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Hell Raiders Of The Deep
''Hell Raiders of the Deep'' (Original Italian title: ''I sette dell'Orsa maggiore'' 'The Seven Men of Great Bear') is 1953 Italian film based on the events of the Raid on Alexandria in 1941 by frogmen of the Decima Flottiglia MAS human torpedoes. It was released in the United Kingdom as ''Human Torpedoes'' and in France and Belgium as ''Panique à Gibraltar'' (''Panic in Gibraltar''). It was directed by Duilio Coletti and produced by Carlo Ponti and Luigi De Laurentiis, with a score by Nino Rota and a screenplay by Giuseppe Berto and Marcantonio Bragadin Plot The events are a little modified and presented in a more favorable way for the Royal Navy. Namely, the damaging of HMS ''Valiant'' is just mentioned in a statement at the end of the movie, the two Italians are evacuated from the room under sea level before the explosion while in reality they had been placed there again after Durand De La Penne had told Morgan about the next explosion, and lastly the news suppression about t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raid On Alexandria (1941)
The Raid on Alexandria was carried out on 19 December 1941 by Italian Navy divers of the Decima Flottiglia MAS, who attacked and disabled two Royal Navy battleships in the harbour of Alexandria, Egypt, using manned torpedoes. Background On 3 December, the submarine of the Italian Royal Navy (''Regia Marina'') under the command of lieutenant Junio Valerio Borghese left the naval base of La Spezia carrying three manned torpedoes, nicknamed ''maiali'' (pigs) by the Italians. At the island of Leros in the Aegean Sea, the submarine secretly picked up six crewmen for them: Luigi Durand de la Penne and Emilio Bianchi ( ''maiale'' nº 221), Vincenzo Martellotta and Mario Marino (''maiale'' nº 222), and Antonio Marceglia and Spartaco Schergat (''maiale'' nº 223). Raid On 19 December, ''Scirè''—at a depth of —released the manned torpedoes from Alexandria commercial harbour, and they entered the naval base when the British opened their defenses to let three of their destroyers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
