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Download or read book Torpedo Leader written by Patrick Gibbs and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2008-08-21 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A WWII wing commander’s “adrenaline-charged account of torpedo attacks a few feet above the sea” (The Daily Telegraph). In this vivid and very personal story, written during World War II at the height of action, Patrick Gibbs expresses the frustrations, triumphs, and disasters he experienced in his roles as both a staff officer in Cairo and a Beaufort flight commander on the anti-shipping operations from Malta in 1942. With photographs and maps included, this is an exciting inside look at the world of military aviation and one man’s view of the war.
Download or read book Torpedo Leader written by Patrick Gibbs and published by Reminiscence Large Print. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A squadron's missing pilots were never seen as a lengthening funeral column, a continual reminder of danger and bad luck, but as a band of friendly ghosts who stood on the tarmac as aircraft took off, smiling encouragement. They were remembered as living, flying and fighting; never thought of as dead." Written during the war without benefit of hindsight, this is a remarkable and valuable account. A very personal story, its lucid, exciting and readable narrative describes firstly Patrick Gibbs' frustrations as a Staff Officer in Cairo, then his triumphs and disasters as a Beaufort Flight Commander on the anti-shipping operations from Malta in 1942, during which his contribution was immense, having realised that targeting enemy shipping was the key to victory.
Book Synopsis Torpedo Squadron Four - A Cockpit View of World War II by : Gerald W. Thomas
Download or read book Torpedo Squadron Four - A Cockpit View of World War II written by Gerald W. Thomas and published by Doc45 Publications. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas, in the only combat account of World War II Torpedo Bomber pilot ever published, relates his 25 months of service with Torpedo Squadron 4 (VT-4) on the USS RANGER, USS BUNKER HILL, and USS ESSEX. Thomas served in both the Atlantic and Pacific Theaters, and in some of the most important World War II battles. While on the RANGER, he participated in OPERATION LEADER, the most significant attack on Northern Europe by a US carrier during the war. During LEADER, while attacking a freight barge carrying 40 tons of ammunition, Thomas' plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire. Surprisingly, in spite of the considerable engine damage, the plane made it back to the RANGER, where Thomas crash-landed. That landing was his 13th official carrier landing. In the Pacific, Thomas participated in the numerous actions against Japanese targets in the Philippines, including strikes on Ormoc Bay, Cavite, Manilla, Santa Cruz, San Fernando, Lingayen, Mindoro, Clark Field and Aparri. Following these actions, Thomas' squadron made strikes on Formosa, French Indo-China, Saigon, Pescadores, Hainan, Amami O Shima, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and Japan. The attack on Japan was the first attack on Japan from an aircraft carrier since the "Doolittle Raid." While on the ESSEX, just after Thomas had returned from a strike on Santa Cruz, the ship was hit by a Kamikaze piloted by Yoshinori Yamaguchi, Yoshino Special Attack Corps. Yamaguchi was flying a Yokosuba D4Y3 dive bomber. The Kamikaze attack killed 16 crewman and wounded 44. Returning from a strike on Hainan, off the Chinese coast, Thomas' plane ran out of fuel. After a harrowing water landing, Thomas and squadron photographer Montague succeeded in inflating and launching one rubber boat and his crewman Gress another. After a long day in pre-Typhoon weather with 40 foot swells, the three were rescued by the USS SULLIVANS. In recounting the events in this book, Thomas draws upon his daily journal, his letters home, and extensive interviews and research conducted over 40 years with fellow pilots and crewman. The book cites 20 interviews and 5 combat journals, and contains 209 photos documenting the ships, planes, men, and combat actions of Torpedo Squadron 4. Many of the photographs were collected by Thomas during the war and include gun photo shots, recon photos, and, remarkably, a picture of the tail of Thomas' Torpedo plane as it sinks in the China Sea following his water crash landing.
