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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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German occupation. From 1941 to 1943, the
Italian Royal Navy
established BETASOM, a
submarine base at Bordeaux.
Italian submarines parti****ted in the Battle...
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Admiral Angelo Parona as the
commanding officer of
BETASOM.
During ****chini's command,
BETASOM submarines saw the peak in
their activity, successfully...
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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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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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where Liuzzi was sunk. The
three surviving boats were
transferred to the
BETASOM Atlantic submarine base at
Bordeaux in 1940.
After Tarantini was sunk,...
- 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...
- 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...
