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Author : Dan E. Bailey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book WW II Wrecks of the Kwajalein and Truk Lagoons written by Dan E. Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dan E. Bailey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780911615067
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (15 download)
Download or read book WW II Wrecks of the Truk Lagoon written by Dan E. Bailey and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rod Macdonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781849951319
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Dive Truk Lagoon written by Rod Macdonald and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Truk Lagoon is quite simply the greatest wreck diving location in the world. Scores of virtually intact large WWII wrecks filled with cargoes of tanks, trucks, artillery, beach mines, shells and aircraft rest in the crystal clear waters of the Lagoon--each a man-made reef teeming with life. Truk was the main forward anchorage for the Japanese Imperial Navy and merchant fleet during the early days of WWII. The lagoon had been fortified by the Japanese in great secrecy during the 1930s--the Allies knew little about it. In total secrecy Operation Hailstone was prepared: nine U.S. carriers holding more than 500 combat aircraft steamed towards Truk--supported by a screen of battleships, cruisers, destroyers and submarines. Before dawn on 17 February, Strike Groups of 12 Hellcat fighters swept in low towards Truk under Japanese radar and immediately began strafing Japanese airfields. Soon, hundreds of aircraft were involved in one of the largest aerial dogfights of WWII which was over within an hour. This is the amazing story of Truk Lagoon and the turning of the tide in the Pacific War.
Author : Klaus Lindemann
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 159752347X
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Hailstorm Over Truk Lagoon, Second Edition written by Klaus Lindemann and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Hailstorm Over Truk Lagoon' remains the authoritative reference book about the US Navy carrier raid of 17/18 February 1944 on the Japanese naval and supply base Truk, in the East Caroline Islands. This edition presented here adds later information and pictures to the book, and corrects errors. . . . The new discoveries and other changes, as well as new information made it necessary to issue a revised edition of 'Hailstorm over Truk Lagoon.' The text of this edition has been generally updated to 1990. New finds, observations or conditions seen at the popular wrecks during my diving visit in spring 1991 have been incorporated. All this is part of the ongoing research about Truk.Ó From the Foreword
Author : William H. Stewart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Ghost Fleet of the Truk Lagoon, Japanese Mandated Islands written by William H. Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dan E. Bailey
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ISBN 13 : 9780911615050
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (15 download)
Download or read book World War II written by Dan E. Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1992-06-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gregory F Michno
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1682470253
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (824 download)
Download or read book Death on the Hellships written by Gregory F Michno and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback, Death on the Hellships chronicles the true dimensions of the Allied POW experience at sea. It is a disturbing story; many believe the Bataan Death March even pales by comparison. Survivors describe their ordeal in the Japanese hellships as the absolute worst experience of their captivity. Crammed by the thousands into the holds of the ships, moved from island to island and put to work, they endured all the horrors of the prison camps magnified tenfold. Gregory Michno draws on American, British, Australian, and Dutch POW accounts as well as Japanese convoy histories, declassified radio intelligence reports, and a wealth of archival sources to present a detailed picture of the horror.
