The Luftwaffe And The War At Sea

Author : David C. Isby
Publisher : Greenhill Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784382469

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The Luftwaffe and the War at Sea is a collection of fascinating accounts written by German military officers – both Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe – about the naval war in the air in the North Atlantic and around Great Britain. Most of the documents were written immediately post-war as part of the Allied debriefing programme. However, some are wartime German originals produced for internal use by military staff, but all have the value of immediacy; they were written when memories were fresh and, in many cases, by those who were directly caught up in the action. These men were personally involved in all aspects of the German attempts to control the seas through maritime power, from the use of Ju 87 Stuka dive-bombers during the invasion of Norway to the missions of FW 200 Condors in cooperation with the U-boat campaign against Britain's Atlantic lifelines. The writers include such well-known names as Grossadmiral Karl Doenitz, Kontreadmiral Gerhard Wagner, General der Flieger, Ulrich O. E. Kessler and Vizeadmiral Eberhard Weichold. The history recounted in these reports is unique and first-hand, allowing the reader a fresh perspective on those famous campaigns. Furthermore, much of that wartime experience was harnessed during the formation of the Bundersmarine's Marineflieger in the 1950s that then served throughout the Cold War. Today it still participates in the global war on terror with its Atlantic marine patrols.

Author : David C. Isby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 1784382442

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Luftwaffe and the War at Sea by David C. Isby Pdf

Author : David C. Isby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1853676330

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The Luftwaffe and the War at Sea, 1939-1945 by David C. Isby Pdf

Author : David Isby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1784382450

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The Luftwaffe and the War at Sea: As Seen By Officers of the Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe by David Isby Pdf

Author : Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher : Britannica Educational Publishing
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781615307531

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War at Sea and in the Air by Britannica Educational Publishing Pdf

Although conflict was once restricted to land, the introduction of warships and planes eventually expanded the theater of war to include both water and sky. New combat strategies emerged with these changing technologies and dramatically impacted such events as the First World War. This comprehensive volume examines the various crafts that have shifted the front lines of war to previously unimagined heights and depths and the tactics that have accompanied these developments.

Author : Adam R. A. Claasen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050705147

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Hitler's Northern War by Adam R. A. Claasen Pdf

Adolf Hitler had high hopes for his conquest of Norway, which held both great symbolic and great strategic value for the Fuhrer. Despite early successes, however, his ambitious northern campaign foundered and ultimately failed. Adam Claasen for the first time reveals the full story of this neglected episode and shows how it helped doom the Third Reich to defeat. Hitler and Raeder, the chief of the German navy, were determined to take and keep Norway. By doing so, they hoped to preempt Allied attempts to outflank Germany, protect sea lanes for German ships, access precious Scandinavian minerals for war production, and provide a launchpad for Luftwaffe and naval operations against Great Britain. Beyond those strategic objectives, Hitler also envisioned Norway as part of a pan-Nordic stronghold—a centerpiece of his new world order. But, as Claasen shows, Hitler's grand expectations were never realized. Gring's Luftwaffe was the vital spearhead in the invasion of Norway, which marked a number of wartime firsts. Among other things, it involved the first large-scale aerial operations over sea rather than land, the first time operational objectives and logistical needs were fulfilled by air power, and the first deployment of paratroopers. Although it got off to a promising start, the German effort, particularly against British and arctic convoys, was greatly hampered by flawed strategic thinking, interservice rivalries between the Luftwaffe and navy, the failure to develop a long-range heavy bomber, the diversion of planes and personnel to shore up the German war effort elsewhere, and the northern theater's harsh climate and terrain. Claasen's study covers every aspect of this ill-fated campaign from the 1940 invasion until war's end and shows how it was eventually relegated to a backwater status as Germany fought to survive in an increasingly unwinnable war. His compelling account sharpens our picture of the German air force and widens our understanding of the Third Reich's way of war.

Author : David C. Isby
Publisher : Greenhill Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784382476

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The Luftwaffe and the War at Sea by David C. Isby Pdf

The Luftwaffe and the War at Sea is a collection of fascinating accounts written by German military officers – both Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe – about the naval war in the air in the North Atlantic and around Great Britain. Most of the documents were written immediately post-war as part of the Allied debriefing programme. However, some are wartime German originals produced for internal use by military staff, but all have the value of immediacy; they were written when memories were fresh and, in many cases, by those who were directly caught up in the action. These men were personally involved in all aspects of the German attempts to control the seas through maritime power, from the use of Ju 87 Stuka dive-bombers during the invasion of Norway to the missions of FW 200 Condors in cooperation with the U-boat campaign against Britain's Atlantic lifelines. The writers include such well-known names as Grossadmiral Karl Doenitz, Kontreadmiral Gerhard Wagner, General der Flieger, Ulrich O. E. Kessler and Vizeadmiral Eberhard Weichold. The history recounted in these reports is unique and first-hand, allowing the reader a fresh perspective on those famous campaigns. Furthermore, much of that wartime experience was harnessed during the formation of the Bundersmarine's Marineflieger in the 1950s that then served throughout the Cold War. Today it still participates in the global war on terror with its Atlantic marine patrols.

Author : Richard Hough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0688079539

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The Longest Battle by Richard Hough Pdf

Written by a highly qualified naval historian, this is a succinct and lively one-volume history of the strategies and actions in which the navies of the Allied and Axis powers were involved in World War II. 24 black-and-white photos.

