Attack on Taranto

by Lowry, Thomas P.; Wellham, John

• ISBN13: 9780811726610
• ISBN10: 0811726614
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2017-09-15
• Publisher: Stackpole Books

Summary

A close study of the little-known attack in November 1940, by British carrier-based planes on the Italian fleet at Taranto. A successful raid, in which the Italian fleet was put out of World War II, the raid was studied by Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto and served as a textbook case for surprise and swift devastation.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
The Curtain Rises	1	(8)
Two Worried Admirals	9	(12)
The Formidable Stringbag	21	(8)
Platforms and Weapons	29	(12)
The Italian Navy and Air Force	41	(10)
Malta and the Dog Mange Cure	51	(6)
The Plan	57	(4)
Murphy's Law and the Final Plan	61	(6)
Judgments Night	67	(6)
Volleyed and Thundered	73	(10)
The Morning After	83	(4)
ABC Equals Z	87	(8)
Applying the Hard Lesson	95	(6)
The Summing Up	101	(28)
Appendixes
A. British Naval Aviation	111	(4)
B. The Raid on Bomba	115	(2)
C. Flight Crews at Taranto	117	(2)
D. Italian Naval Ships at Taranto	119	(2)
E. Maximum Speeds of Planes in Use in 1940-41	121	(2)
F. Midway	123	(2)
G. Comparative Ranks	125	(2)
H. British Abbreviations	127	(2)
Notes	129	(6)
Bibliography	135	(4)
Index	139