Author : Klaus P. Lindemann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789810029685
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (296 download)
Download or read book Hailstorm Over Truk Lagoon written by Klaus P. Lindemann and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Klaus P. Lindemann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Hailstorm Over Truk Lagoon written by Klaus P. Lindemann and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rod Macdonald
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1399007580
Total Pages : 653 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Task Force 58 written by Rod Macdonald and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new breed of American fast aircraft carriers could make thirty-three knots, and each carried almost 100 strike aircraft. Brought together as Task Force 58, also known as the Fast Carrier Task Force, this awesome armada at times comprised more than 100 ships carrying more than 100,000 men afloat. By 1945, more than 1,000-combat aircraft, fighters, dive- and torpedo-bombers could be launched in under an hour. The fast carriers were a revolution in naval warfare – it was a time when naval power moved away from the big guns of the battleship to air power projected at sea. Battleships were eventually subordinated to supporting and protecting the fast carriers, of which, at its peak, Task Force 58 had a total of seventeen. This book covers the birth of naval aviation, the appearance of the first modern carriers in the 1920s, through to the famous surprise six-carrier _Kido Butai_ Japanese raid against Pearl Harbor on 8 December 1941 and then the early US successes of 1942 at the Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway. The fast carriers allowed America, in late 1942 and early 1943, to finally move from bitter defence against the Japanese expansionist onslaught, to mounting her own offensive to retake the Pacific. Task Force 58 swept west and north from the Solomon Islands to the Gilbert and Marshall Islands, neutralising Truk in Micronesia, and Palau in the Caroline islands, before the vital Mariana Islands operations, the Battle of Saipan, the first battle of the Philippine Sea and the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot. The strikes by Task Force 58 took Allied forces across the Pacific, to the controversial Battle of Leyte Gulf and to Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Task Force 58 had opened the door to the Japanese home islands themselves – allowing US bombers to finally get close enough to launch the devastating nuclear bombing raids on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Task Force 58 participated in virtually all the US Navy’s major battles in the Pacific theatre during the last two years of the war. Having spent many years investigating naval shipwrecks across the Pacific, many the result of the devastating effectiveness of Task Force 58, diver and shipwreck author Rod Macdonald has created the most detailed account to date of the fast carrier strike force, the force that brought Japan to its knees and brought the Second World War to its crashing conclusion.
Author : Peter Stekel
Publisher : Wilderness Press
ISBN 13 : 9780899976662
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Final Flight written by Peter Stekel and published by Wilderness Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 2005, two mountaineers climbing above Mendel Glacier in the High Sierra finds the mummified remains of a man in a WW II uniform, entombed in the ice. The "Iceman" discovery creates a media storm which draws author Peter Stekel to investigate and stumble upon the case of a navigation training flight crew missing since 1942. Early attempts at recovery are thwarted due to empty graves, botched records, bad weather, bad luck, and bad timing. Then, in 2007, Stekel himself discovers a second body in the glacier. Through meticulous research, interviews, and his own mountaineering trips to the site, Stekel uncovers the identities of these four young men. Final Flight explores the story of the ill-fated flight and the misinformation surrounding it for over 60 years. The book is a gripping account that's part mystery, part history, and a personal journey to uncover the truth of the events that occurred on November 18, 1942. In the process, Stekel rewrites the young aviators' last days and takes us on their final flight.
Author : Worrall Reed Carter
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( 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 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rob Atherton
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (537 download)
Download or read book War Graves: written by Rob Atherton and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-06-27 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few people will have heard of Truk Lagoon let alone be able to find it on a map but for scuba divers, it is considered the best place in the world for wreck diving. During World War II, the modern-day Chuuk State (part of the Federated States of Micronesia) was a strategic Japanese stronghold in the Pacific. Unwilling to launch a land invasion, the United States attacked the Japanese shipping in Truk in February 1944, sinking dozens of ships in Operation Hailstone. After the war ended, these vessels remained untouched until Jacques Cousteau and his team visited in 1969 and began to uncover the numerous ship wrecks. Within a few years, a diving industry to this remote location was born. This is the story of how the Japanese gained control of Truk as they looked to expand their empire following the end of World War I. We explore the events in the build up to war in the Pacific to provide some context around the story of Truk Lagoon. The waters of Truk conceal dozens of wrecks. These are war graves but in addition, each of the wrecks also has a story of its own. 75 years on from Operation Hailstone, the world is a very different place and as a planet, we face ever growing conservation challenges. The wrecks of Truk Lagoon are no different as they face challenges of their own as they slowly crumble away.
