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Did we use them ourselves when they changed ends?

I think a number of them continued serving with the Italian Facists who served along side the Germans. They helped the KriegsMarine form their own midget submarine and Chariot submersibles. Mainly from Northern Italy the Italien Facist units fought quite hard. No five reverse gears and one forward for them.

A good little USN film about both groups.

 

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Some KriegsMarine explosive torpedo boat crews looking Ally with their Falschirmjager helmets.

 

[Helm]

Some KriegsMarine explosive torpedo boat crews looking Ally with their Falschirmjager helmets.

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Bloke at the front looks ecstatic at it all.

 

[Sam The Bam]

Bloke at the front looks ecstatic at it all.

Agreed, he has that what the feck am I doing here look about him

 

[Helm]

Agreed, he has that what the feck am I doing here look about him

Yup, if ever an expression said, this is shit. . .

 

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Yup, if ever an expression said, this is shit. . .

Well he knows that his next mission if he survives this one is parachuting into Norfolk dressed as a Polish paratrooper with a mission to assasinate Winston Churchill.

 

[wasteofrations2]

Well he knows that his next mission if he survives this one is parachuting into Norfolk dressed as a Polish paratrooper with a mission to assasinate Winston Churchill.

I think we are about to take up permanent residence here.

 

[paddyplanty]

Some KriegsMarine explosive torpedo boat crews looking Ally with their Falschirmjager helmets.

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Was that the craft that wasn't so much a torpedo boat as speedboat bomb - operator expected to bail out backwards before impact?

 

[NSP]

Good film "The silent enemy" where Lawrence Harvey played Buster Crabbe about these guys and the British in Gib

The Silent Enemy (1958 film) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Above Us The Waves, about the X-Craft attack on Tirpitz, opens with the team forming and training on/deploying chariots, if I remember rightly.

 

[NSP]

Was that the craft that wasn't so much a torpedo boat as speedboat bomb - operator expected to bail out backwards before impact?

Someone had a speedbomb that had the pilot at the stern and the backrest part fell away with them and formed their survival float. Think that was ze Germanz.

The Japanese had the Kaiten, I think it was called, which was basically a piloted torpedo. An underwater kamikaze, in essence.

 

[paddyplanty]

Someone had a speedbomb that had the pilot at the stern and the backrest part fell away with them and formed their survival float.

The Japanese had the Kaiten, I think it was called, which was basically a piloted torpedo. An underwater kamikaze, in essence.

Your first para. is the Italian one I'm thinking off - only a small craft but v. fast.

 

[par avion]

Was that the craft that wasn't so much a torpedo boat as speedboat bomb - operator expected to bail out backwards before impact?

Yes, its all explained in the OSS video I posted in #16,581 at about 16.50. The photo is taken from there.

 

[Stovepipe]

The ironic thing about the buster crabbe film was that sid James looked more like Crabbe than Harvey did.

 

[Chef]

Bloke at the front looks ecstatic at it all.

The bloke in front is an ex London cabbie working undercover. He's thinking,

'All that way and come back empty, I had that Donitz in the back last week.'

 

[smartascarrots]

Some KriegsMarine explosive torpedo boat crews looking Ally with their Falschirmjager helmets.

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What the **** was Mark Knopfler doing in the Kriegsmarine???

 

[Cold_Collation]

What the **** was Mark Knopfler doing in the Kriegsmarine???

He was in a band. Der Straits.

 

[Bodenplatte]

He was in a band. Der Straits.

Doing The Goosestep of Life.

 

[Pteranadon]

Did we use them ourselves when they changed ends?

As the armistice divided Italy and the armed forces in two, the same happened to the X° Mas. It practically ceased to exist as an operational fighting unit. Ernesto Forza, and officers previously capture by the Allies, such us Durand de La Penne and Marceglia, remained loyal to the King. They formed a new assault unit named “MARIASSALTO” and joined the Allies.

However, Commander Borghese chose to continue fighting alongside the Germans. He formed an elite infantry unit bearing the name “X° Mas.” This unit was one of the few Italian fighting forces employed by the Germans against Allied troops in Italy.

Decima MAS: Italian Frogmen - Comando Supremo

The Decima MAS, or Decima Flottiglia MAS, was an elite and effective flotilla of the Italian Navy in WWII. It was composed specially trained frogmen.

comandosupremo.com

 

[NSP]

What the **** was Mark Knopfler doing in the Kriegsmarine???

Are they brothers in arms...?

He's clearly not a single-handed sailor.

 

[_Chimurenga_]

Above Us The Waves, about the X-Craft attack on Tirpitz, opens with the team forming and training on/deploying chariots, if I remember rightly.

Funny this should be mentioned, I am currently reading the book. Their first successful attack was against an Italian warship, Ulpio Traiano, ironically enough.