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Featured Profile ArticlePaul Glasser reports on the debut of Axis and Allies: Guadalcanal and the North African expansion.
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Description"It was called Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) by Benito Mussolini and his Fascist stalwarts, but the Italian navy, or Regia Marina, still understood it was an open question as to who would rule the Mediterranean in 1941. In fact, Operation Gaudo, a plan to sweep the Royal Navy from the waters surrounding Crete, was intended to demonstrate, after a number of one-sided encounters, that the Italians were still a force to be reckoned with."
Publication Date1 January 2001
Linkhistorynet.com/battle-of-cape-matapan-world-war-ii-italian-naval-massacre.htm
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