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At this point they have added two Italian battleships (Littorio (later Italia) and Roma). Italia engaged the British a number of times in the Mediterranian Sea. Roma didn't see much action other than being a target for Allied and eventually German bombers. She was sunk by a German radio controled bomb (Fritz X) while defecting to the Allies.
There other completed sister ship Vittorio Veneto was the one that saw a lot of combat.
The fourth of the class, Impero, was not completed. Captured by the Germans after Italy surrendered, it was used as a target ship by both sides and scrapped following the war.
Vittorio Veneto and Italia survived the war. Becoming war prizes, one each went to the Americans and British who had them scrapped in Italy following the war.
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