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Taranto
11–12 Nov 1940 — Twenty-one biplanes off HMS Illustrious cripple three Italian battleships in harbor with torpedoes in shallow water. Naval attachés from Tokyo study the charts closely.
This is one scene of Chapter 11 — Barbarossa: The Gamble That Ends the Gambles in The Road to War, 1931–1941.
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