Excellent thought, Herr Generalfeldmarschall! I totally agree with you!

Except that I am not saying that the Kriegsmarine would have had to use the Italian ships... I am saying that if the Italians would have had as good officers as the ones you mention, with their (if not excellent) quite good equipment, things would have been a little different.

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