Basic Overview
Date: 22 June 1944
Scope: Minor
Nature: Sea, Anti-ship/submarine
Status: Implemented
Scope: Minor
Nature: Sea, Anti-ship/submarine
Status: Implemented
Theater
- Italy
Nations Involved
- UK
- Germany
Operation Details
'QWC' was a British operation against German warships and shipping in the harbour of La Spezia on the north-west coast of occupied Italy (22 June 1944).
,The British lost two chariot (human torpedoes), but the British and Italian frogmen involved attached charges to the ex-Italian heavy cruisers Gorizia and Bolzano as well as the 4,780-ton steamer Savagana, all of which sank after the charges had detonated and holed them.
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