Author : Simon Pridmore
Publisher : Simon Pridmore
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)
Download or read book Dive into Taiwan written by Simon Pridmore and published by Simon Pridmore. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taiwan is a Pacific island – actually several islands: a big one and some smaller satellites – surrounded by warm tropical seas. It is easily accessible, has excellent transportation and is a first-world society with out-going, friendly, laid-back people. Especially in the south and on several of the outlying islands, there is some very good scuba diving and also a network of dive centres and resorts with first-class professional staff and equipment. They provide services for a young generation of Taiwanese, who are driving development in the sport with considerable enthusiasm. Yet, when divers elsewhere in the world think about diving destinations, Taiwan is rarely even a blip on their radar screen. Very few people outside Taiwan have ever thought to enquire about the diving there, and very few people inside Taiwan have ever thought to tell anyone about it. Until now... In Dive into Taiwan, Simon Pridmore unveils the underwater secrets of these islands and guides you around expertly, making sure you travel easily, dine well and appreciate the unique culture and traditions of Taiwan as well as its marine treasures. This is the first English-language guide to diving the reefs and wrecks of hitherto unknown locations such as Penghu, Xiaoliuqiu, Hengchun, Lanyu (Orchid Island), Ludao (Green Island) and Taiwan’s Northeast Coast and places them firmly on the international diving map. Authoritative, well written and beautifully illustrated by Taiwanese photographer Kyo Liu’s superb underwater images, Dive into Taiwan opens the door to a new and exciting destination for travelling divers.
Author : Chris McNab
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781782745204
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (452 download)
Download or read book Abandoned Wrecks written by Chris McNab and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ships left high and dry after the retraction of the Aral Sea to Titanic at the bottom of the Atlantic, from a rusting railway graveyard in Bolivia to abandoned World War II cars in a Swedish forest, from aircraft frozen in time in Antarctica to streetcars sidelined in Brooklyn, New York, Abandoned Wrecks explores over 100 fascinating sites from all around the world. Aside from the peculiar beauty of rusting hulks on forgotten battlefields, anemone-covered battleships on the seabed and cars being consumed by forests, the images and text introduce us to unusual stories: how a car standing on its nose in the Nevada desert has inspired an artist into making a design feature from junked cars, a Canadian schooner that sank in 1885 and rests preserved to this day in a harbor in Lake Huron, and a space shuttle left gathering dust in a hangar. With 170 outstanding color photographs of cars, trains, ships, submarines, tanks, aircraft and even a space shuttle, Abandoned Wrecks is a brilliant pictorial work showcasing these battered time capsules and their stories of wars, natural disasters, changing fortunes, tastes and fashions.
Author : Chris McNab
Publisher : Abandoned
ISBN 13 : 9781838860875
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Abandoned World War II Aircraft, Tanks & Warships written by Chris McNab and published by Abandoned. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with more than 150 unique photographs, Abandoned World War II Weapons allows the history buff and general reader to explore the detritus of this great, destructive conflict in every part of the world. The scattered remains of a German bomber on Spitsbergen Island; Sherman tanks waterlogged off Omaha Beach; Japanese merchant ships sunk off the coast of New Guinea. More than 75 years after the end of World War II, the conflict's legacy can still be seen from the Arctic wastes to the Solomon Islands of the South Pacific. The six years of World War II produced a greater number and variety of weapons than any other conflict before or since. This included more than 5 million tanks, armored fighting vehicles, and other self-propelled weapons; 8 million artillery guns; almost a million military aircraft; more than 50,000 ships and submarines; as well as many millions of rifles, machine guns, and handguns. Today, in every corner of the world, the remnants of this epic conflict can still be seen. Long-buried partisan weapons caches in the Belorussian forest; sand-covered trucks in the Sahara desert; crashed American bombers and Japanese anti-aircraft guns in the jungles of New Guinea; tank wrecks on old military training grounds; thousands of unexploded bombs in the depths of the world's seas and oceans; or the hundreds of aircraft and 30 Japanese ships destroyed in Truk Lagoon, the biggest graveyard of ships in the world and today a popular dive site.
Author : Michael Norman
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374272603
Total Pages : 958 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Tears in the Darkness written by Michael Norman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-06-09 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new work about World War II exposes the myths of military heroism as shallow and inadequate. "Tears in the Darkness" makes clear, with great literary and human power, that war causes suffering for people on all sides.
