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• Contents List of Maps Acknowledgments
• 1. Sink Ten Ships and We Win the War!
• 2. Initial Japanese Strategic Choices
• 3. Pearl Harbor
• 4. Yamamoto Defies Mahan
• 5. Guadalcanal
• 6. Central versus South Pacific
• 7. Two Prongs Divide the Fleet
• 8. Decisive Combat in the Marianas
• 9. From Honolulu's Conference Table to Leyte's Mud
• 10. The Naval Campaign for the Philippines
• 11. Mahan and the Submariners
• 12. Dulling the Mighty Blade
• 13. B-San Notes Bibliography Index.
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Alfred Thayer Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power upon History (1660-1783) was one of the most influential books on military strategy in the first half of the 20th century. A core text in the naval war colleges of the United States, Britain, and Japan, Mahan's book shaped doctrine for the conduct of war at sea. Adams uses Mahan's ideas to discuss the great Pacific sea battles of World War II and to consider how well they withstood the test of actual combat. Reexamining the conduct of war in the Pacific from a single analytic viewpoint leads to some surprising conclusions about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Doolittle Raid, the Battle of the Coral Sea, the recapture of the Philippines, and the submarine war. Naval historians and armchair strategists alike will find much food for thought in these engrossing pages.
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• Contents List of Maps Acknowledgments
• 1. Sink Ten Ships and We Win the War!
• 2. Initial Japanese Strategic Choices
• 3. Pearl Harbor
• 4. Yamamoto Defies Mahan
• 5. Guadalcanal
• 6. Central versus South Pacific
• 7. Two Prongs Divide the Fleet
• 8. Decisive Combat in the Marianas
• 9. From Honolulu's Conference Table to Leyte's Mud
• 10. The Naval Campaign for the Philippines
• 11. Mahan and the Submariners
• 12. Dulling the Mighty Blade
• 13. B-San Notes Bibliography Index.
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Alfred Thayer Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power upon History (1660-1783) was one of the most influential books on military strategy in the first half of the 20th century. A core text in the naval war colleges of the United States, Britain, and Japan, Mahan's book shaped doctrine for the conduct of war at sea. Adams uses Mahan's ideas to discuss the great Pacific sea battles of World War II and to consider how well they withstood the test of actual combat. Reexamining the conduct of war in the Pacific from a single analytic viewpoint leads to some surprising conclusions about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Doolittle Raid, the Battle of the Coral Sea, the recapture of the Philippines, and the submarine war. Naval historians and armchair strategists alike will find much food for thought in these engrossing pages.
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• The Beginning
• Naval Air Combat in the First World War
• Manipulation and Muddle
• Recovery, 1930-1940
• The Operational Environment in the Second World War
• Types of Naval Aircraft and Combat Operations
• Penguinisms
• A Characteristic Penguin
• The Penguin Background
• Development of Carrier Operations
• Palembang : Meridian 1 and 2
• Operations Iceberg 1 and 2
• Assault on the Mainland of Japan

• The ship
• The ship's company
• The Dungaree Navy
• The Hawaiian detachment
• Condition II-underway
• December 7, 1941
• The South Pacific
• The Aleutians
• The Central Pacific and the Typhoon of December 1944
• The uniform
• Liberty
• The Farragut finishing school
• Ship histories.

The World War II-era Farragut class destroyers were a unique collection of eight U.S. Navy ships. The first destroyers to be equipped with five-inch, 38 caliber dual-purpose guns and a fully automated fire control system, they presented unique challenges and experiences for the enlisted men who served aboard them. Fittingly, their sailors were a proud and cocky group, as they served on the smallest, roughest riding, and fastest men-of-war, ships with more firepower for their size than any other class of ship in the U.S. Navy.This book describes the life of the enlisted man aboard a Farragut class destroyer during the pre-war years when the ships were assigned to the Hawaiian Detachment; the war preparation period in 1941; and, finally, the wartime years. First-person narrations from the sailors collected from interviews and correspondence with the few remaining Farragut class destroyer sailors are the primary feature of this book. With the exception of narratives of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the book focuses not on combat but on the day-to-day recollections of sailors who lived and worked on some of the most distinguished ships ever built by the U.S. Navy. The book also briefly describes the evolution of the destroyer and the Farragut class destroyers, five of which survived the war.
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• v. 1. The battleships
• v. 2. The U-boat.

