Nirosi
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January 31st, 1941 In the Atlantic, four U-Boat flotillas together managed to sink only about 100 000 toons of merchant shipping but lost among them the equivalent of a whole flotilla. OKM is at a loss to explain the overall mediocre results, with huge variations, since the start of the war. Allied level of escort and sub hunting patrols seem to explain only part of the variations. Some important technical improvements are expected to be deployed on U-boats by spring, improving, among other things, their diving speed and noise levels. In the Mediterranean, a lone submarine flotilla was spotted Southwest of Crete and its mission is puzzling the Regia Marina as it was in no position to interfere with any Axis operation except maybe an invasion of Crete. Nonetheless, aircrafts from Libya were sent to attack the submarines and inflicted moderate loses on the flotilla. Near the Libyan-Egyptian border, things are heating up with a show of force on both sides. The Axis fields three mobile corps: the VXI Panzer Corps, the XXI Motorised Corps Piave and the XX Armor Corps Ariete, the last two both renamed around their central division. Complementing those forces, Rome sent in also the II Infantry Corps. Berlin promised an infantry corps as well if need be. However, no one dare to start the hostilities preferring to let the other side commit first… In other news, Comando Supremo is estimating that unless relieved, the Malta garrison should start starving soon.
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