The Italians were successful with frogmen and mini subs. When the Japanese attacked the British Navy, the British could not muster adequate naval reinforcements. Many of the ships the British high command wanted in the Pacific were sunk or put out of action in the Mediterranean by Italian frogmen and torpedo planes.
Damn sure we are! There's a say here in the Italian Navy: "Tratta la tua nave come una signora e lei ti tratterà allo stesso modo", that is translated in "Treat your ship like a lady and she'll treat you likewise in return" Actual Italian Sailor here
Testo in italiano: Stanotte o marinar', si dorme nel quartier'! La novella nave italica nel porto affonda l'ancora La vita di città è un mare di piacer' Ma già le nove suonano, in marcia nel quartier' Marinaro guarda appena Qui più che sul mar, fa stragi la sirena Hai la nave tu nel core? Bada che l'amore fa tutto scordar'. RIT Marinar', la ritirata già t'appella Ma la notte è bella e l'amor favella Marinar',non tardar' La tua nave non devi scordar' Che resta sola in mar! RIT Nel tacito quartier', riposa il marinar' Ma gli occhi non si chiudono e le ore lente passano La cara nave là, abbandonata al mar Dall'acque che la baciano perfin geloso ei par! Marinaro, io son crudele Ben più dell'amor La nave ti è fedele Occhi belli, azzurri o neri Mutan desideri, mio bel marinar'! RIT Marinar', la ritirata già t'appella Ma la notte è bella e l'amor favella Marinar',non tardar' La tua nave non devi scordar' Che resta sola in mar! RIT In piedi, o marinar', saluta il tuo quartier' Di già i cannoni tuonano Staman' le navi partono Non c'è da lacrimar, addio da dir non c'è La nave, il suolo italico, la patria vien con te! La tua nave gloriosa Senti o marinar', è tua madre, è tua sposa Ti s'affida ed irte spera Grida: la bandiera in mano ti sta! RIT Marinar', la ritirata già t'appella Ma la notte è bella e l'amor favella Marinar',non tardar' La tua nave non devi scordar' Che resta sola in mar! RIT Marinar', la ritirata già t'appella Ma la notte è bella e l'amor favella Marinar',non tardar' La tua nave non devi scordar' Che resta sola in mar! RIT
“This revisionist history convincingly argues that the Regia Marina Italiana (the Royal Italian Navy) has been neglected and maligned in assessments of its contributions to the Axis effort in World War II. After all, Italy was the major Axis player in the Mediterranean, and it was the Italian navy and air force, with only sporadic help from their German ally, that stymied the British navy and air force for most of the thirty-nine months that Italy was a belligerent. It was the Royal Italian Navy that provided the many convoys that kept the Axis war effort in Africa alive by repeatedly braving attack by aircraft, submarine, and surface vessels. If doomed by its own technical weaknesses and Ultra (the top-secret British decoding device), the Italian navy still fought a tenacious and gallant war; and if it did not win that war, it avoided defeat for thirty-nine, long, frustrating months.”
Had Italian ships been equipped with radar and the Allies didn't have the enormous advantage of breaking Enigma, victory for the Allies would have been much tougher at sea.
Oh indeed, and there's a reason why certain Italian ships were taken into post-war service by several nations besides Italy itself. They served for several decades afterwards in fact, a credit to their skillful construction and design. Even now, Italian shipyards turn out fine vessels for many nations besides their own, a testament to a long and rich tradition.
@@FiammaNera1917in realtà è abbastanza giusto. Dato che sulle operazioni nel mediterraneo, non c'era un grande bisogno di portaerei. Dato che la Regia Aeronautica poteva operare tranquillamente. Una portaerei avrebbe garantito ai piloti un maggior numero di ore in volo. Oltre al fatto che la Regia Marina in questo modo possedeva la propria squadriglia di aerei. Dato che era cosa nota che la Regia Marina e la Regia Aeronautica non si sopportavano e non collaboravano tra loro. L'unica volta che hanno collaborato si ha ottenuto una schiacciante vittoria prendendo a calci gli inglesi. Quindi molto probabilmente si riusciva ad annientare la Royal navy (dato che le navi italiane erano di molto superiore a quelle inglesi) se la Regia Aeronautica e Marina collaboravano un pochino in più. Ma soprattutto se la Supermarina non era un covo di traditori. Dato che furono anche loro tra l'altro, a fermare la costruzione della portaerei Aquila che era per il 90% completa
The Italian battleships are very beautiful outside and inside. The interior of the turret and it's machinery looks as shiny as a polished roman shield. The 15 in Guns of littorio class have same muzzle velocity as the 18 in guns on Yamato. Which is why they have similar range, Yamato has a little more tho.
