Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A watan Nuwamba 1940 ya shiga cikin Operation MB8, wani aiki mai yawa wanda ya shafi dakarun da dama da ke da manufofi daban-daban amma sun daidaita. A wannan lokacin Force B ya ƙunshi masu jirgi da kuma ya ba da ƙarfafawa zuwa Crete. Rundunar ta tashi a ranar 4 ga watan Nuwamba tare da rundunar AN 6 a kan hanyar zuwa Girka, ta bar wannan maraice zuwa Crete, sa'an nan kuma ta je arewa don shiga Force C (cruiser) a Pireaus. Daga nan ne sojojin da ke karkashin jagorancin Vice Admiral Henry Pridham-Wippell suka koma gabas zuwa ga Straits of Otranto don karkatar da jiragen ruwa na Italiya yayin da sauran sojojin Birtaniya suka kai hari a tashar jiragen ruwa na Taranto a cikin Operation Judgement.
Ka yi haƙuri. Duk da yake a cikin straits, 'yan wasan kwaikwayo sun kama wani jirgin ruwa na Italiya na hudu kuma ya hallaka uku.