Attack on Taranto

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung The November 1940 British attack against the Italian fleet provided a perfect example of surprise and swift devastation -- a lesson not lost on the Japanese.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Lowry, Thomas P Lowry, Thomas P. Lowry, Thomas Wellham Lowry, John Wellham
• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2017
• EAN: 9780811726610
• ISBN: 978-0-8117-2661-0
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: Stackpole Classics; Stackpole Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; 1940 bis 1949 n. Chr., Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Krieg und militärische Operationen, Moderne Kriegsführung