Author: United States. Congress. House. Merchant Marine and FisheriesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Submarine Menace
Author: United States. Congress. House. Merchant Marine and FisheriesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Air Power Versus U-Boats - Confronting Hitler’s Submarine Menace In The European Theater [Illustrated Edition]
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Author: A. Timothy WarnockPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1782898905
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Includes over 14 photos and maps More than fifty years after World War II, America’s major air power contribution to the war in Europe-in efforts such as Big Week, Regensburg, and Patton’s dash across Europe-live on in the memories of airmen and students of air power. Never before had air forces performed so many roles in so many different types of operations. Air power proved to be extremely flexible: wartime missions included maintaining air superiority, controlling the air space over the battlefield; strategic bombardment, destroying the enemy’s industrial and logistical network; air-ground support, attacking targets on the battlefield; and military airlift, delivering war materiel to distant bases. Perhaps one of the least known but significant roles of the Army Air Forces (AAF) was in antisubmarine warfare, particularly in the European-African-Middle Eastern theater. From the coasts of Greenland, Europe, and Africa to the mid-Atlantic, AAF aircraft hunted German U-boats that sank thousands of British and American transport ships early in the war. These missions supplemented the efforts of the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force Coastal Command, and the U.S. Navy, and helped those sea forces to wrest control of the sea lanes from German submarines.
Submarine Warfare of To-day
Author: Charles William Domville-FifePublisher:
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Category : Submarine warfare
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The British Submarine Warfare
Author: Charles W. Domville-FifePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3954274426
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
This fully illustrated book (the original was published 1919) describes the victory of the British fleet over the German submarines during WWI.
Submarine Warfare of Today
Author: Charles William Domville-FifePublisher: Kessinger Publishing
ISBN: 9781104444280
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
The Submarine Service, 1900–1918
Author: Nicholas LambertPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000341682
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
The year 2001 marks the centenary of the Royal Navy's submarine service. In the aftermath of the 2016 celebrations of the Battle of Jutland centenary, it is worth considering how the First World War at sea changed. This volume opens with an examination of the background to the Board of Admiralty's decision in 1900 to buy submarines, bringing to light documents that go a long way toward dispelling the myth that Britain's pre-1914 naval leaders were opposed to the development of the submarine as a major weapon. Indeed, the documents show that senior naval officers and influential civilians in Whitehall believed that the advent of the submarine would revolutionize naval warfare in a way that would bolster the Royal Navy's position as the world's predominant naval power. This edited selection of documents illustrates not only the Admiralty's thinking on the employment of the submarine between 1900 and 1918, it also charts the technical development of British submarines, and explains issues such as why the pioneer submariners came to regard themselves as an élite group within the Royal Navy - and were allowed to become the 'silent service'.
The Hidden Menace
Author: Maurice GriffithsPublisher:
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
U-boat, the Secret Menace
Author: David MasonPublisher: Pan
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Naval Investigation
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Naval AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 1786
Book Description
Hitler's War Beneath the Waves
Author: Michael FitzGeraldPublisher: Arcturus Publishing
ISBN: 183940387X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
At the beginning of World War II, the devastating impact of German submarines on both the Royal Navy and merchant shipping saw Britain on the brink of starvation and defeat. The enemy was formidable. U-boat crews saw themselves as an elite and they preferred to scuttle their vessels at the end of the war rather than surrender. They suffered the heaviest losses of any branch of the German services: out of 40,900 men, 28,000 were killed and 5,000 taken prisoner; by 1945, the average age was 19 and the survival rate was only three missions. This is the story of how the Allies redressed the balance of power, focusing in particular on the role of the wolfpacks of U-boats in the Atlantic, whose stealthy presence beneath the waves ensured that British ships diced with death every time they put to sea.