Thursday 28 March 2019

This Day In Military History March 28





1941  
       Britain's Mediterranean Fleet sinks three heavy cruisers and two destroyers of Italy's Regia Marina.

ship at 45 degree angle showing damage caused by German gunfire and impact with the dock

1942 
        A British combined force permanently disables the Louis Joubert Lock in Saint-Nazaire in order to keep the German battleship Tirpitz away from the mid-ocean convoy lanes.

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