I was looking at doing a Punta Stilo/Calabria “what if” scenario, where the Italian fleet is augmented by the battleships Littorio and Vittorio Veneto.
I know they were still working up, and there is a sentence on page 69 of The Naval War in the Mediterranean 1940-1943 by Jack Greene & Alessandro Massignani that says “But there had been an electrical fire in one of Littorio’s main turrets the previous day, killing one civilian worker and causing damage which would need a month’s work to repair.”
My question is, which turret? Anyone have a source that identifies it?
Unfortunately the endnote in The Naval War in the Mediterranean 1940-1943 seems to focus on a subsequent sentence on how it was likely the ships could have been able to reach the fleet in time.