 Ngarava mbiri dzokutanga dzakatanga kushanda muna August 1940, nguva pfupi Italy yapinda muHondo Yenyika II. Littorio yakakuvadzwa zvikuru mukupamba kwaNovember 1940 paTaranto, uye kugadziriswa kwakatora kusvikira March 1941. Vittorio Veneto akanga asina kukuvadzwa, uye gare gare mwedzi iwoyo akatora rutivi muHondo yeCape Spartivento. Muna March 1941, akakuvadzwa neBritish torpedo vabhomba pashure peHondo isingapindirani yeCape Matapan. Ngarava dzose dziri mbiri dzakanga dzadzokera mubasa nokuda kweHondo Yokutanga neYechipiri yeSirtemuna January naMarch 1942, zvichiteerana. Pakupera kwegore racho, Roma yakanga yagadzirira kushanda uye yakatsiva Littorio senhumbi huru yezvikepe. Pashure pokunge Benito Mussolini abviswa musimba muna July 1943, Littorio yakatumidzwa kuti Italia. Mukati mekuregera kweItaly munaSeptember 1943, Roma yakarohwa nemabhomba maviri eFritz-X anotungamirirwa; mabhuku ake emapurisa akaputika mukuputika kukuru uye akakurumidza kunyura. Italia yakarohwa neFritz-X imwe uye yakakuvadzwa zvikuru. United States neBritain dzakagamuchira Italia uye Vittorio Veneto, zvichiteerana, muchibvumirano cherunyararo; ngarava mbiri idzi dzakaparadzwa mukupera kwema1940, sezvakanga zvakaita Impero isina kukwana. 