World War Ii As Seen Through The Eyes Of United States Navy Cruisers

Author : George J. Chambers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Battle cruisers
ISBN : 0788456660

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World War II as Seen Through the Eyes of United States Navy Cruisers by George J. Chambers Pdf

This comprehensive two-volume set details the role played by the eighty-three light and heavy United States Navy cruisers that fought in World War II against the Axis Powers in the Atlantic Ocean, the English Channel, the Mediterranean Sea, the Norwegian Sea, the Barents Sea, the Bering Sea, the Pacific Ocean, the Antarctic Ocean and elsewhere. Cruisers saw extensive action in both the Pacific and Atlantic/European Theaters of operations, and fought in every major sea engagement with the exception of the Second Battle of Guadalcanal and the night action at Vella LaLavalla. During the course of World War II, cruisers performed a variety of missions including scouting, offensive strikes against surface and land targets, defensive actions in support of aircraft carriers, escorting and protecting destroyers as they executed their torpedo attacks, and escorting convoys. Sixty-six cruisers were either damaged or sunk by enemy action; twenty-three heavy cruisers were damaged by bombs, torpedoes, suicide planes or during strafing attacks and thirty-three light cruisers were damaged from the same causes. These casualties occurred during actions against aircraft, submarines, surface craft or shore batteries. In Chapter I, dates and operating theaters are co-mingled. From then on, each chapter addresses a specific year and is divided into specific theatres of operation. This work outlines the organizations that they served with and the role that each ship played, both individually and in fleet actions. Allied cruisers that served with the U.S. cruisers are also mentioned. All accounts are based on entries in individual cruisers or other ships Logs, War Diaries, and Action Reports. In addition to official records, the author has drawn on the vast body of knowledge compiled by historians over the past seventy plus years. Appendix A contains an alphabetical listing of all the United States cruisers that served at some period during World War II; Appendix B contains the same list arranged by date of commissioning. An extensive list of names of people involved, places and ships and aircraft has been compiled in the index.

Author : George Chambers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0788456644

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0788456644 by George Chambers Pdf

Author : Jak P. Mallmann Showell
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783469178

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Hitler's Navy by Jak P. Mallmann Showell Pdf

The German Navy, both before the War and throughout the years of fighting, was heavily outnumbered by the navies of Great Britain and the United States; nonetheless, it proved to be serious thorn in the sides of its adversaries. The U-boat war in the North Atlantic threatened the very liberation of Europe, while the major warships posed a constant threat to the Allied shipping lanes. This important reference book is an indispensable guide to the ships, organisation, command and rank structure, and leaders of the Kriegsmarine, and helps explain why it was such a potent force. A detailed text, augmented by photos, maps and diagrams, studies the German Navy from the Treaty of Versailles to the collapse of the U-boat offensive and the demise of the Third Reich. After covering the background organisation and naval bases, the author gives detailed descriptions of all the classes of ship from the battleships to motor torpedo boats and minesweepers. The officers and sailors are covered along with their uniforms and awards and insignia. Biographies of notable personalities and a chronology of the main naval events are included, as well as appendices and a select bibliography.Based on the author's 1979 title The German Navy in World War Two, this is a classic work of reference for a new generation of readers.

Author : Jeffrey Cox
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472849885

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Dark Waters, Starry Skies by Jeffrey Cox Pdf

Esteemed Pacific War historian Jeffrey Cox has produced a fast-paced and absorbing read of the crucial New Georgia phase of the Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign during the Pacific War. Thousands of miles from friendly ports, the US Navy had finally managed to complete the capture of Guadalcanal from the Japanese in early 1943. Now the Allies sought to keep the offensive momentum won at such a high cost. This is the central plotline running through this page-turning history beginning with the Japanese Operation I-Go and the American ambush of Admiral Yamamoto and continuing on to the Allied invasion of New Georgia, northwest of Guadalcanal in the middle of the Solomon Islands and the location of a major Japanese base. Determined not to repeat their mistakes at Guadalcanal, the Allies nonetheless faltered in their continuing efforts to roll back the Japanese land, air and naval forces. Using first-hand accounts from both sides, this book vividly recreates all the terror and drama of the nighttime naval battles during this phase of the Solomons campaign and the ferocious firestorm many Marines faced as they disembarked from their landing craft. The reader is transported to the bridge to stand alongside Admiral Walden Ainsworth as he sails to stop another Japanese reinforcement convoy for New Georgia, and vividly feels the fear of an 18-year-old Marine as he fights for survival against a weakened but still determined enemy. Dark Waters, Starry Skies is an engrossing history which weaves together strategy and tactics with a blow-by-blow account of every battle at a vital point in the Pacific War that has not been analyzed in this level of detail before.

Author : Jeffrey Cox
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472826398

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Morning Star, Midnight Sun by Jeffrey Cox Pdf

Following the disastrous Java Sea campaign, the Allies went on the offensive in the Pacific in a desperate attempt to halt the Japanese forces that were rampaging across the region. With the conquest of Australia a very real possibility, the stakes were high. Their target: the Japanese-held Solomon Islands, in particular the southern island of Guadalcanal. Hamstrung by arcane pre-war thinking and a bureaucratic mind-set, the US Navy had to adapt on the fly in order to compete with the mighty Imperial Japanese Navy, whose ingenuity and creativity thus far had fostered the creation of its Pacific empire. Starting with the amphibious assault on Savo Island, the campaign turned into an attritional struggle where the evenly matched foes sought to grind out a victory. Following on from his hugely successful book Rising Sun, Falling Skies, Jeffrey R. Cox tells the gripping story of the first Allied offensive of the Pacific War, as they sought to prevent Japan from cutting off Australia and regaining dominance in the Pacific.

