With negligible air cover to protect the fleet, Cunningham requested one of the new armoured aircraft carriers despatched to the region to accompany the elderly HMS Eagle. The fleet was being plagued by the expert reconnaissance carried out by the Italian Regia Aeronautica which once it had identified the fleet coordinated high level bombing attacks tha…
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