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Author : John L. Dickey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (959 download)
Download or read book A Family Saga: Flush Deck Destroyers, 1917-1955 written by John L. Dickey and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John L. Dickey, II
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781490585154
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (851 download)
Download or read book A Family Saga written by John L. Dickey, II and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Destroyer History Foundation, Merriam Press Naval History 1. Revised Edition (July 2013). In 1916, before the United States joined World War I, Congress authorized 50 destroyers of a new “flush deck” design as part of a program intended to make the United States a major player on the world stage. Deliveries commenced after the United States joined the war in 1917. Although only 41 flush deckers joined the fleet before the Armistice in 1918, construction continued until 273 ships were completed. In 1922, after the Washington Naval Treaties went into effect, the U.S. Navy placed more than half of these new destroyers in reserve. By the end of the 1930s, 103 of them had been lost or retired; after the outbreak of World War II, 50 more were transferred to the United Kingdom. That left the U.S. Navy with 120 flush deckers, still the majority of its destroyer force. In World War II, although poorly matched against modern enemy ships and aircraft, they proved invaluable when converted as transports, minecraft, seaplane tenders and escorts. They operated in nearly every campaign and while one in four was lost, one in four was also decorated, making them the most sacrificed and most honored destroyers in the U.S. Navy's history. In 2000, the late John L. Dickey, II published A FAMILY SAGA: FLUSH-DECK DESTROYERS, 1917–1955, which provided previously-unavailable details on these ships. Now, historian David McComb has integrated Dickey's own errata and addenda with new tables and twice as many photos to bring destroyer enthusiasts an easy-to-read, definitive reference for the largest group of destroyers ever operated by the United States Navy. This revised edition features a full-color cover and interior pages printed on quality white paper for better photo reproduction, with an all-new professional format. 78 photos and drawings; 34 tables; index.
Author : Richard P. Klobuchar
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476605432
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The USS Ward written by Richard P. Klobuchar and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1940, the threat of war in the Pacific forced the United States to expand its fleet quickly. This effort included reconditioning and recommissioning “four stackers” from the navy’s reserve fleet. Built in 1918 to fight German submarines, the USS Ward earned at Pearl Harbor the distinction of firing the first shot in America’s war against Japan. In the three years that followed, it was bombed, shelled, strafed, and finally sunk (on December 7, 1944), yet none of her crew of 125 men ever lost a life in combat. Information is drawn from naval records as well as from interviews with surviving crewmen. Appendices provide Ward technical data, a chronology of major events, listings of citations earned in World War II and of amphibious landings, and a roster of personnel.
Author : John Doughty Alden
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Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (219 download)
Download or read book Flush Decks and Four Pipes, 1917-1955 written by John Doughty Alden and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William W. Rogal
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786455853
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Beyond written by William W. Rogal and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicling the growth of a recruit from boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, to a seasoned troop leader, this memoir also relates the experiences of the 200 marines in A Company, First Battalion, Second Marines, as they engaged in island warfare in the South Pacific at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan and Tinian.
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Total Pages : 1498 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book United States Naval Institute Proceedings written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Morgan
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 184832118X
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)
Download or read book U-Boat Attack Logs written by Daniel Morgan and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-09 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War over 250 Allied warships from a dozen navies were sent to the bottom by German U-boats. This ground-breaking study provides a detailed analysis of every sinking for which source material survives from both the Allied and the German sides, resulting in detailed treatment of the fate of 110 vessels, with the remainder summarised in an extensive appendix. Uniquely, each entry is built around a specialist translation of the relevant segment of the war diary (log) of the U-boat in question, taken directly from the surviving originals remarkably, this represents the first large-scale publication of the U-boat war diaries in any language. The book offers a wealth of new information, not only with respect to the circumstances of the sinkings from both the Allied and German perspectives, but also to the technical environment in which they lived as well as the fate of the crews. The entries include background details on the vessels concerned and the men involved, with a selection of rare and carefully chosen photos from archives and collections around the world. Each entry is itself a compelling narrative, but is backed with a list of sources consulted, including documents, published works and websites. A decade in the making, this is probably the most important book on the U-boat war to be published for many a year
Author : Mark Lardas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472819993
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book US Flush-Deck Destroyers 1916–45 written by Mark Lardas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four pipes and flush decks – these ships were a distinctively American destroyer design. Devised immediately prior to and during the United States' involvement in World War I they dominated the US Navy's destroyer forces all the way through to World War II. They were deployed on North Atlantic and Norwegian Sea convoys, and virtually everywhere in the Pacific, from Alaska to Australia. Fifty were given to Great Britain in its hour of need in 1940, and many would serve in other navies, fighting under the Soviet, Canadian, Norwegian, and even the Imperial Japanese flags. They also served in a variety of roles becoming seaplane tenders, high-speed transports, minesweepers and minelayers. One was even used as a self-propelled mine during Operation Chariot, destroying the dry dock at St. Nazaire. Fully illustrated throughout with commissioned artwork and contemporary photographs, this volume reveals the operational history of these US Navy ships that fought with distinction in both World Wars.
