Kammala wannan jumla: A watan Nuwamba na 1940 ya shiga cikin Operation MB8, wani aiki mai yawa wanda ya shafi dakarun da dama tare 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 Admiral Henry Pridham-Wippell suka koma gabas zuwa Straits of Otranto don karkatar da jirgin ruwa na Italiya yayin da sauran sojojin Birtaniya suka kai hari a tashar jiragen ruwa na Taranto a cikin
Ayyukan Shari'a. Duk da yake a cikin straits, 'yan wasan kwaikwayo sun kama wani jirgin ruwa na Italiya na hudu kuma ya hallaka uku.