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Download or read book Subchaser written by Edward P Stafford and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a wartime Navy of giant carriers and battleships, tiny wooden subchasers did not command much attention. Yet these 110-foot warships, manned mostly by inexperienced reservists, performed vital chores for the fleet everywhere there was action in World War II. They led landing craft right up to the assault beaches, protected them from fire, fought off air attacks, swept for mines, laid down smoke screens, and patrolled the sea for killer submarines. One such doughty little ship, subchaser 692, is the subject of this book. Told by 692's commanding officer Ed Stafford, then a twenty-four-year-old lieutenant (jg) on his first warship, the story follows the thirty-man crew as they scrapped their way through the war, including action during the July 1943 invasion of Sicily. Filled with humor, tension, poignancy, and moments of high drama, this volume leaves today's readers with a vivid image of life on a very small ship in a very big war.
Book Synopsis Splinter Fleet by : Theodore R Treadwell
Download or read book Splinter Fleet written by Theodore R Treadwell and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hastily built at the onset of World War II to stop German U-boats from taking their toll on Allied shipping, the 110-foot wooden subchasers were the smallest commissioned warships in the U.S. Navy, yet they saw as much action as ships ten times their size. In every theater of war these “expendable” workhorses of the fleet escorted countless convoys of slow-moving ships through submarine-infested waters, conducted endless mind-numbing antisubmarine patrols, and were used in hundreds of amphibious operations. Some subchasers worked as gunboats to search for and destroy enemy barges. Others rescued downed airmen and retrieved drowning soldiers under heavy enemy fire. During the German occupation of Norway, three American-built subchasers and their Norwegian crews came to be known as “The Shetlands Bus” for their clandestine work as ferries—the only link between Norway and the free world. This book, written by the commander of one of the subchasers, defines their place in naval history and gives readers a taste of life on board the wooden warships. Ringing with authenticity, it describes the cramped quarters and unforgiving seas as well as the tenacious courage and close bonds formed by the men as they sought out the enemy and confronted nature. Long overshadowed by the larger, faster warships and more glamorous PT boats of World War II, subchasers have been mostly forgotten. This work restores the plucky little ships to their hard-earned status as significant members of the fleet.
Book Synopsis Awarding of Medals in the Naval Service by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Naval Affairs
Download or read book Awarding of Medals in the Naval Service written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Naval Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Awarding of Medals in the Naval Service, Hearing Before a Subcommittee ..., on S.Res. 285 by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Naval Affairs
Download or read book Awarding of Medals in the Naval Service, Hearing Before a Subcommittee ..., on S.Res. 285 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Naval Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sub Chaser by : Edward M. Brittingham
Download or read book Sub Chaser written by Edward M. Brittingham and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by : United States Naval Institute
Download or read book Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute written by United States Naval Institute and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis United States Naval Institute Proceedings by : United States Naval Institute
Download or read book United States Naval Institute Proceedings written by United States Naval Institute and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 2114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis U.S. Small Combatants, Including PT-boats, Subchasers, and the Brown-water Navy by : Norman Friedman
Download or read book U.S. Small Combatants, Including PT-boats, Subchasers, and the Brown-water Navy written by Norman Friedman and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the evolution of the destroyer from 1906 to the present and examines the design and construction of the various models of American destroyers.
Book Synopsis World War II Wrecks of the Philippines by : TOM Bennett
Download or read book World War II Wrecks of the Philippines written by TOM Bennett and published by TOM Bennett . This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pacific War between 1941-1945 sunk 800 Japanese and 200 American ships in Philippine waters. This book details in chronological order these wrecks, With thumbnail pictures and locations if known. The book has an Alphabetical Index of Ships Names and Dates of Loss, including 800 Japanese ships and over 150 American ships, A Historical database for historians, divers and Pacific War buffs. Dive details cover more than 30 of these shipwrecks.
Book Synopsis Subchaser in the South Pacific by : J. Henry Doscher
Download or read book Subchaser in the South Pacific written by J. Henry Doscher and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the story of World War IIs smallest navy warship and its contributions during some of the conflicts most dangerous missions, from convoy escorts and deployments to the capture of Guadalcanal and the rescues of coast watchers from islands behind Japanese lines.
Book Synopsis Stalin's Ocean-going Fleet: Soviet by : Jurgen Rohwer
Download or read book Stalin's Ocean-going Fleet: Soviet written by Jurgen Rohwer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, two senior naval historians analyze the discussions held in leading Soviet political, military, and naval circles concerning naval strategy and the decisions taken for warship-building programmes. They describe the reconstitution of the fleet under difficult conditions from the end of the Civil War up to the mid-1920s, leading to a change from classical naval strategy to a Jeune ecole model in the first two Five-Year Plans, including efforts to obtain foreign assistance in the design of warships and submarines. Their aim is to explain the reasons for the sudden change in 1935 to begin building a big ocean-going fleet. After a period of co-operation with Germany from 1939-41, the plans came to a halt when Hitler attacked the Soviet Union in 1941. Finally, this work covers the reopening of the naval planning processes in 1944 and 1945 and the discussions of the naval leadership with Stalin, the party and government officials about the direction of the new building programmes as the Cold War began.
Book Synopsis Stalin's Ocean-going Fleet by : Mikhail Monakov
Download or read book Stalin's Ocean-going Fleet written by Mikhail Monakov and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the development of strategic concepts in Stalin's Navy, in the context of his foreign/defence policy, using original archival documents translated from the Russian.
Book Synopsis 110-foot U.S. Submarine Chaser by : United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Engineering
Download or read book 110-foot U.S. Submarine Chaser written by United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Engineering and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Early Pacific Raids 1942 by : Brian Lane Herder
Download or read book Early Pacific Raids 1942 written by Brian Lane Herder and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-22 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating exploration of how between February 1 and March 10, 1942, three small US task forces launched several unexpected raids across the Japanese defensive perimeter in the Central and South Pacific. After the devastating Japanese blows of December 1941, the Allies found themselves reeling with defeat everywhere in the Pacific. Although stripped of his battleships and outnumbered 10:3 in carriers, the US Navy commander-in-chief Admiral Ernest J. King decided to hit back at Japan's rapidly expanding Pacific empire immediately, in an effort to keep the Japanese off-balance. On February 1, 1942, Vice Admiral Bill Halsey led the US Pacific Fleet carriers on their first raid, using high-speed hit-and-run tactics to strike at the Japanese, at a time when most of the Japanese carrier fleet was in the Indian Ocean. Halsey's aggressive commitment inspired its American participants to invent the mythical “Haul Ass With Halsey” club. The last of the 1942 US carrier raids in March 1942 would form a defining moment in the Pacific War, prior to a new phase of high-seas battles between the opposing fleets. This superbly illustrated book documents for the first time in a single volume this little-known but important World War II naval campaign. The fabulous illustrations, including maps and colour artworks, bring to life the US air and naval raids on the Japanese bases in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands, Rabaul, Wake Island, Marcus Island, and Lae and Salamaua in northern New Guinea.
Book Synopsis Department of Defense Appropriations for 1969 by : United States. Congress. House Appropriations
Download or read book Department of Defense Appropriations for 1969 written by United States. Congress. House Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Secretary of defense, Chairman, Joint chiefs of staff, Overall financial statements, Service secretaries and chiefs of staff, [Wednesday, February 14, 1968 by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Download or read book Secretary of defense, Chairman, Joint chiefs of staff, Overall financial statements, Service secretaries and chiefs of staff, [Wednesday, February 14, 1968 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
