epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Smith, Douglas V. [Smith, Douglas V.]

TRANSITION The period through 1945 produced a particular type of carrier for both strategic and technological reasons. The strategic reason was that, through this period, the U.S. Navy was designed ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Joseph H. Alexander [Alexander, Joseph H.]

* The author is indebted to H. Arthur “Hal” Lamar, flag lieutenant to Nimitz, and Loren F. “Sonny” Paulus, the admiral’s bodyguard, for these personal insights. * The instructors at ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-19 | Author:John Geoghegan [Geoghegan, John]

* According to some accounts, it took almost twice as long to prep the third Seiran. † Robert Mikesh says seven minutes were required to launch each of the first ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:James D. Hornfischer

TASK GROUP 67.4 went to general quarters at 8 p.m. The sea rolled easily under a ten-knot southeasterly wind. The moon had set, leaving the squadron in the dark. The ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2000-06-06 | Author:Clay Blair

GERMAN NAVAL OPERATIONS In Berlin at the start of the third year of the war, Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, dominated all else. Hitler personally directed the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-20 | Author:David Sears

At this stage in his career, although still learning and still mastering the chopper’s quirky subtleties, Thorin was largely unfazed by the things that could go wrong—and so often did—in ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-25 | Author:Robert Leckie

February 24 was a Saturday. It began with the full weight of American firepower falling on the entrenched, unseen enemy. But the Marines of the 3rd Division had to attack ...

epub, pdf |it | 2012-04-05 | Author:Unknown

Document Outline Uaxact�n Ubac, Raoul Rodolphe Ubertini, Francesco Uden, Lucas van Udine Udine, Domenico Uecker, Gunther Uffelen, Lucas van Uffenbach, Philipp Ugo da Carpi Ugolino di Nerio Ugolino di Prete ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-14 | Author:Ian W. Toll [Toll, Ian W.]

THE NITTO MARU’S CONTACT REPORT was received aboard the Yamato shortly after breakfast. The little sampan had reported sighting not two but three American aircraft carriers, a detail that must ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-02 | Author:Robert Gandt [Gandt, Robert]

Something caught Mitsuru Yoshida’s eye as he stood on the bridge. Something red. One of Yamato’s screening destroyers on the port outer edge of the formation, Hamakaze, had just showed ...

epub |eng | 2013-10-28 | Author:Paine, Lincoln [Paine, Lincoln]

Christopher Columbus The exploratory activity on the Atlantic had attracted any number of ambitious mariners, one of whom, the Genoese-born Christopher Columbus, conceived a bold plan “that he would sail ...

epub |eng | 2012-12-05 | Author:David Cordingly [Cordingly, David]

The latter method was called “woolding,” after the word used to describe the binding of cords around a mast. It was a favorite pirate torture because it was fast and ...