That inicial high speed velocity was requested by Regia Marina specifically to increase range but our the full 35 kilometers was never hit . And moreover it created quite a bad side effect as being a terrible shell dispersion
I hate how underrated the Regia Marina is. They had some amazing ships, the Zara-class (my personal favorites) were considered one of the best cruisers in the world alongside the Littorio-class fast battleships. They were just bogged down by lack of fuel and lack of cooperation with the Air Force
"The Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) of World War II had capable professional officers, gallant sailors, and beautiful fast ships designed by gifted engineers. What it didn’t have was petroleum, and that was fatal. As British Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon observed at the end of World War I, the Allies “floated to victory on a sea of oil.” Nevertheless, for 39 months, the Italian navy took many hard knocks and dished out a few to the vaunted British Royal Navy, fighting not only on the Mediterranean, but also in the Red Sea, the Atlantic, the Indian Ocean, and even on Russia’s distant Lake Ladoga.”
My dad was in Naples as a teenager, and would later serve in North Africa, el Alamein and el Guettar...he recalled that after dinner, the navy band would play this march as they paraded through the main streets of the city...sailors from all over would then join them on the way back to their ships....an effective way to collect the personnel previously spread all over town....
Sounds too romantic, in my opinion, on how parades/music summon back men to their stations. But if it's true, then perhaps life really is stranger than fiction.
My beautiful Italian Mama , tall , big blue eyes was very Patriotic ...Her Father had won the " Medagllia d' Oro al Valore Militare " , Italian Victoria Cross equivalent , usually postumuos , He had been an Italian Infantry Soldier in the Isonzo Front , WW I . Italians are Passionate People , they LOVE Beauty ...and will Fight to Death if they have a Good Leader and a Good cause.
The Regia Marina perhaps was the most powerful Italian military branch at this point. And at least in terms of a surface fleet more powerful than the Kreigsmarine. Of course the Germans had the submarine fleet to compensate of course. And for a regional fleet instead of a empire spanning one a pretty good one.
This is from the time when warships looked like warships, not like the boxy, boring ships of today with no character. As for me I like seeing lots of guns and masts all over the place.
In the video my city La Spezia, I remember when I was a child, the navy band passed by at 11 pm, founded in my city in 1870, played this music in the streets of the center every night and all the sailors queued up to return to the Arsenal and the barracks its real name is La RItirata
“A popular impression in the United States of the Regia Marina, the Italian Navy, during World War II is that because its powerful surface fleet spent so much time in port, it was more effective as a fleet in being - in other words, for what it could do - than for what it actually did. As with all generalities, there are exceptions, and in this case that exception was its Decima Flottiglia MAS (10th Light Flotilla), one of the most effective units in the history of special operations.”
Stanotte o marinar si dorme nel quartier... la bella nave Italica in porto affonda l'ancora! La vita di città è un mare di piacer... ma già le nove suonano, in marcia pel quartier! Marinaro... guarda appena! qui più che sul mar fa stragi la sirena... Hai la nave, tu nel core? bada che l'amore fa tutto scordar! Marinar la ritirata già t'appella, ma la notte è bella e d'amar favella.... Marinar non tardar la tua nave non devi scordar che resta sola in mar! Nel tacito quartier riposa il marinar ma gli occhi non si chiudono e l'ore lente passano... La cara nave � l� abbandonata al mar dell'acque che la baciano perfin geloso ei par! Marinaio... io son crudele ben più dell'amor la nave t'è fedele... Occhi belli azzurri o neri mutan desideri... mio bel marinar! Marinar la ritirata già t'appella, ma la notte è bella e d'amar favella... Marinar non tardar la tua nave non devi scordar che resta sola in mar! In piedi o marinar saluta il tuo quartier di già i cannoni tuonano staman le navi partono! Non c'è da lagrimar D' addio da dir non c'è la nave è suolo italico la Patria vien con te!!! La tua nave gloriosa senti o marinar : t'è madre... t'è sposa! Ti s'affida ed in te spera! l'itala bandiera in mano ti sta! Marinar la ritirata già t'appella, ma la notte è bella e d'amar favella... Marinar non tardar la tua nave non devi scordar che resta sola in mar!
