Author : John Winton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 0951448005
The Forgotten Fleet
John Winton
The Forgotten Fleet The Story Of The British Pacific Fleet 1944 45
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The Forgotten Fleet
John Winton
Author : John Winton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : STANFORD:36105080726438
The Forgotten Fleet by John Winton Pdf
The Forgotten Fleet
John Winton
Author : John Winton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0785560602
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Task Force 57
Peter Charles Smith
Author : Peter Charles Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015027911463
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The British Pacific Fleet
David Hobbs
Author : David Hobbs
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783469222
The British Pacific Fleet by David Hobbs Pdf
“Magnificent and important . . . should be on the shelves of anyone with a genuine interest in the history of the Royal Navy in the Second World War.” —Military History Monthly In August 1944 the British Pacific Fleet did not exist. Six months later it was strong enough to launch air attacks on Japanese territory, and by the end of the war it constituted the most powerful force in the history of the Royal Navy, fighting as professional equals alongside the US Navy in the thick of the action. How this was achieved by a nation nearing exhaustion after five years of conflict is a story of epic proportions in which ingenuity, diplomacy and dogged persistence all played a part. As much a political as a technical triumph, the BPF was uniquely complex in its make-up: its C-in-C was responsible to the Admiralty for the general direction of his Fleet; took operational orders from the American Admiral Nimitz; answered to the Government of Australia for the construction and maintenance of a vast base infrastructure, and to other Commonwealth Governments for the ships and men that formed his fully-integrated multi-national fleet. This ground-breaking new work by David Hobbs describes the background, creation and expansion of the BPF from its first tentative strikes, through operations off the coast of Japan to its impact on the immediate post-war period, including the opinions of USN liaison officers attached to the British flagships. The book is the first to demonstrate the real scope and scale of the BPF’s impressive achievement. “Perhaps the greatest Royal Navy story of, at least, the twentieth century.” —Aircrew Book Review
The British Pacific Fleet Experience and Legacy, 1944–50
Jon Robb-Webb
Author : Jon Robb-Webb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317039822
The British Pacific Fleet Experience and Legacy, 1944–50 by Jon Robb-Webb Pdf
The British Pacific Fleet was formed in October 1944 and dispatched to fight alongside the USN in the Central Pacific under Admiral Nimitz. Deploying previously unpublished documents, this book reveals how relations between the UK and US forces developed from a starting point of barely repressed suspicion, to one where both navies came to understand each other and eventually find a remarkable bond. Born out of a shared experience of Kamikaze attacks, extended operations against bitterly hostile shores, the pooling of knowledge and experience, the two navies underpinned the diplomatic moves in both Washington and London. The book carries the legacy of this experience through to the next Anglo-American participation in war, Korea. It illustrates and explains how and why certain lessons were incorporated into the composition, behaviour and structure of the post-war Navy. It demonstrates the significance of what was learned from the USN by the RN and by USN from the RN. As well as examining the background to the largest fleet the Royal Navy ever put to sea, the book also charts its effects on Anglo-American relations, multinational operations, alliance building, and the ways naval forces are shaped by and in turn shape politics. It addresses a period of rapid technological development that witnessed profound changes in the international system, and which raised fundamental questions of what navies were for and how should they operate and organize themselves. In so doing the study illustrates how the experience of a few long months at the end of the war in the Pacific would cast a long shadow over these issues in the very different circumstances of the post-war world.
Task Force 57
Peter C. Smith
Author : Peter C. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 0947554858
Task Force 57 by Peter C. Smith Pdf
Formed in 1944 the British Pacific Fleet was to fight alongside the Americans and so was given an American codename - Task Force 57. But the Pacific theatre was unlike anything the British had experienced before. Surface action was rare and major engagements were fought at ranges of 200 miles. The veterans of the Atlantic, Mediterranean and North Sea had to start again and from the air faced a new deadly enemy - the Kamikaze. Although overshadowed in numbers by the vast American task forces, Task Force 57 made a decisive contribution to victory in the Far East. Peter Smith's volume was the first to fully recount their story and still remains a definitive account of this 'forgotten fleet'.
Sumatra 1944–45
Angus Konstam
Author : Angus Konstam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472862433
Sumatra 1944–45 by Angus Konstam Pdf
The first history of how the aircraft of the British Pacific Fleet shattered Japanese oilfields in Sumatra, starving Japan of oil and proving how Anglo-American navies could fight together. With the war in Europe in its final stages, by 1944 the Royal Navy was able to put together a major force to join the campaign against Japan. The British Pacific Fleet was arguably the most powerful fleet the Royal Navy has ever sent into action. In this book, renowned naval historian Angus Konstam explores how the first target of British naval power in the Pacific would be the strategically vital oil fields in Japanese-occupied Sumatra, part of the Dutch East Indies. Between April 1944 and January 1945, the task force struck oil fields and production centres, Japanese airfields, naval facilities and troop concentrations. Initially working alongside US Navy carriers, and learning their ruthlessly effective fast carrier doctrine, the British would end the Sumatra campaign with a powerful fleet of ten carriers of their own. Packed with dramatic artwork, maps, 3D diagrams and archive photos, this is the first history of the Sumatra raids, a prime example of how naval air power could achieve key strategic ends. They also proved that the Allied navies could fight successfully alongside one another - paving the way for the BPF's participation in the capture of Okinawa.