Author : Samuel Eliot Morison
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0252070372

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History of United States Naval Operations in World War II: Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls, June 1942-April 1944 by Samuel Eliot Morison Pdf

The University of Illinois Press continues its paperback release of Samuel Eliot Morison's panoramic fifteen-volume naval history with three volumes that chronicle the war in the Pacific from May 1942 through May 1944. This new edition will be issued in increments of three volumes per season through Spring 2003.Morison's genius for capturing the flash and fire and the pathos of combat infuses his narrative with an immense vitality and suspense. This is not an official history, in the ordinary sense of that term, but Morison's history, a gripping, face-to-face encounter with the human drama of war.Volume 4: Coral Sea, Midway and Submarine Actions, May 1942 -- August 1942 details the American victory in the Coral Sea and the U.S. Navy's stunning defeat of a far superior Japanese force at Midway, as well as the events leading up to the six-month struggle at Guadalcanal. This volume also provides a richly detailed look at the first-year exploits of the Silent Service: the fledgling American submarine corps in the Pacific. Morison supplements his firsthand experience of American operations and access to Allied documents with critical information from the Japanese side.

Author : William T. Larkins
Publisher : Schiffer Military History
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0764300881

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Battleship and Cruiser Aircraft of the United States Navy, 1910-1949 by William T. Larkins Pdf

From the 1920s through World War II, aircraft operating from catapults were used for spotting gunfire and scouting ahead of the fleet. Flying these planes was unique and the dramatic launching and recovery operations are covered by both photographs and text. Colors and markings are detailed and special attention has been paid to images showing catapult and ship details for both the ship and aircraft modeler.

Author : Jaideep Gupte
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781685389109

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World War II - Day by Day - A Bird's Eye View Of The Most Tumultuous Event by Jaideep Gupte Pdf

Born in 1889 to a family of farmers in a quaint little town of Braunau am Inn in Austria, this scion with a childhood like any other would one day rise like a phoenix from the ashes of World War I and single-handedly shape the course of history between 1939-45. His insatiable ambition and lust for power combined with a deep-rooted hatred for the Jews and a mindless obsession with eugenics threatened to rip the very fabric of this planet. Witness how the Allies put an end to Adolf Hitler’s juggernaut through a fascinating and insightful day by day narrative by the author, Jaideep Gupte. Enhanced by rich visuals, the book almost transports you to ground zero. All the theatres of the war (Western Front – Europe, Eastern Front – Soviet Union, Pacific – Japan with its islands and North Africa) have been dealt with by Jaideep with equal weightage. It also includes the turning points in the war, some stunning war inventions that created a buzz, Hitler’s greatest blunders, his search for pure Aryan blood, an account of his henchmen and their fate as Nazi war criminals, the ever spewing Nazi propaganda machine and even a peek into the psyche of Hitler himself. It lets one experience World War II in all its entirety with a helicopter view never seen before.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Communism
ISBN : UOM:39076000282280

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Problems of Communism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Army Library (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : UVA:X004818935

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Soviet Military Power by Army Library (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : UOM:39015035596447

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Infantry Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UFL:31262096831564

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All Hands by Anonim Pdf

Author : Malcolm Muir
Publisher : Department of the Navy
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UCR:31210012142947

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Black Shoes and Blue Water by Malcolm Muir Pdf

Contributions to Naval History No. 6. Presents Professor Muir's account of the thirty-year development of surface warfare capabilities, especially within the Navy's cruiser and destroyer force. Pays particular attention to the development of weapons, the evolution of sensors and command and control systems, and the institutional steps taken to professionalize the surface warfare community.

Author : Ron MacKay, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476623283

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The U.S. Navy's "Interim" LSM(R)s in World War II by Ron MacKay, Jr. Pdf

The "Interim" LSM(R) or Landing Ship, Medium (Rocket) was a revolutionary development in rocket warfare in World War II and the U.S. Navy's first true rocket ship. An entirely new class of commissioned warship and the forerunners of today's missile-firing naval combatants, these ships began as improvised conversions of conventional amphibious landing craft in South Carolina's Charleston Navy Yard during late 1944. They were rushed to the Pacific Theatre to support the U.S. Army and Marines with heavy rocket bombardments that devastated Japanese forces on Okinawa in 1945. Their primary mission was to deliver maximum firepower to enemy targets ashore. Yet LSM(R)s also repulsed explosive Japanese speed boats, rescued crippled warships, recovered hundreds of survivors at sea and were deployed as antisubmarine hunter-killers. Casualties were staggering: enemy gunfire blasted one, while kamikaze attacks sank three, crippled a fourth and grazed two more. This book provides a comprehensive operational history of the Navy's 12 original "Interim" LSM(R)s.

Author : David Kite Allison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Radar
ISBN : UIUC:30112072192039

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New Eye for the Navy by David Kite Allison Pdf

This study narrates the origin of radar at the Naval Research Laboratory. Radar should be seen as the product not simply of one man or even a group of men but rather as the result of individuals working within the structure of a mission-oriented research-and-development facility. To comprehend how radar was developed, when it was developed, and why, one must follow not just the evolution of technical progress but also the administrative and political decisions that shaped it. One must understand how the talents and motivations of the people who created this new device were related to the particular institutional situation and historical context in which they labored. The account is the story of a modern research-and-development laboratory in action. It discusses one major accomplishment of one institution. But it is also written to contribute to a broader understanding of the history of research and development laboratories in general and of the influence they have had on the course of modern American history. The work of the Naval Research Laboratory on radar is a significant episode in that story.