Förbaskat bra fråga Amund!
Men, som Eliza i My Fair Lady - ''jag tror jag har et....''
Jagaren var jugoslaviska BEOGRAD. Efter det tysk/italiensk/ungerska angreppet på Jugoslavien 1941 - planerade juggarna ett angrepp på
den italienska enklaven Zara....
''Kotor was close to the Albanian border and the Italo-Greek front there, but Zara (Zadar), an Italian enclave, was to the north-west of the coast and to prevent a bridgehead being established, the destroyer Beograd, four of the old torpedo boats and 6 MTBs were despatched to Šibenik, 80 km to the south of Zara, in preparation for an attack. The attack was to be co-ordinated with the 12th "Jadranska" Infantry Division and two "Odred" (combined regiments) of the Yugoslav Army attacking from the Benkovac area, supported by air attacks by the 81st Bomber Group of the VVKJ. The Yugoslav forces launched their attack on 9 April but by 13 April the Italian forces had counter-attacked and were in Benkovac by 14 April.[77]
The naval prong to this attack faltered when the destroyer Beograd was damaged by near misses from Italian aircraft off Šibenik when her starboard engine was put out of action, after which she limped to Kotor, escorted by the remainder of the force, for repair....''
Varjag
Faktiskt tog kriget slut för denna jagare för precis 70 år sedan idag, sänkt av arméartilleri, alltså samma dag som Hitler tog sitt liv.
