Von Earlmann Wrote:Don't know if it's true or not but I was told the British navy in the Med avoided daylight ops because of the fleigercorps.........the Italian navy avoided daylight ops for the same reason..........seems the fleigercorps only wanted targets...didn't matter which navy they belonged to :-)
VE
That's simply untrue, Earl.
The RN in WWII fought as well if not better than anytime in it's long history. Under the very aggressive Cunningham as C-in-C Mediterranean, offensive action was the watchword. Certainly, Axis aircraft inflicted heavy losses..as Cunningham said at the time of Crete, when heavy ship losses put him under pressure to reduce his level of support to the Army.."It takes three years to build a ship, a thousand years to rebuild a tradition." Perhaps the German proclivity to bomb their Italian allies' ships showed an unfamiliarity with maritime operations noted in other areas of the German war effort.
That said, don't confuse an alleged avoidance of daylight with operational planning designed to use darkness if consistent with the aim.
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