Attack on Taranto
Paperback or Softback 174 pages Sep 15, 2017
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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 single stroke the balance of naval power in the Mediterranean was decisively altered." -Winston S. Churchill
- Author:
- Thomas P. Lowry
- Publisher:
- Stackpole Books
- Publication Date:
- Sep 15, 2017
- Number of pages:
- 174 pages
- Binding:
- Paperback or Softback
- ISBN-10:
- 0811726614
- ISBN-13:
- 9780811726610