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Attack on Taranto

Autor Thomas P Lowry, John Wellham
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 sep 2017
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780811726610
ISBN-10: 0811726614
Pagini: 174
Ilustrații: b&w photos
Dimensiuni: 153 x 230 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:Revised edition
Editura: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc

Descriere

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.