Naval
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-29 | Author:David Wragg
Notes 1 Cunningham, Admiral of the Fleet Lord, A Sailor’s Odyssey, Hutchinson, London, 1951. 2 Ibid. 3 Kilbracken, op. cit. 1. Intended to be the forerunner of the escort carrier, ...
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World War II
October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-04 | Author:Larry Colton [Colton, Larry]
Exhausted and cold, Chuck sat on the edge of his lower bunk in the barracks, waiting for another day to end. He was also waiting for the nightly poker game ...
( Category:
World War II
October 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-09 | Author:Michael J. Tougias
Bushy-browed WOCB newsman Ed Semprini had survived the grueling drive down snow-covered Route 28. The bad weather had not let up once during the twenty-one-mile trek from Hyannis to Chatham. ...
( Category:
State & Local
October 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 2004-10-08 | Author:Stephen Roskill
CHAPTER 11 The Indian Ocean and the Far East 1941–1943 Churchill’s pre-war blindness with regard to the Japanese threat to the vast British interests east of Suez, about which the ...
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Naval
October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-30 | Author:Robertson, Terence [Robertson, Terence]
That night Kretschmer sat at the corner table in the Club Chez Elle, which hummed with gaiety. He drank his wine thirstily and swayed to the rhythm of a nostalgic ...
( Category:
World War II
October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-17 | Author:C. Vann Woodward
IV THE BATTLE OFF CAPE ENGAÑO Vice Admiral Ozawa, commander of the Japanese Northern Force of carriers, entered the Battle for Leyte Gulf expecting, he said, the “complete destruction” of ...
( Category:
Naval
October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-30 | Author:Kurowski, Franz [Kurowski, Franz]
In response to an enquiry to the Torpedo Inspectorate given the highest priority, it was confirmed that U-65 and U-48 had been issued contact pistols with four-bladed propellers. The report ...
( Category:
Naval
October 9,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-02 | Author:Craig Cabell
Chapter 14 Continuing the Good Work ‘The radio sets hauled into France by the agents for the British Special Operations Executive during the Second World War were a nightmare by ...
( Category:
Great Britain
October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ian W. Toll [Toll, Ian W.]
TWO PARALLEL PACIFIC CAMPAIGNS, north and south of the equator, now had the imprimatur of the Allied high command. But Nimitz did not yet possess the sea or carrier air ...
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Japan
October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-31 | Author:David Wragg
SEIZURE! On 30 June, the Admiralty received a copy of a message telegraphed from the French Admiralty to Admiral Odend‘hal at Portsmouth, advising him that the Italians had permitted the ...
( Category:
Great Britain
October 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-28 | Author:Gary
Seydlitz is launched, 30 March 1912. Therefore, the most economical cruising speed would be 12kts giving a range of 5,807nm. These values correspond to the trials draught. Vibrations were low ...
( Category:
World War I
September 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-22 | Author:Peter Dornan
C H A P T E R E L E V E N Operation AVALANCHE The war was not going well for the Italians. On 25 July 1943, the Fascist ...
( Category:
World War II
September 15,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Morgan, Bruce Taylor
U136 and Heinrich Zimmermann For details on Zimmermann’s and U136’s earlier career, including this her first patrol, see HMS Arbutus (50). U136’s second patrol between March and May 1942 took ...
( Category:
World War II
September 15,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gerhard Koop & Klaus-Peter Schmolke
3. I did not keep the record of salvos and timings required by standing orders as I had to reappoint Aircraft NCO Kroll to another duty (removal of dented shell ...
( Category:
Ships
September 12,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-04-29 | Author:Brian Lavery
Another of Captain Marryat’s drawings ofa midshipman’s life, this time showing a press gang engaged in a lively fight in a tavern. Unlike the one of the midshipman’s berth, this ...
( Category:
Naval
September 11,2015 )
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