OK, so the British success certainly was encouraging to the Japanese. But, there was no internet then to look up the depth of water in Taranto...
No, Yamamoto first mused about hitting Pearl Harbor in May of 1940, six months before the Taranto attack. He felt that smashing the US Navy on day...
Post war surveys (US Strategic Bombing Survey) found some successes - against oil, ammunition, and truck production in Germany - and many failures,...
Key factors in the RN success were recon photos of the anchorage, deceptive ship movements in the week prior to the attack, radar(RDF to the Brits)...
Sorry, fellas, but Midway is by far the most important naval battle of the war. The Japanese has overwhelming superiority, but frittered it away by...
Not very. Barrage balloons are static; they float there in the hope that attacking planes will hit the cables. At Taranto, the cables were 300 yards...
Prange, in At Dawn We Slept, mentions Taranto but not Opie. The book that did mention Opie was The Attack on Taranto, by B. B. Schofield, Naval...
It was mentioned briefly in Schofield's book on the Taranto attack. I tried to learn more, and ended up at the National Archives, reading Opie's...
The British attack on the Italian Fleet at anchor in Taranto harbor in November, 1940 is well known to WWII students. Not so well known is the fact...
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