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    BETASOM (an Italian language acronym of Bordeaux Sommergibile or Sommergibili) was a submarine base established at Bordeaux, France by the Regia Marina...
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    After Provana's 1940 sinking, the remaining boats were transferred to the BETASOM Atlantic submarine base at Bordeaux in August 1940. After four boats had...
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    one ship on its first BETASOM patrol from Bordeaux. After an unsuccessful patrol, Marconi sank three ships on its third BETASOM patrol and damaged a Yugoslavian...
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    outside Italian-occupied France. Operating from Bordeaux Sommergibile ("BETASOM") as it was known, thirty-two Italian submarines participated in the Battle...
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    Admiral Angelo Parona as the commanding officer of BETASOM. During Polacchini's command, BETASOM submarines saw the peak in their activity, successfully...
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    German occupation. From 1941 to 1943, the Italian Royal Navy established BETASOM, a submarine base at Bordeaux. Italian submarines participated in the Battle...
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    Al 1990 – Pagina 5 - Gli Eventi e le Battaglie - Betasom - XI Gruppo Sommergibili Atlantici". betasom.it. Retrieved 24 November 2016. Wikimedia Commons...
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    command of the Italian Submarine Forces in the Atlantic, better known BETASOM. Parona arrived in Bordeaux at the end of August 1940 and quickly organized...
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    where Liuzzi was sunk. The three surviving boats were transferred to the BETASOM Atlantic submarine base at Bordeaux in 1940. After Tarantini was sunk,...
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    primarily as a land unit of the RSI. Some of the naval personnel at the BETASOM submarine base in Bordeaux, France, remained loyal to Mussolini. The fall...
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  • honouring a commitment to Germany to help in the Atlantic campaign. Code-named BETASOM, this force was stationed at Bordeaux in Occupied France. 32 boats in total...
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    From August 1940, a flotilla of 27 Italian submarines operated from the BETASOM base in Bordeaux to attack Allied shipping in the Atlantic, initially under...
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    wrecksite.eu. Retrieved August 5, 2023. Il Santuario Di N S Di Bonaria - Betasom - XI Gruppo Sommergibili Atlantici (in Italian). Trentoincina (in Italian)...
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    Kriegsmarine. The Italian submarines were based in Bordeaux, France at the BETASOM base. While more suited for the Mediterranean Sea than the Atlantic Ocean...
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    Marconi, Galileo Ferraris, Perla and Archimede sailed from Massawa for BETASOM, an Italian submarine flotilla operating in the Atlantic at Bordeaux. The...
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    boats and minelayers to use it. The Royal Italian Navy established the Betasom base at Bordeaux. The port was also the target of a British commando raid...
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    Soon after completion, Cappellini was transferred to the new base of Betasom, in Bordeaux, to participate in the Battle of the Atlantic. On the night...
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  • starring James Mason. The story is based on events that took place at Betasom, a submarine base established at Bordeaux by the Italian Navy during World...
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  • Bordeaux on 18 December 1940. Michele Bianchi sank four ships on her first BETASOM patrol from Bordeaux; but the next patrol from 30 April to 30 May 1941...
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    to the shores of the Baltic Sea. The Italian Royal Navy establishes its BETASOM submarine base in Bordeaux and joins the "Battle of the Atlantic." 1-4...
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  • Schiaffino Trentoincina (in Italian). Guglielmo Concato E La Tp Schiaffino - Betasom - XI Gruppo Sommergibili Atlantici (in Italian) Kennedy, Ludovic (1975)...
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    Bordeaux in occupied France to serve in the Italian submarine flotilla there, BETASOM. She arrived October 1940 after a successful transit of the Straits of...
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  • La Spezia and now is preserved for the public. "A Bordo Dell' Anteo". Betasom - XI Gruppo Sommergibili Atlantici. 21 July 2016. "Naval Technical Museum...
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    Cappellini carried out several war patrols in the Atlantic Ocean while based in BETASOM, sinking 31,648 gross registered ton of enemy shipping. She participated...
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    War I. Fraccaroli 1985, pp. 252, 290. Il Santuario Di N S Di Bonaria - Betasom - XI Gruppo Sommergibili Atlantici (in Italian). "French Navy". Naval History...
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    Retrieved 2017-08-20. "Italian Submarine Rescue Vehicle Srv-300 - Tecnica". Betasom.it. 12 July 2005. Retrieved 2017-08-20. Portals: Italy Engineering...
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    The Italian Navy established a submarine base at Bordeaux, code named BETASOM, and thirty-two Italian submarines participated in the Battle of the Atlantic...
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    Navy (Regia Marina) converted seven Italian submarines operating from BETASOM into "transport submarines" in order to exchange rare or irreplaceable...
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    [http://www.betasom.it/forum/index.php?s=726a5728314dbf6e949760e2d274497f&showtopic=23309&pid=313356&st=0#entry313356 Classe Medusa (1910) - Betasom - XI Gruppo...
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    convoy OB 188. July 31, 1940 U-99 sinks Jersey City from convoy OB 191. BETASOM base opens in Bordeaux for Italian submarine patrols into the Atlantic...
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