Author : David Mason
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:600799340
U-Boat, the Secret Menace
David Mason
U Boat The Secret Menace
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U-boat: the Secret Menace
David Mason
Author : David Mason
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 0356025470
U-boat: the Secret Menace by David Mason Pdf
The Twilight of the U-Boats
Bernard Edwards
Author : Bernard Edwards
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783379453
The Twilight of the U-Boats by Bernard Edwards Pdf
“A gripping narrative” of the German submarines that nearly changed the outcome of World War II from the author of Dönitz and the Wolf Packs (Naval Review). In essence, this is the story of U-223, commanded by Karl-Jurgen Wächter from the time of her commissioning in Kiel in January 1943 through a murderous career to her eventual but dramatic demise in the Mediterranean in March 1944. At the same time, the book covers the declining fortunes of the U-boat arm as a whole from early 1943 when it seemed invincible and seriously threatened the Allies with defeat to the end of the war. “An intimate narrative, one driven by human endurance and frailty.” —Amsterdam Nautical College Newsletter
U-Boats off the Outer Banks
Jim Bunch
Author : Jim Bunch
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439661734
U-Boats off the Outer Banks by Jim Bunch Pdf
From January to July 1942, more than seventy-five ships sank to North Carolina's "Graveyard of the Atlantic" off the coast of the Outer Banks. A Standard oil tanker sank just sixty miles from Cape Hatteras. German U-boats sank ships in some of the most harrowing sea fighting close to America's shore. Germany's Operation Drumbeat, led by Admiral Karl Donitz, brought fear to the local communities. The U-85 was the first U-boat sunk by American surface forces, and local divers later discovered a rare Enigma machine aboard. Author Jim Bunch traces the destructive history of world war on the shores of the Outer Banks.
The U-Boat Wars
Edwin P. Hoyt
Author : Edwin P. Hoyt
Publisher : Cooper Square Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461661306
The U-Boat Wars by Edwin P. Hoyt Pdf
The remarkably effective submarines (U-boats) of the German Navy devastated the Allies during the first part of World War II and very nearly brought British and American sea forces to their knees. Military historian Hoyt here describes the years when U-boat "wolf packs" under the command of Admiral Karl Doenitz terrorized the Allies, sinking a third of Britain's battleships in 1939, and how the Allies came back, developing anti-submarine weapons that sent almost three-fourths of the U-boat crews to the bottom of the ocean. The U-Boat Wars is a gripping account of the battles at sea and the men—Doenitz, Churchill, sub-hunter Captain F. J. Walker, and others—who decided the fate of the Atlantic.
The Submariner's Dictionary Or Submariner's Compendium of Terms & Tar's Handbook of Naval Verbiage and Retired Guy's Re-familiarization Manual
Ron Martini
Author : Ron Martini
Publisher : Ron Martini
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781932606140
The Submariner's Dictionary Or Submariner's Compendium of Terms & Tar's Handbook of Naval Verbiage and Retired Guy's Re-familiarization Manual by Ron Martini Pdf
Submariners are a tight knit group of men bound together by training and experience, and with a language all their own. That language is perhaps a little vulgar, but never intentionally demeaning, and a little irreverent but still worldly. This work is an attempt to preserve and explain some of these curious guys who so proudly wear a shiny metal pin that looks like a strange pair of fish on their left breast. This process of accumulating this new language begins in Boot Camp, and is added to with every change of duty station the sailor undergoes. It is heard aboard the boats and, unknowingly, by family members who can't understand terms like head, deck, and overhead, and who think SOS is a distress signal.
Code Name Caesar
Jerome Preisler,Kenneth Sewell
Author : Jerome Preisler,Kenneth Sewell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101568903
Code Name Caesar by Jerome Preisler,Kenneth Sewell Pdf
In the waning days of World War II, a little-known battle took place under the frozen seas off the coast of Norway . . . and changed the course of the war. In February of 1944, Germany and Japan devised a desperate plan to escape defeat. The Germans would send Japan a submarine—boat U-864—packed with their most advanced rocket and jet aircraft technology. Japan could then reestablish air superiority in the Pacific, drawing the attention of Allied forces long enough for Germany to regroup. Meanwhile, British code breakers, working with the Norwegian underground, had discovered the plan. But even though they were unable to stop the submarine from embarking, the British submarine HMS Venturer was waiting for it at sea. In a cat-and-mouse battle beneath the waves, they hunted one another, each waiting to strike. The Venturer won the game, becoming the only submarine in history to sink another sub in underwater combat. This is the dramatic, action-packed account of one of the greatest unsung victories in military history, and of a historical moment in the annals of naval warfare.
