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| Author | : Mark Stille |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 396 |
| Release | : 2021-11-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1472848039 |
A comprehensive overview of the strategy, operations and vessels of the United States Navy from 1941 to 1945. Although slowly building its navy while neutral during the early years of World War II, the US was struck a serious blow when its battleships, the lynchpin of US naval doctrine, were the target of the dramatic attack at Pearl Harbor. In the Pacific Theatre, the US was thereafter locked into a head to head struggle with the impressive Imperial Japanese Navy, fighting a series of major battles in the Coral Sea, at Midway, the Philippine Sea, Leyte Gulf and Okinawa in the struggle for supremacy over Japan. Having avoided the decisive defeat sought by the IJN, the US increased industrial production and by the end of the war, the US Navy was larger than any other in the world. Meanwhile in the west, the US Navy operated on a second front, supporting landings in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy, and in 1944 played a significant part in the D-Day landings, the largest and most complex amphibious operation of all time. Written by an acknowledged expert and incorporating extensive illustrations including photographs, maps and colour artwork, this book offers a detailed look at the strategy, operations and vessels of the US Navy in World War II.
| Author | : M. Hill Goodspeed |
| Publisher | : Hugh Lauter Levin Associates |
| Total Pages | : 732 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Building on the official Navy chronologies, this book presents a year-by-year summary of significant naval activities from 1775 to the present. Key historical entries, along with significant operations, technological advances, and narratives of the women and men instrumental in shaping the organisation, are written by leading experts in each subject. With a distinctive battleship cover and 1000 photographs, this authoritative and encyclopaedic account of the U S Navy is an important addition to any military history collection.
| Author | : Michael J. Crawford |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 68 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Jason W. Smith |
| Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
| Total Pages | : 281 |
| Release | : 2018-04-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1469640457 |
As the United States grew into an empire in the late nineteenth century, notions like "sea power" derived not only from fleets, bases, and decisive battles but also from a scientific effort to understand and master the ocean environment. Beginning in the early nineteenth century and concluding in the first years of the twentieth, Jason W. Smith tells the story of the rise of the U.S. Navy and the emergence of American ocean empire through its struggle to control nature. In vividly told sketches of exploration, naval officers, war, and, most significantly, the ocean environment, Smith draws together insights from environmental, maritime, military, and naval history, and the history of science and cartography, placing the U.S. Navy's scientific efforts within a broader cultural context. By recasting and deepening our understanding of the U.S. Navy and the United States at sea, Smith brings to the fore the overlooked work of naval hydrographers, surveyors, and cartographers. In the nautical chart's soundings, names, symbols, and embedded narratives, Smith recounts the largely untold story of a young nation looking to extend its power over the boundless sea.
| Author | : Gordon Swanborough |
| Publisher | : US Naval Institute Press |
| Total Pages | : 632 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
'United States Navy Aircraft since 1911' has been completely revised and updated and, like the earlier editions, will become the standard reference work covering all the aircraft of the US Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard.
| Author | : Craig L. Symonds |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 149 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199394946 |
This brisk narrative charts the history of the United States Navy from its birth during the American Revolution through its emergence as a global power amid the world wars of the twentieth century and finally to its current role as a superpower in the twenty-first century.
| Author | : Van Orden, M. D. |
| Publisher | : Dodd Mead |
| Total Pages | : 102 |
| Release | : 1985 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780396085430 |
Text and photographs introduce the characteristics and purposes of the various types of ships in the present-day Navy.
| Author | : Michael Green |
| Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
| Total Pages | : 281 |
| Release | : 2015-04-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 147385444X |
This pictorial history of US aircraft carriers illustrates the many classes and types of carriers used by the navy from before WWII to the present day. In 1922 the US Navy commissioned its first small experimental aircraft carrier. This was followed into service by two much larger carriers in 1927 with five more being built— including three large Yorktown class—prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Then, to take the offensive against the Japanese Navy, the American Congress funded by far the largest carrier-building program in history. Since 1975, when the first of a fleet of ten nuclear-powered Nimitz class carriers was commissioned, The United States Navy’s fleet of carriers has optimized its superpower status and worldwide power projection. Yet these are due to be replaced in the decades to come with the even more sophisticated nuclear-powered Gerald R. Ford class. Compiled and written by Michael Green, Aircraft Carriers of the United States Navy contains superb images of all the different types of classes of carriers employed by the US Navy since 1922. These and its highly informative text and captions give the reader a broad overview of this fascinating subject.
| Author | : Paul Metsa |
| Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2011-09-19 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1452933219 |
This is a musician’s tale: the story of a boy growing up on the Iron Range, playing his guitar at family gatherings, coming of age in the psychedelic seventies, and honing his craft as a pro in Minneapolis, ground zero of American popular music in the mid-eighties. “There is a drop of blood behind every note I play and every word I write,” Paul Metsa says. And it’s easy to believe, as he conducts us on a musical journey across time and country, navigating switchbacks, detours, dead ends, and providing us the occasional glimpse of the promised land on the blue guitar highway. His account captures the thrill of the Twin Cities when acts like the Replacements, Husker Dü, and Prince were remaking pop music. It takes us right onto the stages he shared with stars like Billy Bragg, Pete Seeger, and Bruce Springsteen. And it gives us a close-up, dizzying view of the roller-coaster ride that is the professional musician’s life, played out against the polarizing politics and intimate history of the past few decades of American culture. Written with a songwriter’s sense of detail and ear for poetry, Paul Metsa’s book conveys all the sweet absurdity, dry humor, and passion for the language of music that has made his story sing.
| Author | : Trent Hone |
| Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
| Total Pages | : 350 |
| Release | : 2018-06-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1682472949 |
Learning War examines the U.S. Navy’s doctrinal development from 1898–1945 and explains why the Navy in that era was so successful as an organization at fostering innovation. A revolutionary study of one of history’s greatest success stories, this book draws profoundly important conclusions that give new insight, not only into how the Navy succeeded in becoming the best naval force in the world, but also into how modern organizations can exploit today’s rapid technological and social changes in their pursuit of success. Trent Hone argues that the Navy created a sophisticated learning system in the early years of the twentieth century that led to repeated innovations in the development of surface warfare tactics and doctrine. The conditions that allowed these innovations to emerge are analyzed through a consideration of the Navy as a complex adaptive system. Learning War is the first major work to apply this complex learning approach to military history. This approach permits a richer understanding of the mechanisms that enable human organizations to evolve, innovate, and learn, and it offers new insights into the history of the United States Navy.
