" A Taranto–Pearl Harbor Connection?" Topic
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| Tango01 | 05 Mar 2017 9:20 p.m. PST |
"On the night of 11 November 1940, Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm aircraft attacked Italian battleships at anchor in the port of Taranto, Italy. On the morning of 7 December 1941, aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy's carrier strike force attacked the battleships and other assets of the U.S. Navy at anchor in Pearl Harbor. Is there a connection between the two attacks?
It is not obvious that there should be any connection, for the two attacks were very different. Twenty fabric-covered biplanes struck the Italian anchorage in the dark of night, while 355 aircraft attacked many targets on Oahu in daylight. The Taranto task force consisted of one carrier escorted by eight ships. The Japanese employed 6 carriers, escorted by 14 ships and 3 submarines. The Japanese destroyed 174 planes, damaged another 128, and inflicted severe damage to airfields and hangars. The four British planes assigned to bomb targets ashore did little damage, and the bombs dropped on ships by five other planes failed to explode. Three Italian battleships were torpedoed, two of which were repaired and returned to service within six months. Eight U.S. battleships, three cruisers, three destroyers, and four auxiliary craft were either sunk, capsized, or heavily damaged.
Still, the fundamental lesson of each operation was the same: The development of naval aviation meant ships no longer were safe in their home ports…"
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| Wackmole9 | 06 Mar 2017 7:01 a.m. PST |
A us Naval officer was with the British task force and wrote a long report on the attack. It was sadly ignored and filed away. |
Beowulf  | 06 Mar 2017 11:29 a.m. PST |
The Japanese studied the Taranto attack and modeled theirs accordingly. This is nothing new. |
ScottWashburn  | 09 Mar 2017 8:26 a.m. PST |
Heck, they even talked about it in the movie "Tora! Tora! Tora!" :) |
| Tango01 | 10 Mar 2017 12:33 p.m. PST |
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| Warspite1 | 19 Mar 2017 1:03 p.m. PST |
The Japanese took a great deal of interest in Taranto to the extent of asking for depth soundings of Taranto harbour. What is often not realised is that Taranto was the start of a strategy that was developed from 1917 onwards, to hit the German High Seas Fleet in its German bases using Sopwith Cuckoos. Had the Great War gone on to 1919 it would have happened: link The above link gives a brief outline. |
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