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Old 04-27-09, 07:03 AM   #351
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UIT-22 (ex Italian submarine Alpino Bagnolini)

Taken over by the Germans, following the Italian capitulation, at her Bordeaux, France base on 9 Sept, 1943.
Sunk 11 March, 1944 south of the Cape of Good Hope, in position 41.28S, 17.40E, by a South African aircraft. 43 dead (all hands lost).

UIT-23 (ex Italian submarine Reginaldo Giuliani)



Taken over by the Germans, following the Italian capitulation, at Singapore on 10 Sept, 1943.
Sunk 14 Feb, 1944 in the Straits of Malacca, in position 04.27N, 100.11E, by torpedoes from the British submarine HMS Tallyho. 26 dead, 14 survivors.

UIT-24 (ex Italian submarine Comandante Cappellini)

Taken over by the Germans, following the Italian capitulation, at Sabang in the Far East on 10 Sept, 1943.
Taken over by Japan at Kobe and recommissioned as I-503 or I-505 on 10 May, 1945. The boat was in Kobe at the time of the japanese surrender. Scuttled at Kii Suido on 16 April, 1946 by the US Navy.

UIT-25 (ex Italian submarine Luigi Torelli)

Commissioned in the german kreigsmarine on september 10, 1943
Taken over at Kobe, Japan on 10 May, 1945 and commissioned as I-504. After the japanese surrender the boat was scuttled by the Americans.
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