Carlo Fecia di Cossato

Carlo Fecia di Cossato (born September 25, 1908 in Rome , † August 27, 1944 in Naples ) was an Italian naval officer.

Career

Fecia di Cossato was trained at the Naval Academy in Livorno and was promoted to lieutenant in the sea in 1928 . After a brief mission at sea, he was transferred to an Italian naval command in Tianjin ( Republic of China ). After this use he served on submarines and took part during the Spanish Civil War a . a. participated in two special missions in Spanish waters.

At the outbreak of the Second World War he was in command of the submarine Ciro Menotti stationed in Messina , shortly afterwards he took over the boat Tazzoli, which operates in the Atlantic ( Bordeaux ) . In the Atlantic he sank 18 merchant ships (96,553 GRT) and damaged a few others. For these missions he received u. a. also high German awards. After a mission off the coast of Brazil , he took over a torpedo boat squadron in Italy in February 1943 .

When the armistice with the Allies came into effect on September 8, 1943 , Fecia di Cossato was in the Corsican port of Bastia with his torpedo boat Aliseo together with German units . On Hitler's orders, German troops tried to disarm the Italians, who also opposed this according to orders. Cossato initially ran out with the Aliseo and then attacked the German units in Bastia, which had previously captured the sister ship Ardito . The Germans lost two submarine hunters, a torpedo boat (TA 11) and four guard boats.

Because of the adverse course of the war for Italy and the developments after the armistice, he committed suicide on August 27, 1944 in Naples.

The Italian Navy named a Sauro- class submarine after Carlo Fecia di Cossato.

Web links

• Information on Fecia di Cossato on marina.difesa.it

Individual evidence

1. ^ Clay Blair : Der U-Boot-Krieg, Die Jäger 1939-1942 , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-453-12345-X , p. 850