Book Synopsis The Gun, Ram, and Torpedo by : Sir Gerard Henry Uchtred Noel
Download or read book The Gun, Ram, and Torpedo written by Sir Gerard Henry Uchtred Noel and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Information Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis General Information Series by : United States. Office of Naval Intelligence
Download or read book General Information Series written by United States. Office of Naval Intelligence and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Trident Deception by : Rick Campbell
Download or read book The Trident Deception written by Rick Campbell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern-day Hunt for Red October—an armed nuclear submarine is taken over and must be hunted down before its weapons are launched
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 1916 with total page 2302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Clash of The Carriers by : Barrett Tillman
Download or read book Clash of The Carriers written by Barrett Tillman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-11-07 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the national bestselling coauthor of Dragon's Jaw, here is the incredible true story of the most spectacular aircraft carrier battle in history, World War II’s Great Marianas Turkey Shoot. “Superb... the greatest naval air battle of all time finally receives the meticulous and comprehensive treatment it deserves.”—Richard Frank, author of Tower of Skulls In June, 1944, American and Japanese carrier fleets made their way toward one another in the Philippine Sea. Their common objective: the strategically vital Marianas Islands. During two days of brutal combat, the American and Japanese carriers dueled, launching wave after wave of fighters and bombers against one another. By day and night, hundreds of planes filled the skies. When it was over, the men of the American Fifth Fleet had claimed more than four hundred aerial combat victories, and three Japanese carriers lay on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Here is the true account of those great and terrible days—by those who were there, in the thick of the Battle of the Philippine Sea. Drawing upon numerous interviews with American and Japanese veterans as well as official sources, Clash of the Carriers is an unforgettable testimonial to the bravery of those who fought and those who died in a battle that will never be forgotten. “In his inimitable style, naval aviation’s most prolific historian comes through with a much-needed, comprehensive documentary on the greatest aircraft carrier battle of all time.”—Cdr. Alexander Vraciu, USN (Ret) Fighting Squadron 16, 1944
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Book Synopsis Zero, the Story of Japan's Air War in the Pacific - As Seen by the Enemy by : Martin Caidin
Download or read book Zero, the Story of Japan's Air War in the Pacific - As Seen by the Enemy written by Martin Caidin and published by ibooks. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the thrilling saga of war in the air in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II told from the Japanese point of view. It is the story of the men who created, led, and fought in the deadly Zero fighter plane. In their own words, Jiro Horikoshi (who designed the Zero), Masatake Okumiya (leader of many Zero squadrons), and Saburo Sakai (Japan's leading surviving fighter ace) as well as many other men, tell the inside story of developing the Zero and Japan's air force. They tell what it felt like to bomb American ships and to shoot down American airplanes -- and then of their shock when the myth of invincibility was shattered by the new Lightning, Hellcat, and Corsair fighters. They tell of the fight against the growing strength of a remorseless American enemy; and how, in desperation the Japanese High Command ordered the creation of deadly suicide squadrons, the Kamikaze. And finally they reveal their reaction to the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Book Synopsis WORLD WAR II SEA WAR: FRANCE FALLS, BRITAIN STANDS ALONE: Day-to-Day Naval Actions from April 1940 through September 1940 by : Donald A. Bertke
Download or read book WORLD WAR II SEA WAR: FRANCE FALLS, BRITAIN STANDS ALONE: Day-to-Day Naval Actions from April 1940 through September 1940 written by Donald A. Bertke and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-07-31 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Day-to-Day Naval Actions April 1940 through September 1940
Book Synopsis Germany's High Seas Fleet in the World War by : Reinhard Scheer
Download or read book Germany's High Seas Fleet in the World War written by Reinhard Scheer and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Germany's High Seas Fleet in the World War is a book by Reinhard Scheer, Admiral in the Imperial German Navy, which deals with the campaigns of the famous German Fleet during the First World War. The High Seas Fleet, or Hochseeflotte, was the battle fleet of the German Imperial Navy and saw action during the Great War. In the first part of the book, Scheer deals with the first two years of the War, from the outbreak to the Battle of Jutland (Skagerrak). The second part covers the period from the Battle of the Jutland to the unrestricted U-boat warfare. It describes the Battle of Jutland and its aftermaths leading to the U-boat Campaign. The third and final part of the book deals with the U-boat Campaign, a naval campaign fought by German U-boats against the trade routes of the Allies.
Book Synopsis The Battle of Jutland by : John Brooks
Download or read book The Battle of Jutland written by John Brooks and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a major new account of the Battle of Jutland, the key naval battle of the First World War in which the British Grand Fleet engaged the German High Seas Fleet off the coast of Denmark in 1916. Beginning with the building of the two fleets, John Brooks reveals the key technologies employed, from ammunition, gunnery and fire control, to signalling and torpedoes, as well as the opposing commanders' tactical expectations and battle orders. In describing Jutland's five major phases, he offers important new interpretations of the battle itself and how the outcome was influenced by technology, as well as the tactics and leadership of the principal commanders, with the reliability of their own accounts of the fighting reassessed. The book draws on contemporary sources which have rarely been cited in previous accounts, including the despatches of both the British and German formations, along with official records, letters and memoirs.
Book Synopsis Brassey's Naval Annual by : Earl Thomas Allnutt Brassey
Download or read book Brassey's Naval Annual written by Earl Thomas Allnutt Brassey and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Germany's High Sea Fleet in the World War by : Reinhard Scheer
Download or read book Germany's High Sea Fleet in the World War written by Reinhard Scheer and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book All Hands written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
