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Originally Posted by ambrafoxtrot
Correct again: WWII was not over yet, when the Americans started to use Italian GAMMA operators personnel to train and put together their first combat swimmers team to employ in the Pacific. A bunch of traitors (or patriots) depending on the what point of view of the Italian Civil war 43-45 you see that from, accepted the American "request" to help create a "pilot" team of US swimmers, reverse engineer Italian classified equipment, and instruct the Americans on all the operative procedures of the GAMMA operators of the X MAS
Source OSS declassified documentation. Let me know if you want me to send you a PDF copy.
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Well that wouldn't suprise me that much as most of the US post-war space and rocket program was built on German rocket scientists and Nazi data, and they gave amnesties to Japanese germ warfare scientists who turned over their data to the US after experimenting on people during the war. I don't think the Italians realy had their hearts in the Axis during WW2, as they toppled Mussolini very quickly after the Allies invaded Sicily.
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Originally Posted by ambrafoxtrot
As for the Sahayetet 13 creation back in the late forties, you just have to Google the name of the Grandfather (and honorary commander) of the unit:
"Fiorenzo Capriotti"
greetings
ambrafoxtrot
P.S. the pictures...can you see them ?.
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Well I can't say that I know much about Israeli naval special forces as they don't come up that much in the aspects of T2K and its a fairly obscure piece of history, but wasn't he a diehard fascisist?
But there is of course a difference between extreme Italian nationalists and Nazi's, as otherwise the Israelis would have shot him the first chance that they had.
Yes I can see the pictures
