Word: taranto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides constant raids on Italian bases in Albania and on cities on the Italian mainland, the Eastern Fleet's naval planes in November pulled off the most dramatic single episode of the whole battle: Taranto. Catching a strong body of the Italian Fleet asleep at anchor, the British severely damaged three capital ships and two cruisers-giving Britain conclusive naval superiority in the entire Mediterranean, and thereby paving the way for another vital duty in the East...
...abandoned airdrome near Tobruch, 70 miles farther to the west. Free French troops were reported in control of sections of the Bardia-Tobruch road. Day & night the R. A. F. had slugged bases in both Italy and Libya, striking at Gazala, Derna, Tobruch, Tripoli, the ports of Taranto, Palermo and Naples...
...sound & fury, a U. S. Navy carrier is an outstanding example of the smooth coordination of man and complicated machine. It is also a powerful weapon for long-range reconnaissance, for delivery of swift and crushing raids from the air, like the British attack on the Italian Navy at Taranto. Big trouble is that the U. S. Navy has not nearly enough carriers (Britain has seven, Japan eleven). Last week the Navy launched its seventh. Down a greasy way of the Newport News (Va.) Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. slid the 20,000-ton Hornet, to be tied...
...supply ships bound for Malta through what Italy still calls Mare Nostrum ("Our Sea") but which cartoonists now label Nightmare Nostrum. It was known that what was left of the Italian Navy after Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham's brilliant aerial-torpedo stab into its main base at Taranto (TIME, Nov. 25) had scuttled for a more remote hideaway, probably Cagliari on Sardinia's south coast or Naples on the mainland. Perhaps the British keepers of the western gate of Italy's prison, under Vice Admiral Sir James Somerville, would get a glimpse of and a crack...
...home consumption the Italian accounts made heady reading-most necessary so soon after Taranto. But certain prime facts remained: 1) the Italian Fleet had run from the British, as always; 2) it had failed to intercept another shipment of British war materiel and man power to the Middle East; 3) operating from Naples or Cagliari, it cannot defend Italy's oversea supply line to Africa as well as it could from Taranto before the British got into Crete...