BETASOM (an Italian language acronym of Bordeaux Sommergibile or Sommergibili) was a submarine base established at Bordeaux, France by the Regia Marina...

After Provana's 1940 sinking, the remaining boats were transferred to the BETASOM Atlantic submarine base at Bordeaux in August 1940. After four boats had...

German occupation. From 1941 to 1943, the Italian Royal Navy established BETASOM, a submarine base at Bordeaux. Italian submarines participated in the Battle...

Admiral Angelo Parona as the commanding officer of BETASOM. During Polacchini's command, BETASOM submarines saw the peak in their activity, successfully...

command of the Italian Submarine Forces in the Atlantic, better known BETASOM. Parona arrived in Bordeaux at the end of August 1940 and quickly organized...

one ship on its first BETASOM patrol from Bordeaux. After an unsuccessful patrol, Marconi sank three ships on its third BETASOM patrol and damaged a Yugoslavian...

primarily as a land unit of the RSI. Some of the naval personnel at the BETASOM submarine base in Bordeaux, France, remained loyal to Mussolini. The fall...

honouring a commitment to Germany to help in the Atlantic campaign. Code-named BETASOM, this force was stationed at Bordeaux in occupied France. 32 boats in total...

Al 1990 – Pagina 5 - Gli Eventi e le Battaglie - Betasom - XI Gruppo Sommergibili Atlantici". betasom.it. Retrieved 24 November 2016. Wikimedia Commons...

From August 1940, a flotilla of 27 Italian submarines operated from the BETASOM base in Bordeaux to attack Allied shipping in the Atlantic, initially under...