,la marina italiana e potente se vuole.

[MaestraleF570]

E poi i carri c' erano, i P 40, i semoventi da 105, i 75/34, credo un centinaio almeno.Pero' i tedeschi giunsero prima a prenderli, poichè le fabbriche erano al nord ed il governo non si perito' nemmeno di cercare di trasferirli al sud durante il governo badoglio: qualcosa si vide solo a porta S. Paolo.

[MaestraleF570]

Il problema fu che la flotta fu mal gestita: per dolo o per colpa non fu mai impiegata seriamente: l' unica volta che usci' in massa fu l'8 setembre!

[trent8002003]

Now you're on Imperialism and colonialism? What a shift! You have difficulty stay on target just like the Regia Marina. No wonder they scored virtually no hits in the entire war. Reminder : we're talking about the WW2 Italian navy. Not about whether Great Britain was an evil Imperial empire. Who cares if it was? It trounced the Italian navy inthe mediterranean in WW2. That's what matters and that's a fact.

[trent8002003]

You're a 4 yr old child. Going to war is not an afternoon garden party. All participants of war utilise whatever means and resources at their disposal. There's no cowardice in radar and night fighting. There's a lot of cowardice when German and Italy failed to confront the Royal Navy EVEN WITH the help of radar and night fighting. BTW, before Taranto, the Italian battlefleet already turned away from HMS Warspite after a single long range hit.

[Opelh]

it' s true , the Royal Navy was the best .

Thanks to the britishs for the resistance during 1940-1941, alone again Germany and Italy : United Kingdom well done ( except for Mers el Kébir )

[pizzodiferro]

@trent8002003 Ever heard of battle of Cape Spartivento? Just 4 shots from 30 km away Italian battleship 'Vittorio Veneto', all alone, were enough to scare 7 British cruisers, which fled immediately. After that battle, British admiral Somerville was even officially accused of cowardice by his countrymen. So try to study all facts, not only the ones you prefer. For sure Italian Navy had many faults, but cowardice and power were not among them at all.

[trent8002003]

@pizzodiferro You said it yourself. A battleship fired on cruisers. Of course the cruisers had to flee. That was not cowardice. That was standard battle practice for ALL navies, except perhaps Navale de Lunacy commanded by you. When a battleship flees from another battleship, that is cowardice, (let alone when 2 battleships flees from 1). See the difference? When Dido flees from Vittorio Veneto, that's standard battle practice. When Cavour and Ceasar flees from Warspite, that's cowardice.

[GetitUnderCool]

@trent8002003 there is no cowardice in war! fleeing from a battle that you can't win is always the smartest thing to do . it would be foolish risking heavy damage to 2 good battleships only to sink 1 enemy battleship,

unless of course that 1 battleship is their actual target.. What if 2 queen elizabethclass would have faced a yamato class? i'm not a military expert but i think that war has nothing to do with honour, it's only a way to reach a goal.

[guasc0]

@trent8002003

Sei davvero ignorante, ed anche stupido...sai soltanto scrivere sciocchezze e non sai davvero nulla. Niente!!

Sei un essere ignobile. Ma spiegami...perchè tutte queste falsità? Forse qualche italiano si è trombato le femmine della tua famiglia e non ne sei rimasto contento?

[trent8002003]

You conveniently forgot all those places you listed were either colonies or very weak and completely unindustrialised countires. You think manpower alone could win war? If so, China would have flattened Japan. Of the major powers in the world at the time, Germany, Italy and Japan were clearly together. France fell. US and USSR still out of the war. Britain was alone in fighting the axis. You should go write a history book. Cos it's people like you that literally REWRITE HISTORY.

[trent8002003]

What universe are you in? The Brits were quite alone from 1940-41. They were fighting the Axis singlehandedlly after the fall of France and the US' joining the war. When it comes to cowardice, it was the Kreigsmarine and the Regia Marina that were scurrying about trying to dodge the Royal navy. Hitler himself freely admitted he was a coward at sea while the Italian fleet was all but totally demoralised after Taranto. If you wanna talk cowardice, go read a history bk first.

[Frenzyable]

Quelle bacinelle servivano al regime come estetica... in una guerra con un'esercito che tuttal più poteva combattere una guerra contro la Grecia e rischiare pure di perderla ...poi non e vero che siamo stati inifluenti nella ww2 ..siamo stati una palla al piede dei tedeschi e li abbiamo costretti ad utilizzare unità in settori che a loro non interessavano per pararci il di dietro ..perche forse ci saremmo trovati i greci a Roma visto che erano a metà Albania prima che loro intervenissero.

[MaestraleF570]

Caro Frenzyable, sappi che quelle bacinelle erano signore navi il cui valore bellico fu riconosciuto dal nemico; infatti gli Inglesi l' 8 settembre vollero la flotta, non gli aerei od i carri armati...

[Frenzyable]

Bè.....cosa restava della flotta aerea o dei battaglioni di carri dopo l'8 settembre? ......un mucchio di polvere e ferri contorti.

[guasc0]

@Frenzyable

Incredibile: esiste gente così ignorante?

[rabadasho]

Bel video. Se ti piacciono gli armamenti del Regio Esercito italiano guarda i miei video sull'epoca!

[jeegrobot72]

Le navi italiane erano fra le migliori di tutte le marine,purtroppo mancava il radar e mancava coordinazione con l'aeronautica

[maurus199]

Mi sono emozionato vedendo questo video. Ho pensato a mio padre, volontario a 16 anni nella Regia Marina. Altri tempi.....Lui si congedò nel 1946 e la Marina gli rimase sempre nel sangue. Si emozionava nel vedere una Nave della MMI in tv o in porto.

Grazie!!

[25370]

emozionante!!!

[scarletpimpernel1793]

bello ed interessante, grazie

il mio cuore batte forte pensando al mio nonno che era ufficiale e comandò diverse di queste navi, tornando sempre a casa salvo con navi e uomini. uno dei pochi che applicavano il silenzio radio,,, contravvenendo agli ordini dello stato maggiore

[trotto86]

le navi piu potenti della seconda guerra mondiale.. rispetto a loro..onor agli uomini della marina.. siete stati grandi

[dotto86]

Non le più potenti della guerra ma sicuramente del Mediterraneo. Le corazzate inglesi erano inferiori a quelle italiane

[airk90]

Ma gli Inglesi avevano l'aviazione di supporto. Noi avevamo ancora dei biplani quando loro usavano gli spitfire

[albertop952]

Mussolini fece fucilare Mascherpa e Campioni (due ammiragli) per alto tradimento

[contedracula70]

Rispettiamo questi uomini che hanno combattuto una guerra davvero difficile. La nostra Marina, comunque, è stata l'unica che, grazie ai suoi uomini e ai suoi cannoni, ha mantenuto alto l'onore dell'Italia

[rudeone4life]

trent8002003, true that their command was poor and they did not have radar, but no one can dispute the success of the X MAS against the British Navy.

[trent8002003]

No one dispute their success. The badly damaged Valiant and QE were hard evidence that the Italian navy's clandestine force was brave and brilliant as much as the main Italian navy was a huge let down failing to sink or even badly damage 1 major Royal Navy unit.

[VittorioVeneto1980]

La più Grande Marina di tutti i tempi !!!

[Ownjkh]

W L'ITALIA

[HermitMode99]

ONORE A LORO

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DÁ PARA SENTIR UM POUCO O QUE FOI A REGINA MARINA ITALIANA, DA QUAL MEU PAI FEZ PARTE NA SEGUNDA GRANDE GUERRA. Jean Carneri - Brasil