@@erikaitsumi3852 true, it wasn't meant to fight in the Atlantic, for sure. But at the beginning of the war it far outclassed the US navy and it made not a few British admirals quite concerned, so I think the overall recogniton our navy gets is unfair
@@erikaitsumi3852 well it's obvious as it was designed to achieve dominance in the mediterranean sea, so the atlantic wasn't take in consideration while it was built
@@aquila9810 yeah I’m trying to say, most people are interested in Germany vs Britain having large naval engagements in the Atlantic. And Italy is wrongly seen as a meme with many people forgetting that they evening had a navy that was effectively fighting back the British.
Can't blame me for somewhat supporting Mussolini wanting to have established his dream of creating a new Roman Empire. It's even more of a shame that he sided with Germany, because Italy would have kept It's colonial empire otherwise.
@@jackmorass but the same happened between mussolini and hitler, fascism has always been somewhat anigermanic in the early stages, mediterreanism (the idea that mediterrean people are culturally superior to northen europeans), and ww1 antiaustrian rhetoric played a huge role in the birth of the fascist doctrine. But after the invasion of ethiopia (nazi germany secretely supported and supplied ethiopia btw) the relationship between france, uk and italy deteriorated, italy was isolated and this forced her to get more intimate with germany, then it became apparent that italy needed to fight against france and the uk to secure her supremacy over the mediterrean and expand its colonial empire, but who else was willing to fight france and the uk? Only that annoying austrian fanboy in berlin, mussolini thought "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" and joined the alliance
The Italians were successful with frogmen and mini subs. When the Japanese attacked the British Navy, the British could not muster adequate naval reinforcements. Many of the ships the British high command wanted in the Pacific were sunk or put out of action in the Mediterranean by Italian frogmen and torpedo planes.
Damn! Italians even flirt with their ships!
I mean, have you seen our ships? Sexiest fleet ever
@@andreabianchi6156 They sure are, I'm jealous!
and tanks
Damn sure we are!
There's a say here in the Italian Navy: "Tratta la tua nave come una signora e lei ti tratterà allo stesso modo", that is translated in "Treat your ship like a lady and she'll treat you likewise in return"
Actual Italian Sailor here
The navy of true sculpture and beautiful ships, also that's great footage.
When you unlock an Italian warship in WOWS
Italian battleships, out now!
@@anaveragesoviettankfromthe70s and they are very very powerful and good
Testo in italiano: Stanotte o marinar', si dorme nel quartier'!
La novella nave italica nel porto affonda l'ancora
La vita di città è un mare di piacer'
Ma già le nove suonano, in marcia nel quartier'
Marinaro guarda appena
Qui più che sul mar, fa stragi la sirena
Hai la nave tu nel core?
Bada che l'amore fa tutto scordar'.
RIT Marinar', la ritirata già t'appella
Ma la notte è bella e l'amor favella
Marinar',non tardar'
La tua nave non devi scordar'
Che resta sola in mar! RIT
Nel tacito quartier', riposa il marinar'
Ma gli occhi non si chiudono e le ore lente passano
La cara nave là, abbandonata al mar
Dall'acque che la baciano perfin geloso ei par!
Marinaro, io son crudele
Ben più dell'amor
La nave ti è fedele
Occhi belli, azzurri o neri
Mutan desideri, mio bel marinar'!
RIT Marinar', la ritirata già t'appella
Ma la notte è bella e l'amor favella
Marinar',non tardar'
La tua nave non devi scordar'
Che resta sola in mar! RIT
In piedi, o marinar', saluta il tuo quartier'
Di già i cannoni tuonano
Staman' le navi partono
Non c'è da lacrimar, addio da dir non c'è
La nave, il suolo italico, la patria vien con te!
