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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 | : Bernard Ireland |
Publisher | : Harpercollins |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Warships. |
ISBN | : 9780004708720 |
Author | : David Hubert Grover |
Publisher | : US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard Worth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 778 |
Release | : 2021-01-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781608882250 |
Caught up in global chaos, the navies of World War II had to fight campaigns that rarely matched prewar planning. Each country found itself adapting its fleet compositions, ship designs, personnel training, and weaponry to ever-changing circumstances and ever-fluctuating resources-with varying degrees of success.An understanding of the successes and failures requires an uncompromising critique of the tools of war. Fleets of World War II pins down the warships' actual qualities, a nation-by-nation survey covering everything from the mightiest battlewagons to modest patrol craft.After fifteen years as a staple of naval research, Fleets of World War II now appears in this updated edition with expanded text and more than 150 photographs.Praise for the first edition: "With a substantial library of good books on the fighting ships of the last century and a half, I am glad to add Richard Worth's Fleets of World War II to my collection." -Frank Uhlig, Jr., U. S. Naval War College"This one book contains a perfect distillation of facts, theory and application on almost any ship that saw use in World War II." -Wargamer.com"Fleets of World War II probably represents the best single-volume comprehensive treatment of World War II warships available today." -William J. Jurens, Warship Internationa
Author | : Paul H. Silverstone |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 041597898X |
First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Ron MacKay, Jr. |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2016-05-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1476623287 |
The "Interim" LSM(R) or Landing Ship, Medium (Rocket) was a revolutionary development in rocket warfare in World War II and the U.S. Navy's first true rocket ship. An entirely new class of commissioned warship and the forerunners of today's missile-firing naval combatants, these ships began as improvised conversions of conventional amphibious landing craft in South Carolina's Charleston Navy Yard during late 1944. They were rushed to the Pacific Theatre to support the U.S. Army and Marines with heavy rocket bombardments that devastated Japanese forces on Okinawa in 1945. Their primary mission was to deliver maximum firepower to enemy targets ashore. Yet LSM(R)s also repulsed explosive Japanese speed boats, rescued crippled warships, recovered hundreds of survivors at sea and were deployed as antisubmarine hunter-killers. Casualties were staggering: enemy gunfire blasted one, while kamikaze attacks sank three, crippled a fourth and grazed two more. This book provides a comprehensive operational history of the Navy's 12 original "Interim" LSM(R)s.
Author | : Bernard Ireland |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1998-10-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0004721438 |
The author, a naval historian, reveals the critical elements that determined the war at sea.
Author | : Walter G. Winslow |
Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2014-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1612512933 |
The dramatic tale of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet in World War II received little attention prior to the publication of this book in 1982, when Winslow chronicled their short and tragic story of heroism and defeat.Greatly outnumbered by vastly superior forces, and saddled with defective equipment; a lack of supplies, reinforcements, and air cover; and, towards the end, an incompetent and bungled Allied combined command, the Asiatic fleet met the Japanese head-on. Within a matter of three months, however, the beleaguered ships were totally wiped out. Captain Walter Winslow, a naval aviator on board the USS Houston, flagship of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, was in a unique position to tell the riveting story. As an active participant in all the major battles the fleet engaged in, he had an intimate understanding of the calamities that befell it. In addition, he drew upon the his own extensive notes he kept from a POW camp while interviewing other American, British, Dutch, and Australian prisoners from the Allied fleet. Winslow also painstakingly tracked down war documents and battle reports from all the ships assigned to the fleet to paint a complete picture filled with graphic details of the fleet’s only victory at Balikpapan; the disastrous Battle of the Java Sea that broke the back of the combined Asiatic fleet; the ghastly spectacle at Sunda Strait where the Houston struggled to survive; the suspenseful episode in the submarine Perch trapped in the mud at the bottom of the sea; and the daring escape from Corregidor of eighteen crewmembers from the USS Quail who refused to surrender to the Japanese forces.
Author | : John Batchelor |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0486451631 |
This fleet of 28 accurately detailed ships includes the ill-fated PT-109, commanded by a young John F. Kennedy, a German U-boat, and the USS Missouri, the battleship on which the Japanese surrendered.
Author | : Theodore Roscoe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 720 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : |