The Attack on Taranto Blueprint for Pearl Harbor
| Author/creator | Lowry, Thomas P. Author |
| Other author | Wellham, John Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Mechanicsburg : Stackpole Books Blue Ridge Summit : National Book Network [Distributor] |
| Description | 174 p. ill 09.060 x 05.940 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Series | Stackpole Classics Ser. |
| Summary | Annotation 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 |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780811726610 |
| ISBN | 0811726614 (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780811726610 |
| Stock number | 00025013 |
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