Battle of Cape Bon

When

13 Dec 1941

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

36.75° N, 10.75° E

Description

1941 naval battle

Naval

yes

War

World War II

Naval battle of Tunisia during WWII

The naval Battle of Cape Bon took place on 13 December 1941 during the Second World War, between two Italian light cruisers and a British–Dutch destroyer flotilla, off Cape Bon in Tunisia.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “WWII: The Battle of Cape Bon is fought off Cape Bon, Tunisia: Italian cruisers Alberico da Barbiano and Alberto di Giussano are sunk without loss to the Allies”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “défaite navale italienne à la bataille du cap Bon”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Бой у мыса Бон: сражение итальянских лёгких крейсеров «Альберико да Барбиано» и «Альберто да Джуссано» с тремя английскими эсминцами («Легион», «Маори»,…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• World War II1 Sep 1939 · World war · Deaths 75,000,000