Why Italy
who were the inhabitants of matera,bari(italy)/was matera attacked during world war 2?
i saw this above mentioned place via bbc world channel on 26th march,'07 around 12.30 am,the title of the programme was "francisco's italy tour-from head to toe".
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- On December 2, 1943 a German bombardment of the port of Bari, because the worst naval disaster ally of the Second World War after Pearl Harbor: 17 ships sunk and hundreds of victims. Thirty of Lutwaffe bombers attacked the port of Bari where they were concentrated over twenty allied ships, including the two all'iprite laden with bombs. The raid, meticulously prepared and conducted admirably, had devastating effects. Seventeen ships sunk, eight seriously damaged, destroyed the port, Stout losses among military personnel ally. An operation which the historiography was concerned only escaped, hastily, superficially. Absolutely not had leaked to the Americans wanted to use the aggressive chemical, which had not any moral qualms in using the gas. It was "motobombe FF" Italian construction. Bombs conventional 250 and 500 kilos, self-propelled, with propeller propulsion. They could be launched from any rate, since the weapon of special parachutes that reduced the rate of fall, stabilized at about 35/40 meters per second. The pilot parachute is automatically on where the bomb touched the water. In the bomb traveled, at the depth of about five meters, a spiral trajectory, for a development of about 15 kilometers in a time oscillating between 46 and 50 minutes. The bomb had three shuttles: percussion, and severing time. In a small, such as that of a port, although large bombs have proved deadly Among the ships hit one, the John Harvey, is charged with choking the gas spread in water and in due time and in the days following other hundreds of deaths, even among those who recovered the bodies of the victims from the wreck and the port basin. ...
