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Author | : Melanie Wiggins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995-03 |
Genre | : Galveston (Tex.) |
ISBN | : 9780890966488 |
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At the beginning of America's involvement in World War II, Galveston Island was a recreation center for servicemen. Every evening throngs of soldiers, sailors, and Marines strolled along the seawall, basking in the warm sun and soft Gulf breezes. It was paradise on earth. Small wonder that German U-boat commanders caught Americans totally unprepared for a Gulf attack. Between 1942 and 1943, twenty-four German submarines entered the Gulf of Mexico and attacked American and Allied ships, sinking fifty-six merchant ships and damaging fourteen more. Although responses were initially chaotic, Americans soon established a defense system that could cope with the threat.
Author | : Melanie Wiggins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Between 1942 and 1943, 24 German submarines entered the Gulf of Mexico and attached American ships. American response was chaotic until organized.
Author | : Homer H Hickam |
Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 1996-05-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1612515789 |
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In 1942 German U-boats turned the shipping lanes off Cape Hatteras into a sea of death. Cruising up and down the U.S. eastern seaboard, they sank 259 ships, littering the waters with cargo and bodies. As astonished civilians witnessed explosions from American beaches, fighting men dubbed the area "Torpedo Junction." And while the U.S. Navy failed to react, a handful of Coast Guard sailors scrambled to the front lines. Outgunned and out-maneuvered, they heroically battled the deadliest fleet of submarines ever launched. Never was Germany closer to winning the war. In a moving ship-by-ship account of terror and rescue at sea, Homer Hickam chronicles a little-known saga of courage, ingenuity, and triumph in the early years of World War II. From nerve-racking sea duels to the dramatic ordeals of sailors and victims on both sides of the battle, Hickam dramatically captures a war we had to win--because this one hit terrifyingly close to home.
Author | : Robert Fulton |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 2020-08-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3752402326 |
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Reproduction of the original: Torpedo War and Submarine Explosions by Robert Fulton
Author | : Charles William Sleeman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Naval art and science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Maxwell Hawkins |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2018-11-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0359231314 |
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Torpedoes Away! details US Navy submarine operations during the first 18 months of World War Two. Author Maxwell Hawkins breathlessly covers the tense, dangerous missions of submarines USS Trout, Sea Raven, Pollack, Skipjack, Cuttlefish, and others. Between these first-hand reports stitched-together from interviews with crewmen, Hawkins describes the mechanical workings of submarines, as well as the history of submersibles beginning in the 17th Century. He spent over a year sifting through the archives of the Navy Department and conducted extensive interviews with many veteran submariners about their experiences in the Pacific during World War Two. The result is a classic study of underwater warfare, a must read for military historians and World War 2 buffs.
Author | : Richard Hugh Stotherd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1872 |
Genre | : Submarine mines |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Charles William Sleeman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Torpedoes |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Roger Branfill-Cook |
Publisher | : Seaforth Publishing |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2014-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1848322151 |
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The torpedo was the greatest single game-changer in the history of naval warfare. For the first time it allowed any small, cheap torpedo-firing vessel Ð and by extension a small, minor navy Ð to threaten the largest and most powerful warships afloat. The
Author | : Gabriel J. Rains |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786485450 |
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Hoping to deter the Union navy from aggressive action on southern waterways during the Civil War, the Confederacy led the way in developing "torpedoes," a term that in the nineteenth century referred to contact mines floating on or just below the water's service. With this book, two little-known but important manuscripts related to these valuable weapons become available for the first time. General Gabriel J. Rains, director of the Confederate Torpedo Bureau, penned his Torpedo Book as a manual for the fabrication and use of land mines and offensive and defensive water mines. With 21 scale drawings, Notes Explaining Rebel Torpedoes and Ordnance by Captain Peter S. Michie documents from the Federal perspective the construction and use of these "infernal machines." A detailed accounting, by the editor, of the vessels sunk or damaged by Confederate torpedoes and numerous photographs of existing specimens from museums and private collections complete this significant compilation.