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Germany's Last Mission to Japan by Joseph Mark Scalia
epub |eng | 2016-04-26 | Author:Joseph Mark Scalia [Scalia Mark Joseph]

Commanding the naval contingent to Japan was forty-eight-year-old Gerhard Falcke, a naval construction engineer and electrical welding expert. Upon the conclusion of preliminary POW interrogations, the ONI assessed Falcke as ...
( Category: Japan April 30,2016 )
The Court-Martial of Paul Revere by Michael M. Greenburg
epub |eng | | Author:Michael M. Greenburg

Chapter 10 Outrage and Allegations GEORGE LITTLE could not believe his eyes. Hours earlier, he had brazenly scolded Commodore Dudley Saltonstall on the deck of the Warren, pressing him to ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding April 23,2016 )
The Business of Martyrdom by Jeffrey William Lewis
epub |eng | | Author:Jeffrey William Lewis

MANAGING MARTYRDOM Technology Practice and Suicide Bombing Ariel Merari’s empirical research on suicide bombing, spanning more than two decades, reveals the phenomenon to be an extremely complex process that cannot ...
( Category: Specific Topics April 22,2016 )
The Ohio and Malta: The Legendary Tanker That Refused to Die by Michael Pearson
epub |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:Michael Pearson

*Designed to raise a curtain of water ahead of low flying torpedo bombers to break up their attacks. Two-column formation intended but never actually achieved for passage through The Narrows. ...
( Category: State & Local April 21,2016 )
U-Boat War Patrol: The Hidden Photographic Diary of U 564 by Lawrence Paterson
epub |eng | 2016-02-28 | Author:Lawrence Paterson

‘22/7/42: CF78, 0810 hours. Mastheads in sight…’ Out of the dawn, two mast tips emerged (above). At first they were thought to herald mercantile targets, before being positively identified as ...
( Category: Naval April 15,2016 )
Grey Wolves by Philip Kaplan
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Philip Kaplan

THE HUNTER BECOMES THE HUNTED The North Atlantic shipping lanes were the most dangerous places to be for the Allied merchantmen of the convoys early in World War Two. Later, ...
( Category: World War II April 8,2016 )
Black May by Michael Gannon
epub |eng | 1998-04-07 | Author:Michael Gannon [Gannon, Michael]

The secret was out, and it appeared likely that the Germans would now neutralize the centimetric wavelength in the same way that Metox had neutralized the metric. But the Telefunken ...
( Category: World War II April 8,2016 )
Code Name Caesar by Preisler Jerome; Sewell Kenneth;
epub |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:Preisler, Jerome; Sewell, Kenneth; [Jerome Preisler and Kenneth Sewell]

The cable goes on to detail some of the items of freight, with deletions that its U. S. Navy translator explains were made because they “enumerated only cargo numbers and ...
( Category: World War II April 8,2016 )
Back from the Deep by Carl P. LaVO
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Carl P. LaVO [LaVO, Carl]

Going Home In mid-December, the Sculpin arrived off Truk, a foreboding group of fifty volcanic peaks bristling like ragged teeth raised above the horizon. Chappell moved in carefully, skirting dangerous ...
( Category: World War II April 8,2016 )
The Tragic Fate of the U.S.S. Indianapolis by Raymond B. Lech
epub, mobi |eng | 1982-03-22 | Author:Raymond B. Lech

All the other ships of the scouting flotilla were performing the same revolting task as Helm. Initially, some of the captains brought the bodies on board in order to offer ...
( Category: World War II March 23,2016 )
It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy by Abrashoff Michael
azw3, epub |eng | 2007-10-14 | Author:Abrashoff, Michael [Abrashoff, Michael]

CHAPTER EIGHT TAKE CALCULATED RISKS THE U.S. NAVY IS NO MORE FOND OF PEOPLE WHO GO out on a limb than is any other bureaucracy. In fact, taking a risk ...
( Category: Leadership March 4,2016 )
Naval Firepower: Battleship Guns and Gunnery in the Dreadnought Era by Friedman Norman
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2013-08-19 | Author:Friedman, Norman [Friedman, Norman]

In 1942 drastic modifications were ordered to clear air arcs in existing cruisers. For the Salt Lake City class that meant greatly reducing top-hamper, in the form of the multi-level ...
( Category: Naval March 2,2016 )
Three (Detective Alec Ramsay Series Book 7) by Conrad Jones
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-11-20 | Author:Conrad Jones

CHAPTER 27 Antonia Barrat groaned internally as they drove through the gates of Canning Place. It was a daunting thought that once they had her inside that soulless building she ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding February 15,2016 )
Wilful Murder by Diana Preston
epub |eng | 2011-01-24 | Author:Diana Preston [Preston, Diana]

17 - WAVE UPON WAVE As the ship’s list increased, so did the despair of those still trapped on board. Fireman O’Connell, running along the deck, saw two women crying ...
( Category: World War I January 31,2016 )
Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the Winning of the Great War at Sea by Robert K. Massie
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 )

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