Spartaco Schergat
Appearance
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Spartaco Schergat (1920, Capodistria -1996, Rome) was an Italian military frogman during WWII.
Biography
Schergat was born in Istria from an Italian irredentist and enrolled in the Royal Italian Navy in 1940.
He is famous because sank -with a "maiale"- the English battleship Queen Elizabeth in 1941 during the Raid on Alexandria. For this military action he received the Italian gold medal in the Second World War[1]
After 1943 he collaborated with the Allies until the end of the war.
Notes
Bibliography
- "Frogmen First Battles" by retired U.S Captain William Schofield's book. ISBN 0-8283-2088-8
- The Italian Navy in World War II by Marc'Antonio Bragadin, United States Naval Institute, Annapolis, 1957. ISBN 0-405-13031-7
- The Italian Navy in World War II by Sadkovich, James, Greenwood Press, Westport, 1994. ISBN 0-313-28797-X