Naval
epub |eng | 2015-12-24 | Author:Robert K. Massie [Massie, Robert K.]

CHAPTER 24 The Minefields The whole fourteen-mile length of the Straits from the entrance at Cape Helles up to the Narrows at Chanak was within range of different types of ...
( Category: England December 26,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-02-19 | Author:Stephen Budiansky [Budiansky, Stephen]

Blackett emphasized the need for scientists in this role to steer clear of “technical midwifery” so they could focus on current operational questions. Williams jumped right into the most basic ...
( Category: World War II December 23,2015 )
epub |ara | 2015-02-17 | Author:John Wukovits

Admiral Ugaki made certain of that. The commander had been placed in charge of the 6th Air Army for the third kikusui, scheduled for April 16. The optimistic admiral thought ...
( Category: Japan December 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-14 | Author:McLaren, Alfred

Aircraft Reconnaissance Mission Between Seadragon’s two Cold War missions, while I was at sea in the Northern Pacific with Seventh Fleet ASW units, I transferred to the aircraft carrier USS ...
( Category: Naval December 9,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-05-14 | Author:McLaren, Alfred [McLaren, Alfred]

Aircraft Reconnaissance Mission Between Seadragon’s two Cold War missions, while I was at sea in the Northern Pacific with Seventh Fleet ASW units, I transferred to the aircraft carrier USS ...
( Category: Naval December 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Jim Crossley

An idea of the work of paddle sweepers at this time can be given by quoting an account of an incident off Dunkirk in June 1917. Dunkirk was close to ...
( Category: Conventional December 3,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-10-01 | Author:Brian Kilmeade

CHAPTER 11 The Philadelphia Disaster After giving up the chase in pursuit of the cruiser, striking on the rocks was as unexpected to me as if it had happened in ...
( Category: Naval November 22,2015 )
epub, mobi |nld | 2012-02-05 | Author:Joseph F. Enright [Enright, Joseph F.]

7. Optimism At 0215 on Wednesday, November 29, 1944, the Imperial Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano steamed along the course of 275 degrees—almost directly west—eight hours plus into her maiden voyage. ...
( Category: Naval November 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-08-19 | Author:Jim Crossley

The total cost of these forty ships was thus a little less than the cost of two battleships. It would be difficult to argue that an extra dreadnaught or two ...
( Category: Naval October 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-29 | Author:Haarr, Geirr H.

Main reluctantly following Draug westwards. (Marinemuseet) The sulking crew of Main closely guarded on the afterdeck of Draug. (Marinemuseet) Next morning, three British destroyers appeared and one of them, Sikh, ...
( Category: World War II October 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2007-11-14 | Author:Mark Felton

When it came to sentencing, Nakagawa was only given eight years in Sugamo Prison in 1949. Perhaps reflecting a belief in Japan at the time that their military and naval ...
( Category: World War II October 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-16 | Author:Philip Kaplan

The combats went on at a relatively constant pace until September 15th, when everything changed again. To many this day is considered another Trafalgar, a day on a par with ...
( Category: Naval October 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2004-06-18 | Author:Theodore P. Savas

U-505 was running submerged on electric motors a little after midday (German summer time) on June 4 when a faint propeller wash was picked up on the hydrophones and passed ...
( Category: World War II October 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2005-10-12 | Author:Mark Felton

Gruppe Monsun Heads South – The First Wave On 9 June 1943 Dönitz ordered eleven U-boats to sail into the Indian Ocean, to be supported by two U-tankers. This group ...
( Category: Germany October 13,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Donald Macintyre

A vexing problem for the Allied high command was whether their burgeoning Atlantic operations would be more efficiently conducted if made a unified command. While wasteful duplication could obviously be ...
( Category: World War II October 13,2015 )