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U-Boat Emblems in World War II

Author : Georg Högel
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780764307249
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book U-Boat Emblems in World War II written by Georg Högel and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 1999 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georg Hogel, a former U-boat sailor who saw service in World War II, experienced the origin of these emblems of the U-boat service. In this book he keeps alive the memory of the legendary, sometimes very original and unforgotten emblems of German U-boats. The author has been able to collect numerous emblems, coats of arms and markings during long years of painstaking, detailed work, in memory of some 30,000 German U-boatmen, more than 80% of those who served on these boats, who were lost in the war. The brief chronicles and excerpts from first-person memoirs make the history of the German U-boats come alive in an impressive way, and documents the background of their existence. In the current edition, the newest source materials have been included, so that many hitherto unpublished emblems, coats of arms and markings are presented for the first time. AUTHOR:

Business in Great Waters

Author : John Terraine
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1848841353
Total Pages : 882 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Business in Great Waters written by John Terraine and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twice within 25 years Britain was threatened with starvation by the menace of the U-Boat. In this study of submarine warfare, the author explains why Winston Churchill wrote "the only thing that ever frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril". Until it had been overcome, the Anglo-American entry into Europe in 1944 would have been impossible. John Terraine concentrates on the combatants themselves, both German and Allied, but does not overlook the three main factors in the equation - the political, the military and the technological, as well as the intelligence, the weapons and the devices both sides employed in order to outwit each other. He also focuses on the fighting men on either side, seeing the action from "where it was at".

K Boat Catastrophe: Eight Ships and Five Collisions

Author : N.S. Nash
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1844159841
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book K Boat Catastrophe: Eight Ships and Five Collisions written by N.S. Nash and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2009-07-19 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 31 January 1918 nine K Class steam-powered submarines sailed with the Grand Fleet to Exercise in the North Sea. The ships left the Firth of Forth at a speed of 21 knots on a cold winter night with the flagship HMS Courageous leading the way. Following in her wake was HMS Ithuriel and the K Class submarines of the 13th Submarine Flotilla and then 5 nautical miles astern of them, four more capital warships. As they approached The Isle of May navigational confusion broke out, caused by the misinterpretation of ship's steaming lights and mayhem followed. During the next couple of hours five collisions occurred involving eight ships and resulting in the death of 105 officers and ratings. This fiasco and the resulting naval investigation and court marshal were shielded from the general public and kept in secret files until the full details were released in 1994. From this official report, the author now tells the full story of that dreadful night and the proceedings that followed. Background information on the evolution of the ill-fated and much hated K Class submarines is also included together with the investigation and court marshal proceedings of the events surrounding that tragic night.

The U-boat Wars, 1916-1945

Author : John Terraine
Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The U-boat Wars, 1916-1945 written by John Terraine and published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. This book was released on 1989 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive account of the development of submarine warfare during and between two world wars. Examines U-boat campaigns in World Wars I and II, particularly the Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1945.

Kriegsmarine U-boats 1939–45 (1)

Author : Gordon Williamson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780966148
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis Kriegsmarine U-boats 1939–45 (1) by : Gordon Williamson

Download or read book Kriegsmarine U-boats 1939–45 (1) written by Gordon Williamson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-20 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This, the first of two volumes on Germany's World War II U-boats, traces their development from the early U-boats of the Kaiser's Navy, the prohibition on Germany having U-boats following the Armistice in 1918 and the subsequent Treaty of Versailles, the secret development of U-boats using a 'cover-firm' in Holland, culminating in the formation of the 1st U-boat Flotilla in 1935 with the modern Type II. The operational history section includes examples from the Classes Type VIIA, Type VIIB, VIID, VIIE and VIIF before concentrating on the mainstay of the U-boat arm, the Type VIIC. Comparisons are also made with the standard allied submarines, their strengths, weaknesses and U-boat tactics.

U-Boat War

Author : Lothar Günther Buchheim
Publisher : Outlet
ISBN 13 : 9780517606711
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book U-Boat War written by Lothar Günther Buchheim and published by Outlet. This book was released on 1986-04-23 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles submarine warfare in the North Atlantic during the Second World War, and describes the battles above and below the surface

Air Force Combat Units of World War II

Author : Maurer Maurer
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428915850
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Air Force Combat Units of World War II written by Maurer Maurer and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1961 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

D-Day Ships

Author : Yves Buffetaut
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book D-Day Ships written by Yves Buffetaut and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare account of the Allied forces' naval involvement, this heavily illustrated book looks at the D-Day landings from the perspective of the development of amphibious operations throughout World War II. It explores strategic and tactical planning, the channel voyage, Mulberry Harbour, the great storm, and more.

