U S S Seawolf Submarine Raider Of The Pacific

Author : Gerold Frank,James D. Horan,J. M. Eckberg
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781387121014

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U.S.S. Seawolf: Submarine Raider of the Pacific by Gerold Frank,James D. Horan,J. M. Eckberg Pdf

U.S.S. Seawolf: Submarine Raider of the Pacific is the famous first-hand account of the legendary U.S. Navy submarine Seawolf a.k.a. the Wolf which patrolled the Pacific during the conflict with Japan in World War 2. Shoving off the day of Pearl Harbor, Chief Radioman J. (Joseph) M. (Melvin) Eckberg gives the reader a tense and detailed account of his initial 24-month stint aboard the Seawolf and beyond.

Author : Deborah Hopkinson
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781338043792

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Dive! World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific (Scholastic Focus) by Deborah Hopkinson Pdf

Sibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson paints a vivid portrait of the deadly battles that raged in the Pacific during WWII and the remarkable courage of the US submarine sailors who fought them. Dive! World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific tells the incredible story of America's little known "war within a war" -- US submarine warfare during World War II. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the US entered World War II in December 1941 with only 44 Naval submarines -- many of them dating from the 1920s. With the Pacific battleship fleet decimated after Pearl Harbor, it was up to the feisty and heroic sailors aboard the US submarines to stop the Japanese invasion across the Pacific. Including breakouts highlighting submarine life and unsung African-American and female war heroes, award-winning author Deborah Hopkinson uses first-person accounts, archival materials, official Naval documents, and photographs to bring the voices and exploits of these brave service members to life.

Author : George J. Billy
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476636788

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The USS Swordfish by George J. Billy Pdf

Among the more than 260 American submarines that patrolled the Pacific during World War II, the USS Swordfish in 1941 was the first to sink a Japanese armed merchant ship, marking the beginning of the submarine's colorful history. A series of seven commanders led Swordfish's 13 war patrols. Each skipper had a distinct leadership style. Some were successful in sinking enemy ships; others returned to port empty-handed. Yet all patrols risked dangerously close encounters with the enemy and the unforgiving nature of the open sea. Drawing on archival sources and interviews with veteran sailors, this first full-length history of the Swordfish provides detailed accounts of each patrol and covers the mysterious disappearance of the legendary submarine on its final mission.

Author : Ron Martini
Publisher : Ron Martini
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781932606140

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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.

Author : Carl L. Steinhouse
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781728372242

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Truman's Resolve by Carl L. Steinhouse Pdf

Having come off vicious battles in Saipan and Peleliu, this volume continues the war with the invasion of the Philippines, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. The battle for Iwo Jima, coming ever closer to Japan, caused many casualties, the most so far in the Pacific war. But it did not compare to the next battle, the one for Okinawa, where heavy casualties were incurred not only by the troops on the ground but by the sailors on ships, attacked by suicide bombers whose pilot’s sole mission was to crash his bomb-carrying plane into an American ship. With the death of President Roosevelt, Harry Truman faced the momentous decision of dropping the atomic bomb on Japan, wiping out tens of thousands of civilians, or instead invading Japan and face perhaps a million casualties among American forces, given what happened on Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Truman drooped the bomb and the Japanese, after much soul searching, surrendered. Enter General Douglas MacArthur, appointed Supreme Commander for the occupation of Japan. He retained the emperor against the howling of those calling for revenge and retribution, ending up with a totally peaceful occupation up to the time the occupations forces left Japan.

Author : Carl L. Steinhouse
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781728339108

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Nimitz’s Bypass by Carl L. Steinhouse Pdf

In May 1942, submarines begin inflicting heavy damage on Japanese shipping. The marines and Army invade the Gilbert, Marshall and Solomon Islands. In November 1943, American forces, with heavy casualties, take Tarawa. Admiral Nimitz, over many objections, decides to bypass many strongly-held Japanese islands and blockade them to deprive the Japanese of supplies and food. Roosevelt publicly demands “unconditional surrender,” and the Japanese dig in their heels to fight to the death. American forces attack the Solomon and Marshall Islands, creeping ever closer to Japan. MacArthur attacks New Guinea. In June 1944, American forces invade the Mariana Islands of Saipan and Tinian, and later, Pelelui. With these islands in American hands, its bombers can reach the Japanese mainland. Saipan and Pelelui are captured with many American casualties. Fighting becomes a vicious no-holds-barred affair. A famous American, now a pilot, is rescued by submarine, after his plane crashes into the sea.