La tua nave gloriosa
Senti o marinar', è tua madre, è tua sposa
Ti s'affida ed irte spera
Grida: la bandiera in mano ti sta!
RIT Marinar', la ritirata già t'appella
Ma la notte è bella e l'amor favella
Marinar',non tardar'
La tua nave non devi scordar'
Che resta sola in mar! RIT
Marinar', la ritirata già t'appella
Ma la notte è bella e l'amor favella
Marinar',non tardar'
La tua nave non devi scordar'
Che resta sola in mar! RIT
Much obliged
@@baraodocerroazul You are welcome!
Que hermosa letra tiene esta marcha
Italy had a strong navy, even Britain was afraid of it.
They were scary enough to bog down the British Mediterranean fleet. This a huge fleet, that has been blocked because of the Regina Maria.
Their submarines were incredibly successful
The problem of the italians was not having radars
@@nibbles9357 Italians got very lucky at mataplan if british hadn't went for wrong target
@@kingsman4628 ✋ (non sono fascista eh)
as a Canadian i love the "Regia Marina" most beautiful ship of the war imo... and i believe it
Viva l'Italia!
“This revisionist history convincingly argues that the Regia Marina Italiana (the Royal Italian Navy) has been neglected and maligned in assessments of its contributions to the Axis effort in World War II. After all, Italy was the major Axis player in the Mediterranean, and it was the Italian navy and air force, with only sporadic help from their German ally, that stymied the British navy and air force for most of the thirty-nine months that Italy was a belligerent. It was the Royal Italian Navy that provided the many convoys that kept the Axis war effort in Africa alive by repeatedly braving attack by aircraft, submarine, and surface vessels. If doomed by its own technical weaknesses and Ultra (the top-secret British decoding device), the Italian navy still fought a tenacious and gallant war; and if it did not win that war, it avoided defeat for thirty-nine, long, frustrating months.”
Had Italian ships been equipped with radar and the Allies didn't have the enormous advantage of breaking Enigma, victory for the Allies would have been much tougher at sea.
Oh indeed, and there's a reason why certain Italian ships were taken into post-war service by several nations besides Italy itself. They served for several decades afterwards in fact, a credit to their skillful construction and design. Even now, Italian shipyards turn out fine vessels for many nations besides their own, a testament to a long and rich tradition.
And also if the navy and Air force had not been in such a rivalty
The Regia Marina certainly had some beautiful warships, from pre dreadnoughts to 1945. 🇮🇹
Non abiamo pensato di costruire almeno una porta aerei ,è stato uno sbalglio.
@@tropicottanta6015 Per la sbagliata convinzione che l'Italia fosse già una portaerei naturale
FALSO
IGNORANTE
NE AVEVAMO DUE PRONTE
sabotate dai traditori disertori
@@tropicottanta6015
QUANDO LA PRESUNZIONE DEGLI
IGNORANTI
PARTORISCE
L' IGNAVIA
DEI
montanari
rubagalline
@@FiammaNera1917in realtà è abbastanza giusto. Dato che sulle operazioni nel mediterraneo, non c'era un grande bisogno di portaerei. Dato che la Regia Aeronautica poteva operare tranquillamente. Una portaerei avrebbe garantito ai piloti un maggior numero di ore in volo. Oltre al fatto che la Regia Marina in questo modo possedeva la propria squadriglia di aerei. Dato che era cosa nota che la Regia Marina e la Regia Aeronautica non si sopportavano e non collaboravano tra loro. L'unica volta che hanno collaborato si ha ottenuto una schiacciante vittoria prendendo a calci gli inglesi. Quindi molto probabilmente si riusciva ad annientare la Royal navy (dato che le navi italiane erano di molto superiore a quelle inglesi) se la Regia Aeronautica e Marina collaboravano un pochino in più. Ma soprattutto se la Supermarina non era un covo di traditori. Dato che furono anche loro tra l'altro, a fermare la costruzione della portaerei Aquila che era per il 90% completa
bruh...this legit sounds like it's a love song between the sailor and his ship,
this also goes good with Azur Lane lol.
lo é
The Italian battleships are very beautiful outside and inside. The interior of the turret and it's machinery looks as shiny as a polished roman shield. The 15 in Guns of littorio class have same muzzle velocity as the 18 in guns on Yamato. Which is why they have similar range, Yamato has a little more tho.
