Japanese and Italians clash at Tientsin 1943

[Peter H]

Something about the Italian surrender of 1943 and the Japanese response in China:

http://www.geocities.com/dutcheastindies/shanghai.html

[Korbius]

Very interesting story Moulded, keep on posting such exotic articles

[The Desert Fox]

Now that is a facisinating tale. Certainly an area of Italian involvment in ww2 I have never heard off.

regards
The desert fox

[Zachary]

Who would have thought the Italains and Japanese would have fought? These little stories are very interesting

[HMan]

Original link is dead, an internet archive has saved version of it at:

http://web.archive.org/web/200211070117 ... nghai.html

This has the following:

"after the surrender of Germany, in May 8th 1945, about twenty Italian sailors continued the war allied with Japanese.
Just to know, submarine Torelli was even operative until August, 30th, 1945 when in Japan waters, the anti-aircraft
guns of this last Italian unit in Far East succeeded to down an American bomber B-25 Mitchell, what was also the last
victory of a "Japanese" naval unit."

Is that true? That was 2 weeks after Japanese surrender.

I did a search on Torelli & it supposedly is one of only 2 ships to serve under all 3 Axis flags.

[The 51st Division]

Yes I have heard of this tale on Chinese WW2 forums as well, quite fascinating indeed.

[HMan]

I am thinking if the August, 30th, 1945 date is right
it would probably be a USSR B-25.

I re-posted the information in my last post, in
an expanded "Last Soviet aircraft losses of WWII"
in USSR at war section of the forum.

http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... 9&t=225734

So far no responses.