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| Tango01 | 20 Mar 2019 3:21 p.m. PST |
"In the summer of 1918, as World War One was drawing to close, the Austrian Navy suffered a series of defeats at the hands of the Royal Italian Navy. The most powerful ships of the Austrian Navy retreated to the port of Pola, on the Adriatic Sea. The entrance to this harbor was protected by floating booms and barricades, designed to ensnare and destroy enemy ships. The Italian Navy made several attempts to attack the Austrian fleet at Pola but failed to breach the elaborate harbor defenses. Lieutenant Raffaele Paolucci was an Italian naval surgeon who devised a plan to infiltrate the harbor at Pola and destroy the largest ships of the Austrian fleet. Although the sheltered enemy fleet seemed invulnerable to conventional attack, it occurred to Lieutenant Paolucci that he might be able to reach the Austrian ships by simply swimming to them, carrying explosives. Paolucci consulted charts of the Pola estuary and concluded that, if he could be dropped off near the entrance to the harbor, "a swim of three kilometers would enable me to reach the objective."…."
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| Lion in the Stars | 20 Mar 2019 4:31 p.m. PST |
3km one-way is one hell of a swim! |
| Tango01 | 21 Mar 2019 11:45 a.m. PST |
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adds an infantry platoon to his WWI Brits.