That inicial high speed velocity was requested by Regia Marina specifically to increase range but our the full 35 kilometers was never hit . And moreover it created quite a bad side effect as being a terrible shell dispersion
VIVA ITALIA!
Lmao hipper μ
@@gabry4642 yes hipper is here to aid the Italian efforts in the Mediterranean
I will bring roon and the scharnhorst sisters then along with tirpitz
@@herrevan5678 just dont get intercepted by allied naval forces
@@herrevan5678 yo Evan wassup
the song is pretty good ...
Italy had a strong navy.
Still has one
I hate how underrated the Regia Marina is. They had some amazing ships, the Zara-class (my personal favorites) were considered one of the best cruisers in the world alongside the Littorio-class fast battleships. They were just bogged down by lack of fuel and lack of cooperation with the Air Force
"The Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) of World War II had capable professional officers, gallant sailors, and beautiful fast ships designed by gifted engineers. What it didn’t have was petroleum, and that was fatal. As British Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon observed at the end of World War I, the Allies “floated to victory on a sea of oil.”
Nevertheless, for 39 months, the Italian navy took many hard knocks and dished out a few to the vaunted British Royal Navy, fighting not only on the Mediterranean, but also in the Red Sea, the Atlantic, the Indian Ocean, and even on Russia’s distant Lake Ladoga.”
My dad was in Naples as a teenager, and would later serve in North Africa, el Alamein and el Guettar...he recalled that after dinner, the navy band would play this march as they paraded through the main streets of the city...sailors from all over would then join them on the way back to their ships....an effective way to collect the personnel previously spread all over town....
Sounds too romantic, in my opinion, on how parades/music summon back men to their stations.
But if it's true, then perhaps life really is stranger than fiction.
I recognised heavy cruiser Trento and battleship Giulio cesare and battleship littorio veneto
My beautiful Italian Mama , tall , big blue eyes was very Patriotic ...Her Father had won the " Medagllia d' Oro al Valore Militare " , Italian Victoria Cross equivalent , usually postumuos , He had been an Italian Infantry Soldier in the Isonzo Front , WW I .
Italians are Passionate People , they LOVE Beauty ...and will Fight to Death if they have a Good Leader and a Good cause.
The Regia Marina perhaps was the most powerful Italian military branch at this point. And at least in terms of a surface fleet more powerful than the Kreigsmarine. Of course the Germans had the submarine fleet to compensate of course. And for a regional fleet instead of a empire spanning one a pretty good one.
This is from the time when warships looked like warships, not like the boxy, boring ships of today with no character. As for me I like seeing lots of guns and masts all over the place.
safety tends to come at a price. Not that I hate modern ships, they're quite a beaut at doing their job
The italian ships were like floating artworks😍😍😍
yes
In the video my city La Spezia, I remember when I was a child, the navy band passed by at 11 pm, founded in my city in 1870, played this music in the streets of the center every night and all the sailors queued up to return to the Arsenal and the barracks its real name is La RItirata
IT'S COMING ROME
hhh a commie
"The Italian Royal Navy"*
Yes, we had that in WW2, regia marina (Translated in Regal Navy)
“A popular impression in the United States of the Regia Marina, the Italian Navy, during World War II is that because its powerful surface fleet spent so much time in port, it was more effective as a fleet in being - in other words, for what it could do - than for what it actually did. As with all generalities, there are exceptions, and in this case that exception was its Decima Flottiglia MAS (10th Light Flotilla), one of the most effective units in the history of special operations.”
1:00 I always understand "Pizza Mozzarella"
Amazing song 🎵 brings back nostalgia
cool as fuck
Италия и Румыния родные объединяйтесь
Stanotte o marinar
si dorme nel quartier...
la bella nave Italica
in porto affonda l'ancora!
La vita di città
è un mare di piacer...
ma già le nove suonano,
in marcia pel quartier!
