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.

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• Autori: Thomas Lowry, Thomas P Lowry, Thomas P. Lowry, Thomas Wellham Lowry, John Wellham
• Editore: Stackpole Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.11.2017
• EAN: 9780811726610
• ISBN: 978-0-8117-2661-0
• Pagine: 174
• Serie: Stackpole Classics; Stackpole Classics
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Politica e sua amministrazione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; 1940 bis 1949 n. Chr., Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Krieg und militärische Operationen, Moderne Kriegsführung