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engine did not provide the required power. In
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to cancel a German order of submarine torpedoes and to instead produce 80 torpedoes to mount on these airplanes, making SM 79 torpedo bombers operational in August 1940.
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be sent to Italy as commander of the German forces in the
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against the fickleness of the Italian general Pricolo". In the month of November, when the situation on the Libyan front deteriorated due to the
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