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Ta anti One of the four major naval bases in Italy, Taranto, in the instep of the Italian Boot, forms the southern anchorage for Italy ' s fleet. Taranto is an ancient city built by the Greeks: Prosperity and hixnrv grew from a thriving trade until, in wars with the Romans, it lost its independence. From 209 B.C., onward, there was a rapid succession of rulers— Romans, Byzan- tines and the Saracens, who finally destroyed it completely in 927 A.D. It later became a part of the Norman Kingdom in Southern Italy, until in 1861 it was incorporated into the Italian Kingdom. A torpedo base was established there in the years that followed providing the beginning of what has grown mto a first class naval base. Once Taranto ' s harbor was filled with the Italian fleet, proud sliips that formed a formidable Navy. But that was before World War II, before the British bombers from the carrier ILLUSTRIOUS flew over the Italian fleet, apparently quite safe in the harbor, and turned Taranto ' s harbor into a flaming mass of sinking ships. This disaster inflicted on the Italian Navy by the British planes broke the back of Italian sea power in only a few hours.
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