Attack on Taranto
On November 11, 1940, 21 slow, canvas-covered British warplanes, launched from the carrier Illustrious, attacked the harbor at the Italian port of Taranto and put most of the Italian navy out of commission. This all-but-forgotten operation, the authors argue, deserves historical recognition as an inspirational precedent for the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor 13 months later. Taranto demonstrated that battleships in a shallow, heavily defended harbor could be sunk by a handful of torpedo-bombers. That lesson Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, commander-in-chief of the Japanese fleet, learned well-while the American military virtually ignored it.By this sin…
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Weitere Autoren: Wellham, John
- ISBN: 978-0-8117-6678-4
- EAN: 9780811766784
- Produktnummer: 24182792
- Verlag: Stackpole Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 174 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 6'429 KB
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By Thomas P. Lowry and John Wellham
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