Battle of the Duisburg Convoy
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Battle of the Duisburg Convoy
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The Battle of the Duisburg Convoy was fought on the night of 8/9 November 1941 between an Italian convoy, its escorts and four British ships. The convoy was named BETA by the Italian naval authorities and carried supplies for the Italian Army civilian colonists and the Afrika Korps in Italian Libya. Force K of the Royal Navy, based at Malta, was sent to attack the convoy based on information gleaned from decrypts of Axis signals coded on the Enigma machine, covered by the fortuitous flight of a
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Duisburg_Convoy
date created:
2006-10-17T17:00:58Z
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2024-08-29T22:50:32Z
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