Pertempuran Taranto
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Pertempuran Taranto terjadi pada malam 11–12 November 1940 saat Perang Dunia Kedua antara pasukan angkatan laut Inggris, dibawah pimpinan Laksamana Andrew Cunningham, dan pasukan angkatan laut Italia, dibawah pimpinan Laksamana Inigo Campioni. Angkatan Laut Kerajaan Inggris melincurkan serangan angkatan laut all-aircraft ship-to-ship pertama dalam sejarah
Asal muasal
Lama sebelum Perang Dunia Pertama, Skuadron Pertama Regia Marina Italia berpangkal di Taranto, sebuah kota pelabuhan di pesisir tenggara Italia.
Catatan
- ^ History of World War II. 1. Marshall Cavendish Corporation. 2004. hlm. 206. ISBN 0-7614-7483-8.
Referensi
- Bragadin, A, Italian Navy in World War II, 1st Ed, US Naval Institute, Annapolis, 1957. ISBN 087021327X
- Caravaggio, A.N, Lieutenant Colonel, 'THE ATTACK AT TARANTO: Tactical Success, Operational Failure', Naval War College Review, 1997.
- Playfair, Major-General I.S.O.; with Stitt, Commander G.M.S; Molony, Brigadier C.J.C. & Toomer, Air Vice-Marshall S.E. (2004) [1st. pub. HMSO:1954]. Butler, J.R.M, ed. Mediterranean and Middle East Volume I: The Early Successes Against Italy (to May 1941). History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Military Series. Uckfield, UK: Naval & Military Press. ISBN 1-84574-065-3.
Bacaan tambahan
- Lamb, Charles To War in a Stringbag. Cassell and Collier Macmillan (1977) ISBN 0-304-29778-X
- Lowry, Thomas P & Wellham, John W.G. The Attack on Taranto: Blueprint for Pearl Harbor. Stackpole Books (1995) ISBN 0-8117-1726-7
- O'Connor, Christopher Patrick Taranto: The Raid, The Observer, The Aftermath. Dog Ear Publishing (2010) ISBN 978-160844-721-3
- Konstam, Angus Taranto 1940; The Fleet Air Arm's precursor to Pearl Harbor. Osprey Campaign Series #288. Osprey Publishing (2015) ISBN 978-1-4728-0896-7
Pranala luar
Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai Battle of Taranto.
- Battle of Taranto from Royal Navy's website
- La notte di Taranto – Plancia di Commando
- Order of battle
- IWM Interview with John Wellham, who piloted a Swordfish during the battle