You Tube video of Italian Invasion of S. France

[PT Dockyard]

Here is a cool video that, about halfway through, shows the Italian landing in Corsica.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVcz_q4ximA&feature=player_embedded#

I am very interested in the small fishing boats that are shown about 4:39 into the film. The hull numbers look like B253 and B252 on two of them.

Is there a list,book, website somewhere that tells about these little auxiliary craft? I would like to know if any of the type shown in this video ever served in the Kriegsmarine.

Dave G
The PT Dockyard
http://www.ptdockyard.com

[peter.r]

Hi pt dockyard,if you go to the dr jung list in the Italian part of this site you will find a long list of aux vessels listed.
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[Darius]

Hello Dave,

this a very nice film, thank you.

Dr. Jung-List for B-Vessels & comments you can see here:
http://forum-marinearchiv.de/smf/index.php/topic,5896.0.html.

B 252 is there give as Quarto (1933/21BRT),
B 253 is missing.



Darius

[TD]

Hallo zusammen,

welches Blockschiff ist im Film zu sehen.
Bisher habe ich nur zu den vichy - französischen Hafen in Afrika etwas von Blockschiffen gesehen.

Vielleicht handelt  es sich natürlich um ein durch Luftangriff o. a. versenktes Schiff ?

Dank und Gruß

Theo

[gttf]

Interesting, in the last part of the video (landing in Bizerte), it is possible to see the landing of paratroopers, probably of the I Battaglione paracadutisti d'assalto (First assault paratrooper btl) of the Regia Aeronautica.

fabrizio

[kgvm]

Theo, der dritte Teil behandelt die Landungen in Tunesien. Das Blockschiff ist die "Moron" in Bizerta.