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The Attack on Taranto: Blueprint for Pearl Harbor (Paperback)

by Thomas P. Lowry (Author), John W. G. Wellham (Author) "SINCE MAN FIRST WENT TO SEA, HE HAS SOUGHT SAFE HARBORS..." (more)
Key Phrases: torpedo planes, torpedo attack, Pearl Harbor, United States, Italian Navy (more...)
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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. The book includes an instructive comparison of the ways Japanese and Americans reacted to Taranto and a fine summary of the origin and development of carrier doctrine. The account of the 1940 raid itself is detailed and suspenseful. Lowry is the author of The Story Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War; Wellham, who flew in the Taranto raid, is the author of With Naval Wings: The Autobiography of a Fleet Air Pilot in World War II. Illustrations.
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Product Details
  • Paperback: 144 pages
  • Publisher: Stackpole Books (September 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0811726614
  • ISBN-13: 978-0811726610
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,025,728 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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SINCE MAN FIRST WENT TO SEA, HE HAS SOUGHT SAFE HARBORS. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
torpedo planes, torpedo attack
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Pearl Harbor, United States, Italian Navy, Regia Aeronautica, Fleet Air Arm, Royal Navy, Ark Royal, Pacific Fleet, World War, Mar Piccolo, Naval General Staff, Mar Grande, Rear Adm, Suda Bay, Admiral Cunningham, Italian Air Force, San Pietro Island, Suez Canal, Dutch East Indies, Isoroku Yamamoto, Long Lance, Mitsuo Fuchida, Two Worried Admirals, Wheeler Field, Battle of Britain
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