Hellcats

Author : Peter Sasgen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451234855
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Hellcats written by Peter Sasgen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heart-stopping true tale of a submarine mission aimed at destroying Japan’s merchant marine lifeline and ending World War II. By 1945, the U.S. Navy's submarine force in the Pacific had sunk over a thousand enemy cargo ships and tankers supplying the food, weapons, and oil Japan needed to continue to fight. Yet this once mighty merchant fleet continued to thrive in the Sea of Japan, where, protected from American submarines by a seemingly impenetrable barrier of deadly minefields, they provided a tenuous lifeline for the Japanese. Senior American commanders believed that if these enemy ships were sunk, Japan would be forced to surrender. Here is the incredible story of Operation Barney, the daring plot to penetrate those minefields and decimate the enemy fleet. The brainchild of the dedicated sub commander Vice Admiral Charles Lockwood, the mission would hinge on a new experimental sonar system that would, with luck, guide American submarines safely past the mines and into the open sea. The nine submarines chosen, nicknamed Hellcats, were tasked with the impossible—the combined crews of 760 submariners all knew their chances of survival depended on an unproven technology and their own nerve. Based on original documents and the poignant personal letters of one doomed Hellcat commander, Sasgen crafts a classic naval tale of one of World War II's most dangerous missions.

Torpedo Junction

Author : Robert J. Casey
Publisher : Simon Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781931541589
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Torpedo Junction written by Robert J. Casey and published by Simon Publications. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diary of the famous war correspondent with the Pacific Fleet from Pearl Harbor to the battle of Midway during WW2.

U-boat Combat Missions

Author : Lawrence Paterson
Publisher : Chatham Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781861763204
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book U-boat Combat Missions written by Lawrence Paterson and published by Chatham Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawrence Paterson has pieced together the technical details of the roles of individual U-boat crew members with extensive first-hand reports, many drawn from previously unpublished oral histories. These experiences build up a picture of life undersea.

U-Boats at War in 100 Objects, 1939–1945

Author : Gordon Williamson
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1526759039
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book U-Boats at War in 100 Objects, 1939–1945 written by Gordon Williamson and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril,’ wrote Winston Churchill in his history of the Second World War. ‘I was even more anxious about this battle than I had been about the glorious air fight called the Battle of Britain.” In reality, the Kriegsmarine had been woefully unprepared for the war into which it was thrown. The Command-in-Chief of submarines, Karl Dönitz, himself a verteran U-boat captain from the First World War, felt that he could bring Britain to its knees with a fleet of 300 U-Boats. But when war broke out, he had just twenty-four available for operational use. Despite this, the U-Boat arm scored some incredible successes in the early part of the war, raising the status of the submarine commanders and crews to that of national heroes in the eyes of the German people. The ‘Grey Wolves’ had become super-stars. Small wonder then that the U-Boat war has fascinated students of military history ever since. This book, using a carefully selected range of both wartime images and colour images of surviving U-boat memorabilia from private collections, describes 100 iconic elements of the U-Boat service and its campaigns. The array of objects include important individuals and the major U-Boat types, through to the uniforms and insignias the men wore. The weapons, equipment and technology used are explored, as are the conditions in which the U-boat crews served, from cooking facilities and general hygiene down to the crude toilet facilities. Importantly, the enemy that they faced is also covered, examining the ship-borne and airborne anti-submarine weaponry utilised against the U-boats. The U-Boats began the war, though small in number, more than a match for the Allies and created carnage amongst merchant shipping as well as sinking several major warships. The pace of technological development, however, failed to match that of Allied anti-submarine warfare weaponry and the U-Bootwaffe was ultimately doomed to defeat but not before, at one point, coming close to bringing Britain to its knees.

