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Author : William H. Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89069275493
Author : Richard Phillip Lawless
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781636242064
Never-before-told story of the 868th Bomb Squadron, the Nightstalkers, who paired cutting-edge technology with daring—launching single-aircraft night-time missions stalking the Japanese in the Pacific. In August 1943, a highly classified US Army Air Force unit, code-named the “Wright Project,” departed Langley Field for Guadalcanal in the South Pacific to join the fight against the Empire of Japan. Operating independently, under sealed orders drafted at the highest levels of Army Air Force, the Wright Project was unique, both in terms of the war-fighting capabilities provided by classified systems the ten B-24 Liberators of this small group of airmen brought to the war, and in the success these “crash-built” technologies allowed. The Wright airmen would fly only at night, usually as lone hunters of enemy ships. In so doing they would pave the way for the United States to enter and dominate a new dimension of war in the air for generations to come. This is their story, from humble beginnings at MIT’s Radiation Lab and hunting U-boats off America’s eastern shore, through to the campaigns of the war in the Pacific in their two-year march toward Tokyo. The Wright Project would prove itself to be a combat leader many times over and an outstanding technology innovator, evolving to become the 868th Bomb Squadron. Along the way the unit would be embraced by unique personalities and the dynamic leadership, from Army Air Force General Hap Arnold through combat commanders who flew the missions. In this account, the reader will meet radar warfare pioneers and squadron leaders who were never satisfied that they had pushed the men, the aircraft, and the technologies to the full limit of their possibilities. Comprehensive and highly personal, this story can now be revealed for the very first time, based on official sources, and interviews with the young men who flew into the night.
Author : Evan Mawdsley
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300255454
The gripping account of the U.S. Navy's fast carrier force--and how its Central Pacific campaign in 1944 marked the achievement of American naval supremacy Task Force 58 was World War II's most powerful battle fleet. Made up in mid-1944 of sixteen aircraft carriers, over a thousand combat aircraft, and an armada of escorts, it was vital to victory over Japan. In this compelling account, Evan Mawdsley charts the 3,500-mile dash of the "Big Blue Fleet" across the Central Pacific in the first six months of 1944, overwhelming enemy opposition and transforming the nature of naval warfare. The Battle of the Philippine Sea in June 1944 crushed the enemy's naval air force and secured war-winning air bases in the Mariana Islands. Mawdsley examines the elements of the rapidly assembled force--ships, planes, and 100,000 officers and men--as well as the advanced bases and fleet train that provided such astounding mobility. Task Force 58's campaign marked the achievement of naval supremacy by the United States, a status it maintains to this day.
Author : Klaus Lindemann
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781597523479
'Hailstorm Over Truk Lagoon' remains the authoritative reference book about the US Navy carrier raid of 17/18 February 1944 on the Japanese naval and supply base Truk, in the East Caroline Islands. This edition presented here adds later information and pictures to the book, and corrects errors. . . . The new discoveries and other changes, as well as new information made it necessary to issue a revised edition of 'Hailstorm over Truk Lagoon.' The text of this edition has been generally updated to 1990. New finds, observations or conditions seen at the popular wrecks during my diving visit in spring 1991 have been incorporated. All this is part of the ongoing research about Truk.Ó From the Foreword
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Scuba diving
ISBN : UCSD:31822009150095
Author : John Prados
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015034386980
The most authoritative and revealing examination yet of the way intelligence--of all kinds--was instrumental in defeating Japan. Prados gives a new picture of the war in the Pacific, one which will challenge many previous conceptions about that conflict, and one which will be irresistible to those readers who find histories of that period fascinating. 16 pages of photos.
Author : Myron J. Smith
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:35007000376214
Author : Rod Macdonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Deep diving
ISBN : 1849951314
Truk Lagoon is quite simply the greatest wreck diving location in the world. Scores of virtually intact large WWII wrecks filled with cargoes of tanks, trucks, artillery, beach mines, shells and aircraft rest in the crystal clear waters of the Lagoon--each a man-made reef teeming with life. Truk was the main forward anchorage for the Japanese Imperial Navy and merchant fleet during the early days of WWII. The lagoon had been fortified by the Japanese in great secrecy during the 1930s--the Allies knew little about it. In total secrecy Operation Hailstone was prepared: nine U.S. carriers holding more than 500 combat aircraft steamed towards Truk--supported by a screen of battleships, cruisers, destroyers and submarines. Before dawn on 17 February, Strike Groups of 12 Hellcat fighters swept in low towards Truk under Japanese radar and immediately began strafing Japanese airfields. Soon, hundreds of aircraft were involved in one of the largest aerial dogfights of WWII which was over within an hour. This is the amazing story of Truk Lagoon and the turning of the tide in the Pacific War.
Author : Rodrigue Lévesque
Publisher : Gatineau, Quebec : Éditions Lévesque = Lévesque Publications
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Micronesia
ISBN : 0920201202
Author : Rodrigue Lévesque
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117946652
This final volume in the series contains: an annotated bibliography of printed works about Micronesia arranged in chronological order; a list of ships that visited the islands from Magellan's time to the modern era; and a cumulative index of volumes 1-19.
Author : James P. Delgado
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015038163872
Deserted homes and crumbling concrete bunkers that remain on the atoll itself, the ghost fleet of Operation Crossroads is an archaeological legacy from the beginning of the atomic age.
Author : James P. Delgado
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Atomic bomb
ISBN : PURD:32754061753798
Author : John Christopher Fine
Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0689312806
Describes the search for shipwrecks and sunken treasure, from the Anegada Passage in the Caribbean to the area near Cape Horn at the tip of South America.
Author : Klaus P. Lindemann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Shipwrecks
ISBN : UCSD:31822002321545
Author : Suzanne Falgout,Lin Poyer,Laurence Marshall Carucci
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824863586
Micronesians often liken the Pacific War to a typhoon, one that swept away their former lives and brought dramatic changes to their understandings of the world and their places in it. Whether they spent the war in bomb shelters, in sweet potato fields under the guns of Japanese soldiers, or in their homes on atolls sheltered from the war, Micronesians who survived those years know that their peoples passed through a major historical transformation. Yet Pacific War histories scarcely mention the Islanders across whose lands and seas the fighting waged. Memories of War sets out to the fill that historical gap by presenting the missing voices of Micronesians and by viewing those years from their perspectives. The focus is on Micronesian remembrances—the ritual commemorations, features of the landscape, stories, dances, and songs that keep their memories of the conflict alive. The inclusion of numerous and extensive interviews and songs is an important feature of this book, allowing Micronesians to speak for themselves about their experiences. In addition, they also reveal distinctively Micronesian cultural memories of war. Memories of War preserves powerful and poignant memories for Micronesians; it also demonstrates to students of history and culture the extent to which cultural practices and values shape the remembrance of personal experience.