Andrew Cunningham

Commanded in the Mediterranean, crippled the Italian battle fleet at Taranto in 1940 with carrier aircraft — the raid the Japanese studied before Pearl Harbor — and insisted on evacuating Crete under air attack on the grounds that it takes three years to build a ship and three centuries to build a tradition.

• Lived: 1883 CE – 1963 CE
• Nationality: english
• Roles: admiral, naval_commander