Author : Lawrence Paterson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526740052

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Eagles over the Sea 1935-1942 by Lawrence Paterson Pdf

The arduous development of a dedicated naval air arm for Germany’s resurgent military was fraught with the kind of fierce inter-service rivalry that was rife throughout the turbulent history of the Third Reich. However, almost despite the odds, a small dedicated maritime strike force was assembled, germinating during the Spanish Civil War before being committed to action from the first days of the invasion of Poland. Concurrently, the operational Luftwaffe developed its own maritime units that would eventually subsume all of the Kriegsmarine-controlled formations as the war years progressed. This new book by the well-known author of German naval operations in WWII offers, for the first time, an in-depth study of all the Luftwaffe maritime operations. This is the first of two volumes and takes the story up to 1942. The story of Luftwaffe maritime operations has frequently been written about in fragmentary terms, delineating between the planned naval air arm operating under Kriegsmarine direction and the ‘operational Luftwaffe’. Each branch of service — and even aircraft type — has usually been studied in isolation. This book, however, broadens the lens to study the development of German naval aircraft as a whole, not as separate independent services but rather as a concerted attempt to engage the enemy at sea in every theatre of operations, from Norway and Western Europe to the Mediterranean and the Eastern fronts, and, of course, over the Atlantic. Through ship-board aircraft, torpedo bomber attacks, minelaying and reconnaissance missions, Luftwaffe maritime aircraft played a vital role in Germany’s naval war and the author analyses all the operations and the successes in the early years of the War. This first volume ends in 1942 when, despite great success, petty rivalry and naked arrogance combined to foreshadow the eventual defeat of the Luftwaffe’s war at sea. Heavily illustrated throughout, this detailed and exciting operational history will be of huge appeal to both naval and aviation historians and enthusiasts.

Author : Janusz Piekałkiewicz
Publisher : Blandford
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UGA:32108019136533

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Sea War, 1939-1945 by Janusz Piekałkiewicz Pdf

Author : Nathan Miller
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015034430044

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War at Sea by Nathan Miller Pdf

Covers each of the sea battles of World War II as recorded in ship logs, intelligence documents, official reports, and servicemen interviews.

Author : John Hamilton
Publisher : Blandford
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000012641789

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War at Sea, 1939-1945 by John Hamilton Pdf

Author : Lawrence Paterson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526740038

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Eagles Over the Sea by Lawrence Paterson Pdf

The arduous development of a dedicated naval air arm for Germany’s resurgent military was fraught with the kind of fierce inter-service rivalry that was rife throughout the turbulent history of the Third Reich. However, almost despite the odds, a small dedicated maritime strike force was assembled, germinating during the Spanish Civil War before being committed to action from the first days of the invasion of Poland. Concurrently, the operational Luftwaffe developed its own maritime units that would eventually subsume all of the Kriegsmarine-controlled formations as the war years progressed. This new book by the well-known author of German naval operations in WWII offers, for the first time, an in-depth study of all the Luftwaffe maritime operations. This is the first of two volumes and takes the story up to 1942. The story of Luftwaffe maritime operations has frequently been written about in fragmentary terms, delineating between the planned naval air arm operating under Kriegsmarine direction and the ‘operational Luftwaffe’. Each branch of service — and even aircraft type — has usually been studied in isolation. This book, however, broadens the lens to study the development of German naval aircraft as a whole, not as separate independent services but rather as a concerted attempt to engage the enemy at sea in every theatre of operations, from Norway and Western Europe to the Mediterranean and the Eastern fronts, and, of course, over the Atlantic. Through ship-board aircraft, torpedo bomber attacks, minelaying and reconnaissance missions, Luftwaffe maritime aircraft played a vital role in Germany’s naval war and the author analyses all the operations and the successes in the early years of the War. This first volume ends in 1942 when, despite great success, petty rivalry and naked arrogance combined to foreshadow the eventual defeat of the Luftwaffe’s war at sea. Heavily illustrated throughout, this detailed and exciting operational history will be of huge appeal to both naval and aviation historians and enthusiasts.

Author : Geirr H. Haarr
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848321403

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The Gathering Storm by Geirr H. Haarr Pdf

The term 'the phony war' is often applied to the first months of the Second World War, a term suggesting inaction or passivity. That may have been the perception of the war on land, but at sea it was very different. This new book is a superb survey of the fierce naval struggles, from 1939 up to the invasion of the Norway in April 1940.??The author begins the book with the sinking of the German fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919 and then covers the rebuilding of the Kriegsmarine and parallel developments in the Royal Navy, and summarises relevant advances in European navies. The main part of the book then describes the actions at sea starting with the fall of Poland. There is a complex, intertwined narrative that follows. The sinking of Courageous, the German mining of the British East Coast, the Northern Patrol, the sinking of Rawalpindi, small ship operations in the North Sea and German Bight, the Altmark incident are all covered. Further afield the author deals with the German surface raiders and looks at the early stages of the submarine war in the Atlantic.??As with his previous books, Geirr Haarr has researched extensively in German, British, and other archives, and the work is intended to paint a balanced and detailed picture of this significant period of the war when the opposing naval forces were adapting to a form of naval warfare quite different to that experienced in WWI.

Author : Dan Van der Vat
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0060159677

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The Atlantic Campaign by Dan Van der Vat Pdf

A brilliantly readable account of the complex, important campaign that came closer than any other to ending World War II in Germany's favor. Van der Vat's comprehensive history is based on extensive research in American, Canadian, British, and German sources. Illustrated.