Betasom

BETASOM (an Italian language acronym of Bordeaux Sommergibile or Sommergibili) was a submarine base established at Bordeaux, France by the Italian Navy (the Regia Marina Italiana) during the Second World War. From this base, Italian submarines participated in the Battle of the Atlantic from 1940 to 1943 as part of the Axis campaign against the Allied shipping. This illustrated history describes and illustrates the 30 or so Regia Marina Italiana submarines and the Italian submarine operations in the Atlantic during World War II.