Air Attack on Taranto
Author: Admiralty. Naval Staff. Training and Staff Duties Division (Historical Section)
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Published: 1943
Total Pages: 31
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Author: Admiralty. Naval Staff. Training and Staff Duties Division (Historical Section)
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Published: 1943
Total Pages: 31
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Great Britain. Naval Staff. Historical Section
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Published: 1943
Total Pages: 53
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Great Britain. Admiralty
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Published: 1943
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Brown
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 0714652059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Andrew Browne Cunningham Cunningham of Hyndhope (Viscount)
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Published: 1947
Total Pages: 7
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Published: 1947
Total Pages: 7
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Andrew Browne Cunningham (Viscount of Hyndhope)
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Published: 1947
Total Pages: 6
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Published: 1957
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas P. Lowry
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2017-09-15
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 0811766780
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn 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: Bernard Ireland
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2003-07-22
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 184415047X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuch has been written about the conduct of the land battles and the commanders who faced each other yet, as the main protagonists realised at the time, success or failure rested on the effectiveness of their seaborne supply chain. Control of the Mediterranean was therefore absolutely crucial. In the final analysis it was the Allies' ability to dominate the Mediterranean that bought them victory but there is no denying that it was a 'damned close run thing'. In this authoritative study, Bernard Ireland brings a fresh clarity to the complexities and factors at play during this critical period.