The Night Radar Ambush That Crushed Italy's Fleet #short #history #ww2

The Battle of Cape Matapan, fought March 27–29, 1941, off southern Greece, was the Royal Navy's greatest fleet victory of the war. It began with intelligence: codebreakers at Bletchley Park decrypted Italian naval signals, revealing that a fleet led by the battleship Vittorio Veneto was at sea. Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham used the warning to set a trap. After daylight air strikes from carrier HMS Formidable crippled the cruiser Pola, the Italian commander unknowingly sent the cruisers Zara and Fiume back toward the closing British battleships. That night, radar aboard the British ships — technology the Italians lacked — detected the cruisers at close range. Searchlights illuminated them, and the battleships opened fire point-blank, destroying three Italian heavy cruisers and two destroyers within minutes, for the loss of a single Allied aircraft.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_Matapan

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