Train wrecking was routine work for RN subs in the Med. Gun action was favourite but landing parties were also used. A good wreck on an Italian costal railway would block the line for a week and deprive German forces in North Africa of about 100,000 tons of supplies.
Not knocking the Barb or the USN but it was nothing new.
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"Pitt was the greatest fool who ever lived to encourage a mode of war which they who commanded the seas did not want, and which, if successful, would deprive them of it." Earl St.Vincent (allegedly)
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