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Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Naval History written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clint Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1621577678
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Tin Cans and Greyhounds written by Clint Johnson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For men on destroyer-class warships during World War I and World War II, battles were waged “against overwhelming odds from which survival could not be expected.” Those were the words Lieutenant Commander Robert Copeland calmly told his crew as their tiny, unarmored destroyer escort rushed toward giant, armored Japanese battleships at the Battle off Samar on October 25, 1944. This action-packed narrative history of destroyer-class ships brings readers inside the half-inch-thick hulls to meet the men who fired the ships' guns, torpedoes, hedgehogs, and depth charges. Nicknamed "tin cans" or "greyhounds," destroyers were fast escort and attack ships that proved indispensable to America's military victories. Beginning with destroyers' first incarnation as torpedo boats in 1874 and ending with World War II, author Clint Johnson shares the riveting stories of the Destroyer Men who fought from inside a "tin can"—risking death by cannons, bombs, torpedoes, fire, and drowning. The British invented destroyers, the Japanese improved them, and the Germans failed miserably with them. It was the Americans who perfected destroyers as the best fighting ship in two world wars. Tin Cans & Greyhounds compares the designs of these countries with focus on the old, modified World War I destroyers, and the new and numerous World War II destroyers of the United States. Tin Cans & Greyhounds details how destroyers fought submarines, escorted convoys, rescued sailors and airmen, downed aircraft, shelled beaches, and attacked armored battleships and cruisers with nothing more than a half-inch of steel separating their crews from the dark waves.
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Author : William B. Kirkland
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786257653
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)
Download or read book Destroyers At Normandy: Naval Gunfire Support At Omaha Beach [Illustrated Edition] written by William B. Kirkland and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes numerous maps and illustrations. This monograph provides first-hand accounts of Destroyer Squadron 18 during this critical battle upon which so much of the success of our campaign in Europe would depend. Their experience at Omaha Beach can be looked upon as typical of most U.S. warships engaged at Normandy. On the other hand, from the author’s research it appears evident that this destroyer squadron, with their British counterparts, may have had a more pivotal influence on the breakout from the beachhead and the success of the subsequent campaign than was heretofore realized. Its contributions certainly provide a basis for discussion among veterans and research by historians, as well as a solid, professional account of naval action in support of the Normandy landings.
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Total Pages : 894 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Library Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Issued also separately.
Author : Worrall Reed Carter
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Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil written by Worrall Reed Carter and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roland Wilbur Charles
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Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Troopships of World War II written by Roland Wilbur Charles and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book contains authentic photographs and salient facts covering 358 troopships used in World War II. In addition, other vessels of miscellaneous character, including Victory and Liberty type temporary conversions for returning troops, are listed in the appendices ..."--Pref.
Author : Jonathan D. Bratten
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book To the Last Man :. written by Jonathan D. Bratten and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Knefler Taussig
Publisher : Via Folios
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Queenstown Patrol, 1917 written by Joseph Knefler Taussig and published by Via Folios. This book was released on 1996 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Foreword-- "Published here is the diary that Taussig kept during his time in command of the first U.S. destroyers to arrive in the war zone in 1917. The entries, letters, and reports reveal U.S. and Allied naval personnel grappling with the issues of technological, tactical, and doctrinal innovation; the difficulties of the Navy's early experiences in combined command, control, communication, and coordination; the sometimes awkward matching of operational means with strategic ends; the troubles in mastering both shallow-water and open-ocean antisubmarine warfare; and even the distressing consequences of friendly fire. Most importantly, we find the earliest glimpses of American naval participation in modern coalition warfare."
Author : Institute for National Strategic Studies
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160897634
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (976 download)
Download or read book The Chinese Navy written by Institute for National Strategic Studies and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of the growing Chinese Navy - The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) - and its expanding capabilities, evolving roles and military implications for the USA. Divided into four thematic sections, this special collection of essays surveys and analyzes the most important aspects of China's navel modernization.
