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weighing 15, 20 or 50 kilograms. Then the four three-engine bombers took off. In command of the first aircraft, which gained height with difficulty from the Rhodes-GadurrĂ  runway because it was overloaded with 19,500 kilograms, was Lieutenant Colonel Muti. He was assisted by Major Giovanni Raina and by Captain Paolo Moci, who had previous experience in flying planes overloaded up to 21 tons. ... The SM82s, after gaining height (a manoeuvre which took remarkable efforts because of the enormous weight of the aircraft) headed east, flying over Cyprus, Lebanon and Syria, bending to the southeast as they went past Jordan and Iraq until they reached the Persian Gulf. During the very long outward flight, the role of Muti's SM82 pathfinder proved its essential function in leading the squadron. ... At 2.20 am, just before reaching the Bahrain Islands, Lieutenant Colonel Federici's aircraft suddenly lost sight contact with Muti's SM82 and had to drop its bombs on different targets in the vicinity of Manama, while the other planes hit the fixed target. As bombardier Raina later told "the operation of spotting the target was easy thanks to the total illumination of the extractive and refinery plants" which were partially damaged by the bombs (half a dozen wells and some oil deposits were set on fire). As soon as they perceived the glares of the first explosions, the Italian planes made off along the escape route landing to the Zula runway (Eritrea) at 8 8:40.The whole Italian formation had flown 2,400 kilometres in 15.30 hours. At the Eritrean airport, along with a small crowd of Italian aviators, the brave pilots found the fourth SM82 squadron which, in the meantime, had come from Rhodes as a support plane on the way back, should one of the crafts make an emergency landing in the desert. — Alberto Rosselli
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and his comrades spent four days working on a complete revision of the plans and established a complex flight plan. ... On December 18, at 5.10 pm, after filling both the normal and the supplementary tanks, they loaded three out of four SM82s with 1.5 tons of incendiary and explosive bombs
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The Italian Command intended to employ the special SM82s to bomb the English oil plants of Manama, in the Persian Gulf, in order to show the potential ability of the Italian air force. It was a long and difficult mission involving a 4,000 kilometre flight.
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wrote that the Italians insisted that the planes had been refueled from submarine tankers though in actuality, the planes had simply been loaded with fuel.
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some concerns, forcing them to upgrade their defenses. This, more than the limited amount of damage caused, further stretched Allied military resources.
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declared that their bombers had set a new distance record, covering 3,000 miles on the outgoing trip from bases located in the island of
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During the attack 132 bombs of 15 kgs each were dropped, that heavily damaged two refineries.
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was short-lived and the French signed an armistice with the Italians on 25 June, three days after
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received a plan to destroy the oil fields in Bahrain in order to disrupt the oil supplies to the
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in summer 1943 that never became true. Even a commercial aerial trip was done between
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bombers attacked American-operated oil refineries in the British Protectorate of
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The Bahrain raid was followed by other long-distance Italian raids on
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and Eritrea in 1942, and would have been repeated -with an advanced
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Indeed, in order to strike the British-controlled oil refineries at
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Italian bombing of Mandatory Palestine in World War II
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In summer 1940, the Italian leader and Prime Minister
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in Saudi Arabia, but causing only some minor damage.
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for the Italians to contend with in the Middle East.
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Battles of World War II involving the United Kingdom
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similar to those used in the Italian raid on Bahrain
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Index

World War II

SM.82s
Bahrain
Dhahran
Saudi Arabia
Italy
United Kingdom
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
Bahrain
Fascist Italy
Ettore Muti
United Kingdom
Charles Geoffrey Prior
Bahrain
Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa
Saudi Arabia
Ibn Saud
Savoia-Marchetti SM.82
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Mediterranean and Middle East Theatre
Adriatic
North Africa
East Africa
Mediterranean Sea
Gibraltar
Malta

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