In November 1940, the British Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm executed a surprise attack on the Italian naval base at Taranto, reshaping naval warfare…
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The Stringbag was called as such because the plane could carry anything, just like the shopping bag. Their slow speed and superior handling made them the only planes that could take off at night, something other planes needed a few more years to work out. Such is the nature of battle honours, no other ship was given the honour of Taranto 1940 as it was deemed a solo effort.
The japanese be like: Write that down! Write that down!
This was a prelude to Pearl Harbor. This incident is not well known. The British planes were not great, but the pilots were. The Italians did the best they could to save their ships. Thank God that the terrible war ended.
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several complains:
1. not to scale.
2. possible error with Doria class crew size – while it seems similar to Cavour class, the complement over 2000 sounds insane.
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Would be courios, to learn more about the Kemlitz incident, where the Russians lost 13 airplanes without any enemy
Strongest Italian battleship VS weakest British Cruiser
A good video on an important episode in naval warfare, without the Yanks, in the Mediterranean theatre. Isntbit also that the European call Lieutenant as leftenant pronunciation & the Yanks lootenant,!. Just saying…
Hopefully you can do one on the Battle of Surabaya
Great work! Just a few discreoancies in the map of Greece (Thrace border with Turkey and Bulgaria & the extent of the Italian invasion & advance)
Nice vid!
Thanks mate!
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Great video but there are a mistake in the end.
He said 3 battleships were damaged but there were 3. Then he said italian had now 2 but there are 3 now.
This video shows that the britain can make this attack so much better but they did it with on aircraft carrier why?
This radar sound effect is annoying and not needed to get the message through. One blip if any should be enough. Nice videos though and script.
Fiu-may
Did the torpedoes have to be modified to handle the shallow harbor like the Japs did for Pearl Harbor?
Bismark, I AM ZE BEST BATTLESHIP IN ZE ATLANTIC!
Stringbag: REALLY?
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One cannot help but feel sympathy for the Regia Marina. It spent two decades arming, training and preparing to fight the Marine Nationale of France, and not to go to war until 1942 at the earliest, instead they suddenly found themselves in war with the Royal Navy in 1940, an enemy who specialized in night fighting, had radar and aircraft carriers. That the Italians did as well as they did is nothing short of commendable.
During Taranto raid planning of Pearl Harbour attack was well under way. So, this raid did not inspired Japs but only showed their chioce as a good one.
How come the anti air fire here is so effective, yet those anti air fire protecting Yamato was so useless…
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Interesting the Italians did not get their ships moving to make harder targets given the advance warning.
Thanks
The adventures of the Second Pacific Squadron ending with the Battle of Tsushima.
Awesome video! A good read on this raid – " The Attack on Taranto", by Thomas P Lowry – 2023
the battleships actually had good torpedo protection. unfourtunatlet since the torps hit the section without protection they sank
great quality, thank you!
Italians lack radar 😂they literally invented the radio 📻🤯🤯🤯
It's incorrect to state that Taranto 'irreversibly tipped the scales'. Britain arguably enjoyed superiority beforehand, but it is also argued that Italy enjoyed a period of supremacy after the Alexandria raid just over a year after this.
It blows my mind that the Italians didn't have their entire Navy just bum rush Gibraltar as their very first act the very day they declared war while the Brits were getting pummeled in France and not at all prepared for a Mediterranean conflict, throw the entire Navy and any Amphibious forces they had at Gibraltar, take it at all cost and fortify it with everything they had and at the same time throw their entire airforce and any airborne troops they had at Malta while it was relatively undefended and the Brits were very distracted…. they basically could have had full control of the Mediterranean on day one…. once France fell basically insist the Germans force the French to give up their fleet and split it with the Germans, give then the trade off that you'll help them in the Atlantic, bring Franco in by promising him Gibralter (though insist your Navy stays to help protect it until the end of the war) maybe even promis him all of Morocco after the war… or don't but threaten Vichy with giving it to him, plus letting them keep their fleet if they join the Axis (maybe even promis them french soeaking areas of Belgium post war)… which ever is more likely to get both on board and/or whichever either is most likely to accept… in any case, Mediterranean becomes an Axis lake, Greece and Yugoslavia have no Chance of going over to Allies meaning no Balkan Campaign, meaning operation Barbarosa starts earlier which woukd likely mean reaching Moscow before winter and a possible knockout blow against the Soviets, also Egypt is cut off and likely falls fairly easily, Brits cut off from Pacific, Iraq stays in the Axis camp giving them more oil (also Romanian airfield would have never been bombed by Brits, also more oil) etc, etc, etc, etc, etc……
It could have totally changed the course of the war,,, it should have been their number one objective by far!!! Why not?
Michael Torrens Spence isn't American ffs!
Torrens-Spencer was a US Naval officer?
were any of these listed speeds ever tested by anyone apart from the Italians ?
the problem with listing these speeds is the Italians speed tested their ships before they were complete Often before the gun turrets had been put into the hulls
so count 300- 400 tons per turret and the fact that no ammo was on the ships makes a massive difference to the true ship speed
After watching this video, I wouldn't call Taranto a well defended fortress. Not a single fighter were launched to intercept the bombers? All those "magnificent" AA guns were managed to shot down only 2 planes? Wow, what a fortress
Despite the Swordfish's appearance they were excellent torpedo bombers, could carry a decent sized torpedo and could take a great deal of punishment.