Marinaro... guarda appena!
qui più che sul mar
fa stragi la sirena...
Hai la nave, tu nel core?
bada che l'amore
fa tutto scordar!
Marinar la ritirata già t'appella,
ma la notte è bella
e d'amar favella....
Marinar non tardar
la tua nave non devi scordar
che resta sola in mar!
Nel tacito quartier
riposa il marinar
ma gli occhi non si chiudono
e l'ore lente passano...
La cara nave � l�
abbandonata al mar
dell'acque che la baciano
perfin geloso ei par!
Marinaio... io son crudele
ben più dell'amor
la nave t'è fedele...
Occhi belli azzurri o neri
mutan desideri...
mio bel marinar!
Marinar la ritirata già t'appella,
ma la notte è bella
e d'amar favella...
Marinar non tardar
la tua nave non devi scordar
che resta sola in mar!
In piedi o marinar
saluta il tuo quartier
di già i cannoni tuonano
staman le navi partono!
Non c'è da lagrimar
D' addio da dir non c'è
la nave è suolo italico
la Patria vien con te!!!
La tua nave gloriosa
senti o marinar :
t'è madre... t'è sposa!
Ti s'affida ed in te spera!
l'itala bandiera
in mano ti sta!
Marinar la ritirata già t'appella,
ma la notte è bella
e d'amar favella...
Marinar non tardar
la tua nave non devi scordar
che resta sola in mar!
The Italian navy was not a complete joke. It often managed to use mini subs to great affect against the British
Our navy was only second to Britain's in Europe and 4th in the world by tonnage and firepower, I'd say it wasn't a joke by any means
@@andreabianchi6156 just not suited for Atlantic combat which is why it’s often side lined
@@erikaitsumi3852 true, it wasn't meant to fight in the Atlantic, for sure. But at the beginning of the war it far outclassed the US navy and it made not a few British admirals quite concerned, so I think the overall recogniton our navy gets is unfair
@@erikaitsumi3852 well it's obvious as it was designed to achieve dominance in the mediterranean sea, so the atlantic wasn't take in consideration while it was built
@@aquila9810 yeah I’m trying to say, most people are interested in Germany vs Britain having large naval engagements in the Atlantic. And Italy is wrongly seen as a meme with many people forgetting that they evening had a navy that was effectively fighting back the British.
Italian Lyrics When?
When I have fun winning battles and not dying in wows:
Bravi
The British Navy had to use pineapples to sink Italian ships.
ready for world of warship
What movie is the last scene from with the italian frogmen?
It's not a movie, it's from a british documentary about the operation, you can find it easily on TH-cam
@@luigin649 can you link it to me?
The Enemy Below. Not a bad film but the end is falsified history.
We had a fabulous Navy but...
In the video are there also other navy, usa seems
NO
And boys, here you can see where the SEAL come from
Stolz wegt die Flagge Grün- Weiß- Rot ! 💚🤍❤
o/ Hail Italia
Can't blame me for somewhat supporting Mussolini wanting to have established his dream of creating a new Roman Empire. It's even more of a shame that he sided with Germany, because Italy would have kept It's colonial empire otherwise.
He was great except for the genocide and racism
If it wasn’t for that and siding with the nazis I would. Not have a issue
molto difficile che un dittatore si allei con una democrazia
@@gloomsouls only because the US use the "the enemy of my enemy is mi friend" strategy.
@@jackmorass but the same happened between mussolini and hitler, fascism has always been somewhat anigermanic in the early stages, mediterreanism (the idea that mediterrean people are culturally superior to northen europeans), and ww1 antiaustrian rhetoric played a huge role in the birth of the fascist doctrine. But after the invasion of ethiopia (nazi germany secretely supported and supplied ethiopia btw) the relationship between france, uk and italy deteriorated, italy was isolated and this forced her to get more intimate with germany, then it became apparent that italy needed to fight against france and the uk to secure her supremacy over the mediterrean and expand its colonial empire, but who else was willing to fight france and the uk? Only that annoying austrian fanboy in berlin, mussolini thought "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" and joined the alliance
Bella ma non a livello di Serra e le sue canzoni
Viva l’Italia!.