Author : John J. Sbrega
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1078 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317431794

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The War Against Japan, 1941-1945 by John J. Sbrega Pdf

With over 5,200 entries, this volume remains one of the most extensive annotated bibliographies on the USA’s fight against Japan in the Second World War. Including books, articles, and de-classified documents up to the end of 1987, the book is organized into six categories: Part 1 presents reference works, including encyclopedias, pictorial accounts, military histories, East Asian histories, hisotoriographies. Part 2 covers diplomatic-political aspects of the war against Japan. Part 3 contains sources on the economic and legal aspects of the war against Japan. Part 4 presents sources on the military apsects of the war – embracing land, air and sea forces. Religious aspects of the war are covered in Part 5 and Part 6 deals with the social and cultural aspects, including substantial sections on the treatment of Japanese minorities in the USA, Hawaii, Canada and Peru.

Author : Susan Provost Beller
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780822563815

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Battling in the Pacific by Susan Provost Beller Pdf

Examines the life of American soldiers fighting in the Pacific during World War II.

Author : Adrian R. Martin,Larry W. Stephenson
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781603441841

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Operation PLUM by Adrian R. Martin,Larry W. Stephenson Pdf

They went in as confident young warriors. They came out as battle-scarred veterans, POW camp survivors . . . or worse. The Army Air Corps’ 27th Bombardment Group arrived in the Philippines in November 1941 with 1,209 men; one year later, only 20 returned to the United States. The Japanese attacked the Philippines on the same morning as Pearl Harbor and invaded soon after. Allied air routes back to the Philippines were soon cut, forcing pilots to fight their air war from bases in Java, Australia, and New Guinea. The men on Bataan were eventually taken prisoner and forced into the infamous Death March. The 27th and other such units were pivotal in delaying the Japanese timetable for conquest. If not for these units, some have suggested, the Allied offensive in the Pacific might have started in Hawaii or even California instead of New Guinea and the surrounding islands. Based largely on primary materials, including a fifty-nine-page report written by the surviving unit members in September 1942, Operation PLUM (from the code name for the U.S. Army in the Philippines) gives an account of the 27th Bombardment Group and, through it, the opening months of the Pacific theater. Military historians and readers interested in World War II will appreciate the rich perspective presented in Operation PLUM

Author : Frederick P. Close
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810874664

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Tokyo Rose / An American Patriot by Frederick P. Close Pdf

Tokyo Rose / An American Patriot explores the parallel lives of World War II legend Tokyo Rose and a Japanese American woman named Iva Toguri. Trapped in Tokyo during the war and forced to broadcast on Japanese radio, Toguri steadfastly refused to renounce her U.S. citizenship and surreptitiously aided Allied POWs. Despite these patriotic actions, she foolishly identified herself to the press after the war as Tokyo Rose. This book assembles a collection of images from American pre-war popular culture that provided impetus for the legend of Tokyo Rose and analyzes the wartime situation of servicemen, which caused their imaginations to create the mythical femme fatale even though no Japanese announcer ever used the name Tokyo Rose.

Author : Frederick P. Close
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810867772

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Tokyo Rose / An American Patriot by Frederick P. Close Pdf

Tokyo Rose / An American Patriot explores the parallel lives of World War II legend Tokyo Rose and a Japanese American woman named Iva Toguri. Trapped in Tokyo during the war and forced to broadcast on Japanese radio, Toguri steadfastly refused to renounce her U.S. citizenship and surreptitiously aided Allied POWs. Despite these patriotic actions, she foolishly identified herself to the press after the war as Tokyo Rose. This book assembles a collection of images from American pre-war popular culture that provided impetus for the legend of Tokyo Rose and analyzes the wartime situation of servicemen, which caused their imaginations to create the mythical femme fatale even though no Japanese announcer ever used the name Tokyo Rose.

Author : Roy Barnard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : MINN:31951D00678153E

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The Era of World War II by Roy Barnard Pdf

Author : Robert James Carmack
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781665703765

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Clan Cormac by Robert James Carmack Pdf

This is the story of one innocent orphaned child; wandering a battlefield in Ireland in 908 AD, who would be given a new name and a new destiny. Grown into manhood, he could never have foreseen how his existence would cascade down through the ages forever intersecting and interweaving amongst the intricate web of humanity. The child given the name Angus Cormac would live his life in a most ordinary way leaving behind five sons who would each leave a legacy that would reverberate throughout the ages. Follow the Cormac heritage as it intertwines with the people and events that helped form mankind’s history!

Author : Michael Green,Gladys Green
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0736827218

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Attack Submarines by Michael Green,Gladys Green Pdf

Describes the Seawolf class attack submarine, including its history, equipment, weapons, tactics, and future with the U.S. Navy. Includes photo diagram.

Author : US Army Military History Research Collection
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112117093

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Special Bibliographic Series by US Army Military History Research Collection Pdf