Building for Battle: U-Boat Pens of the Atlantic Battle
Philip Kaplan
Author : Philip Kaplan
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526705464
Building for Battle: U-Boat Pens of the Atlantic Battle by Philip Kaplan Pdf
The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril - Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Churchill, as a former First Lord of the Admiralty, was well versed in the importance of Britain protecting itself at sea. In the opening years of the Second World War, Germanys U-boat (submarine) fleet was tasked with attacking and destroying the supply ships that Britain depended upon for its survival.The U-boats were under the command of Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz who, for much of the war, effectively guided that strategy. There was a very real possibility that the British people would starve if the U-boats succeeded in their campaign. When France fell to the German forces in 1940, Hitlers Ubootwaffe gained a significant asset in five important ports along the Brittany coast - Brest, Lorient, St. Nazaire, La Palace and Bordeaux. The use of these ports put Germanys submarine force hundreds of miles closer to the action in the North Atlantic, the routes of the Allied supply convoys which were operating mainly between Halifax, Nova Scotia and various English port cities. This afforded the U-boats several more days at sea on their deadly patrols than was possible while they had been based in Germany and German-occupied Norway.In this new publication from Philip Kaplan, the massive bunkers or pens constructed in Brittany by the laborers of the German Organisation Todt are revisited. These giant structures, some of which sheltered more than a dozen submarines at a time, still exist because they were built with concrete ceilings more than three meters thick. With equally impressive supporting walls, they suffered relatively little damage in the wartime bombing raids of the Royal Air Force and the US Eighth Army Air Force. Illustrated with more than 150 rare and compelling photo images, this book is a richly rewarding journey back across time to some of the most intriguing and electrifying sites from the war years. The story of the pen shelters and their part in that war is both fascinating and enduring.
War of the U-Boats
Bernard Edwards
Author : Bernard Edwards
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781596296
War of the U-Boats by Bernard Edwards Pdf
From the earliest days of the Second World War, Hitlers U-Boats were unleashed with the mission of sinking as much Allied merchant tonnage as possible. From the sinking of the Glasgow-based ship Olivegrove by U-23, to the end of hostilities six years later officers and seamen of the Merchant Marine played a key role in winning the war by their blatant disregard of the risks from Axis forces. The most dangerous were the U-Boats working unseen but there were also surface raiders and aircraft.All too often the result was the loss of ship, cargo and, tragically, crew. But as described in this excellent book great gallantry against overwhelming odds brought rewards and surprising results.We learn of acts of both chivalry and brutal activity by the enemy.The actions described in this book are varied but always make for excellent reading.
Hitler's War Beneath the Waves
Michael FitzGerald
Author : Michael FitzGerald
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781839403873
Hitler's War Beneath the Waves by Michael FitzGerald Pdf
At the beginning of World War II, the devastating impact of German submarines on both the Royal Navy and merchant shipping saw Britain on the brink of starvation and defeat. The enemy was formidable. U-boat crews saw themselves as an elite and they preferred to scuttle their vessels at the end of the war rather than surrender. They suffered the heaviest losses of any branch of the German services: out of 40,900 men, 28,000 were killed and 5,000 taken prisoner; by 1945, the average age was 19 and the survival rate was only three missions. This is the story of how the Allies redressed the balance of power, focusing in particular on the role of the wolfpacks of U-boats in the Atlantic, whose stealthy presence beneath the waves ensured that British ships diced with death every time they put to sea.
