Basic Overview
Date: 28 October 1942
Scope: Minor
Nature: Sea, Convoy
Status: Implemented
Scope: Minor
Nature: Sea, Convoy
Status: Implemented
Theater
- Mediterranean Sea
Nations Involved
- Italy
- UK
Operation Details
'J' (iii) was an Italian convoy operation across the Mediterranean (28 October 1942).
,Bound from Taranto in southern Italy to Tobruk in North Africa, the convoy comprised one transport and one tanker, escorted by the destroyer Granatiere and the torpedo boats Fortunale and San Martino. The convoy came under British air attack, and the 2,552-ton tanker Luisiano was sunk by an air-launched torpedo.
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