Italian gun power stronger than British gun power in the Mediterranean according to the U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 24 February 1942

An item reported that the Italian navy at the moment had in the Eastern Mediterranean a gun power which was numerically superior to that of the British Royal Nayv.

Source

Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. MR0423. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 76 dated 24 February 1942