Torpedo Junction
Homer H Hickam
Author : Homer H Hickam
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1996-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612515786
Torpedo Junction by Homer H Hickam Pdf
In 1942 German U-boats turned the shipping lanes off Cape Hatteras into a sea of death. Cruising up and down the U.S. eastern seaboard, they sank 259 ships, littering the waters with cargo and bodies. As astonished civilians witnessed explosions from American beaches, fighting men dubbed the area "Torpedo Junction." And while the U.S. Navy failed to react, a handful of Coast Guard sailors scrambled to the front lines. Outgunned and out-maneuvered, they heroically battled the deadliest fleet of submarines ever launched. Never was Germany closer to winning the war. In a moving ship-by-ship account of terror and rescue at sea, Homer Hickam chronicles a little-known saga of courage, ingenuity, and triumph in the early years of World War II. From nerve-racking sea duels to the dramatic ordeals of sailors and victims on both sides of the battle, Hickam dramatically captures a war we had to win--because this one hit terrifyingly close to home.
Anti-Submarine Warfare
David Owen
Author : David Owen
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783468973
Anti-Submarine Warfare by David Owen Pdf
A deep dive into the tactics and technology used to defend against submarines—from the opening of the First World War through World War II and beyond. The submarine was undoubtedly the most potent purely naval weapon of the twentieth century. In two world wars, enemy underwater campaigns were very nearly successful in thwarting Allied hopes of victory—indeed, annihilation of Japanese shipping by US Navy submarines is an indicator of what might have been. That the submarine was usually defeated is a hugely important story in naval history, yet this is the first book to treat the subject as a whole in a readable and accessible manner. It concerns individual heroism and devotion to duty, but also ingenuity, technical advances and originality of tactical thought. What developed was an endless battle between forces above and below the surface, where a successful innovation by one side eventually produces a countermeasure by the other in a lethal struggle for supremacy. Development was not a straight line: wrong ideas and assumptions led to defeat and disaster. “Iconography (with dozens of photographs and often large-format diagrams), a vast bibliography and a complete and documented general approach make this volume a work of great quality and of great interest for all enthusiasts and scholars of this very interesting subject.”—Storia Militare “The modeller will not only find the text engaging but there is a superb collection of photographs and illustrations which of course include submarines, corvettes and destroyers. Subjects which the modeller increasingly appreciates. Highly recommended.”—Model Boats
Atrocity, Deviance, and Submarine Warfare
Nachman Ben-Yehuda
Author : Nachman Ben-Yehuda
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472118892
Atrocity, Deviance, and Submarine Warfare by Nachman Ben-Yehuda Pdf
In an era of changing ethics, the submarine has inaugurated a new type of unrestricted naval warfare
Endgame
John White
Author : John White
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750979535
Endgame by John White Pdf
By the time of the Normandy invasion in June 1944, the U-boats were a beaten force, hunted and harried wherever they appeared by Allied warships and aircraft. The U-boats proved to be little more than pin pricks against the landings, and advancing Anglo-American armies had driven them out of their French west Atlantic bases all the way back to Norway by September 1944. Yet the U-boat force mounted a sustained and effective campaign from their Norwegian bases. Admiral Doenitz revived the U-boat War against Allied merchant shipping with new inventions in the face of a massive Allied naval defence while Germany collapsed. The east coast waters were shallow and heavily mined. Other German naval forces made a significant contribution. The campaign also saw the first and only appearances of the new Type XXIII electric U-boats, a radically new submarine design, the forerunner of modern diesel-electric submarines. John White examines in detail the U-boat reaction to the Normandy Landings in June 1944, the Norwegian U-boat bases, German torpedoes, the interference by U-boat Command, the Scapa Flow carrier operation and the Allied response up to the final surrender in May 1945.
Death in the Doldrums
Bernard Edwards
Author : Bernard Edwards
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781596197
Death in the Doldrums by Bernard Edwards Pdf
With their very long range, the giant Type IX U-Cruisers gave Admiral Dnitz's U-boat fleet global reach. Initially these boats operated with considerable success off the East coast of America and in the Caribbean but their main impact was in the Gulf of Guinea 1942-43 which, due to the closure of the Suez Canal, was a vital Allied supply route. Two submarines in particular (U-68 and U-505) had a profound effect causing major panic by their hugely successful operations.