21. See D’Adamo, “Operation Judgment: Taranto’s Night.” Eberhard Weichold, “Axis Naval Policy and Operations in the Mediterranean, 1939 to May 1943,” in Essays by German Officers and Officials on ...

Signals were picked up by a Royal Navy corvette and an Italian patrol vessel, and the Jadran Express was forced to dock at Taranto. The international plot thickened a few years later quite by chance.