Task Force 57
Peter C. Smith
Author : Peter C. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:650353663
Task Force 57 by Peter C. Smith Pdf
Sumatra 1944–45
Angus Konstam
Author : Angus Konstam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472862440
Sumatra 1944–45 by Angus Konstam Pdf
The first history of how the aircraft of the British Pacific Fleet shattered Japanese oilfields in Sumatra, starving Japan of oil and proving how Anglo-American navies could fight together. With the war in Europe in its final stages, by 1944 the Royal Navy was able to put together a major force to join the campaign against Japan. The British Pacific Fleet was arguably the most powerful fleet the Royal Navy has ever sent into action. In this book, renowned naval historian Angus Konstam explores how the first target of British naval power in the Pacific would be the strategically vital oil fields in Japanese-occupied Sumatra, part of the Dutch East Indies. Between April 1944 and January 1945, the task force struck oil fields and production centres, Japanese airfields, naval facilities and troop concentrations. Initially working alongside US Navy carriers, and learning their ruthlessly effective fast carrier doctrine, the British would end the Sumatra campaign with a powerful fleet of ten carriers of their own. Packed with dramatic artwork, maps, 3D diagrams and archive photos, this is the first history of the Sumatra raids, a prime example of how naval air power could achieve key strategic ends. They also proved that the Allied navies could fight successfully alongside one another - paving the way for the BPF's participation in the capture of Okinawa.
The British Pacific Fleet in World War II
Waite Brooks
Author : Waite Brooks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1481740350
The British Pacific Fleet in World War II by Waite Brooks Pdf
"This book formed part of an earlier book that I wrote, "A Midshipman's Story" ... it is, with very few changes other than some additional pictures, the same account of the British Pacific Fleet as found in Book II in, "A Midshipman's Story."--Foreword.
The Forgotten Fleet
John Winton
Author : John Winton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1060984406
The Forgotten Fleet by John Winton Pdf
Operation Pacific
Edwyn Gray
Author : Edwyn Gray
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1990-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473816978
Operation Pacific by Edwyn Gray Pdf
A history of the United Kingdom’s contribution to the Pacific theater of the Second World War, by the author of Disasters of the Deep. Hollywood’s version of the World War II in the Pacific has led many people to believe that it was an all-American affair, and that Britain took no part in it. But, as Edwin Gray shows in Operation Pacific, that is false. The British Royal Navy and its Commonwealth partners played a very significant role in the Pacific War. They waged a vigorous, non-stop battle with the enemy from the earliest days to the ultimate triumph of victory. Japanese troops also landed in Malaya and opened hostilities in Britain a full ninety minutes before Nagumo’s dive-bombers swept down on the unsuspecting American pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor to bring the United States into the war. Operation Pacific is the first book to provide a full and detailed account of Britain’s Naval contribution to the ultimate defeat of Japan, a saga that ranges from the darkest days of December, 1941, to the carrier operations and kamikaze attacks of the final battles in 1945. While in no way disparaging the heroic achievements and fighting courage of the U.S. forces in the Pacific, Edwyn Gray reveals that the Royal Navy’s cooperation was not always welcomed by her over-mighty Ally, and that America’s top brass—notably admiral Ernest King and General Douglas MacAuthur—were opposed to British involvement in the Pacific for both practical and political reasons. Operation Pacific is an absorbing story, offering a comprehensive picture of the part played by the Royal Navy and Commonwealth forces in the Far East War.
The Kamikaze Hunters
Will Iredale
Author : Will Iredale
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781681771793
The Kamikaze Hunters by Will Iredale Pdf
In May 1945, with victory in Europe established, the war was all but over. But on the other side of the world, the Allies were still engaged in a bitter struggle to control the Pacific. And it was then that the Japanese unleashed a terrible new form of warfare: the suicide pilots, or Kamikaze.Drawing on meticulous research and unique personal access to the remaining survivors, Will Iredale follows a group of young men from the moment they signed up through their initial training to the terrifying reality of fighting against pilots who, in the cruel last summer of the war, chose death rather than risk their country's dishonorable defeat—and deliberately flew their planes into Allied aircraft carriers.
Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil
Worrall Reed Carter
Author : Worrall Reed Carter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Logistics, Naval
ISBN : IND:30000139871168
