Part 5 of a series reassessing the documentary record behind the 1933 Magenta narrative. TL;DR In September 1943, British commandos removed Admiral Minisini, his wife and technical material from an Italian torpedo installation. The American record follows the McGregor Project through engineers, torpedo countermeasures, Navy transfers and the party’s return to Italy. Steinbeck’s public story and later unit histories preserve different parts of the episode; neither replaces the operational file...