Men of Poseidon

Author : Richard Wagner Graves
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615114156
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book Men of Poseidon written by Richard Wagner Graves and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The U-boat Century

Author : Jak P. Mallmann Showell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The U-boat Century written by Jak P. Mallmann Showell and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2006 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a sweltering day in August 1906 U-1, or Unterseeboot 1, meaning underwater boat, was lifted into Kiel's waters for trials; 100 hundred years later Kiel still witnesses the launching of U-boats, modern submarines with fuel cell propulsion systems, built for navies worldwide. In the years in between Germany fought two world wars, in which the U-boat almost defeated the Allies. --The U-boat was one of the most potent weapons of the 20th century, and here Mallmann Showell, perhaps the world's leading U-boat historian, explains how it was developed and designed and then deployed to wreak havoc in European waters and further afield in the Atlantic and the Far East. This is not a dry technical book but a work that looks behind the scenes at the men who built and fought in them. Weapons systems, operational areas, bases, builders and fleet organisation are covered, and as well as dealing with the world wars, the author brings the story up to date with the third, latest, generation of U-boats. The text is augmented by over 300 images, many never published before. --Publisher description.

The Grey Wolves of Eriboll

Author : David M. Hird
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grey Wolves of Eriboll written by David M. Hird and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The surrender of the German U-boat fleet at the end of World War II was perhaps the principal event in the war's endgame which signified to the British people that peace really had arrived. It is little known that the majority of the surrenders of U-boats on active west-European sea patrols in May 1945 were supervised in Loch Eriboll, an isolated sea loch on Scotland's far north-westernmost coast. The U-boats were part of Hitler's plan to starve the British Isles of food, raw materials and equipment vital for the prosecution of the war - a plan that failed. With an estimated 160 U-boats on active patrol at the end of the war, it was imperative that these boats were made aware of the capitulation of German armed forces, that they accepted the surrender arrangements and then proceeded, surfaced, to designated British ports. Loch Eriboll's attraction as the reception port was its isolation and its safe, deep-water anchorage - ideal for the arrival of armed U-boats that might still be intent on one last show of defiance. News of the momentous event was heavily censored - nothing appeared in the local press. Thirty-three U-boats, their officers and men surrendered between 10th and 22nd May 1945. The boats were arrested, boarded and disarmed; in some cases this vital exercise was completed by the simple expedient of lobbing ammunition, explosives and torpedo pistols overboard! Each U-boat has been positively identified and detailed information provided including contemporary photographs, boat or flotilla emblem, together with the coordinates of where each boat was eventually destroyed in the north Atlantic. However, not all were destroyed by the Allies, some were retained by the British, American, Russian or French navies as spoils of war but the vast majority were lost accidentally or scrapped with the passage of time. The Grey Wolves of Eriboll includes a wealth of historical insights including the German Surrender Document; detailed descriptions of the construction, service careers and circumstances of each surrendered U-boat; details of the frigates that supervised the surrenders; Operation Deadlight (a hasty plan to ensure the U-boats could not again be used aggressively) and contemporary newspaper reports. The pivotal role played by Loch Eriboll in ending the U-boat menace is little-known and lesser celebrated - this book rights that wrong. (Publisher)

U-boat Operations of the Second World War: Career Histories, U511-UIT25

Author : Kenneth G. Wynn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book U-boat Operations of the Second World War: Career Histories, U511-UIT25 written by Kenneth G. Wynn and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

U-Boats in the Bahamas (HC)

Author : Eric Wiberg
Publisher : ibooks
ISBN 13 : 1899694625
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book U-Boats in the Bahamas (HC) written by Eric Wiberg and published by ibooks. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Eric Wiberg's ability, to unearth obscure historical facts, keeps me in a constant state of surprise. I commend his relentless determination to verify every detail, with local sources in Nassau's historical community, for corroboration of his findings.”—Capt. Paul C. Aranha, author, THE ISLAND AIRMAN . . . AND HIS BAHAMA ISLANDS HOME. “Eric Wiberg has made a significant contribution to the bibliography of World War II history.” —J. Revell Carr, Santa Fe, N.M. This his book tells one more key part of the big story and is one more piece in the giant puzzle of the history of World War II. Its value for historians cannot be underestimated. Throughout the stories of the attacks by German and Italian submarines on Allied shipping in the water around the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos, several consistent themes emerge in Wiberg’s thorough accounts. Prime among them is the heroism of the merchant mariners who time and again put themselves in danger as they performed the critical task of moving supplies, military and civilian, which were vital to ultimate victory. We read of numerous instances of sailors having their ships shot out from under them and then continuously going back to sea and having additional ships torpedoed and sunk. We can also recognize what we know today as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), which was seldom recognized 75 years ago.