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British air attack on the Italian fleet at Taranto

1940 · importance 2/5 · ai_extracted

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Tragedy and Hope pp. 588-590 · open book
On November 11, 1940, twenty-one British planes made a torpedo attack on the chief units of the Italian fleet in Taranto harbor and sank three out of six battleships at a cost of two planes and one pilot killed.

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Start date (EDTF) 1940 End date (EDTF, empty for a point event)

1914 · 1914-07-28 · -0489 (490 BCE) · 1930~ (circa) · 19XX (century) · 197X (decade)

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