• Bd. 1. Schlachtschiffe, Panzerschiffe, Schwere Kreuzer, Leichte Kreuzer
• Bd. 2. Zerstörer, Torpedoboote, kleine Kampfeinheiten, Hilfschiffe, Küstenartillerie
• Bd. 3. Die Ubootwaffe, Marine-Kleinkampfverbände, Seefliegerkräfte, Häfen un Bauwerften, die Angehörigen der Kriegsmarine mit den höchsten Tapferkeitsauszeichnungen, Versenkungserfolge gegen Kriegsschiffe, Uniformen, Dienstgrad- und Laufbahnabzeichen
• Bd. 4. Die Verluste der deutschen Überwasserseestreitkräfte
• Bd. 5. Schlachtschiffe, Panzerschiffe, Kreuzer, Entstehung, Einsatz und Ende der Dickschiffe
• Bd. 6. Vor 50 Jahren, Schlachtschiff Bismarck
• Bd. 7. Die Entwicklungsgeschichte der Zerstörer und Torpedoboote.

The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as the as fitted' general arrangements, these drawings represented the exact appearance and fitting of the ship as it entered service. Intended to provide a permanent reference for the Admiralty and the dockyards, these highly detailed plans were drawn with exquisite skill in multi-coloured inks and washes that represent the acme of the draughtsman's art. Today they form part of the incomparable collection of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, which is using the latest scanning technology to make digital copies of the highest quality. This book is one of a series based entirely on these draughts which depict famous warships in an unprecedented degree of detail - complete sets in full colour, with many close-ups and enlargements that make every aspect clear and comprehensible. Extensive captions point the reader to important features to be found in the plans, and an introduction covers the background to the design. This volume is devoted to the sloops of the Black Swan class and its improved derivatives, widely regarded as the Rolls-Royce' of Second World War convoy escorts. Heavily armed and superbly equipped for their role, they were among the most effective anti-submarine ships of the battle in the Atlantic. The design was gradually improved and this book uses plans of four selected ships to chart that development. These comprise: Black Swan as built; Flamingo as modified later; Starling, the single most successful U-boat hunter of the war, as in 1943; and Amethyst, as refitted after her clash with Chinese communists on the Yangtze in 1949.
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The ShipCraft series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class, highlighting differences between sister-ships and changes in their appearance over their careers. This includes paint schemes and camouflage, featuring colour profiles and highly detailed line drawings and scale plans. The modelling section reviews the strengths and weaknesses of available kits, lists commercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the ships, and provides hints on modifying and improving the basic kit. This is followed by an extensive photographic gallery of selected high-quality models in a variety of scales, and the book concludes with a section on research references books, monographs, large-scale plans and relevant websites. This volume covers the large and powerful German destroyers of the Second World War era. Always popular as modelling subjects, interest in them has been further increased recently by the release of a number of very fine large scale kits. With its unparalleled level of visual information paint schemes, models, line drawings and photographs this book is simply the best reference for any modelmaker setting out to build one of these unusual ships.
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• Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; THE QUIET WARRIOR; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chronology; I. BEFORE THE WAR;
• 1. Heritage;
• 2. The Apprentice;
• 3. Marriage;
• 4. Peace;
• 5. Prelude to War; II. THE WAR;
• 6. Cruiser Division Commander;
• 7. War Begins;
• 8. The Marshalls Raid;
• 9. More Raids;
• 10. Midway Preliminaries;
• 11. The Battle of Midway;
• 12. Chief of Staff;
• 13. Planning for the Gilberts;
• 14. The Gilberts;
• 15. Planning for the Marshalls;
• 16. The Marshalls;
• 17. Marianas Preliminaries;
• 18. Battle of the Philippine Sea;
• 19. The Mariana's Campaign.

• 20. Planning for Iwo Jima and Okinawa21. Iwo Jima; 22. Okinawa; 23. Victory and Occupation; III. AFTER THE WAR; 24. President, Naval War College; 25. Ambassador to the Phillippines; 26. The Final Years; Acknowledgments;
• Appendix I: Five Stars;
• Appendix II: Definition of an Admiral;
• Appendix III: Decorations and Awards of Admiral Spruance; Bibliography; Sources; Bibliographical Notes; Index; About the Editor.

Regarded as the standard biography of World War II naval hero Adm. Raymond A. Spruance, this work is now available in trade paperback for the first time. Spruance, victor of the battles of Midway and the Philippine Sea and commander of the Fifth Fleet in the invasions of the Gilberts, the Marshalls, the Marianas, and Okinawa, is one of the towering figures in American naval history. Yet his reserved, cerebral personality did not make"good copy" for correspondents, and until the publication of The Quiet Warrior he remained an elusive figure. Thomas Buell has succeeded in evoking the nature of the man as well as recording the achievements of the admiral in this brilliant biography, which won the Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Literary Achievement the year of its publication. About the Author Cdr. Thomas B. Buell, USN (Ret.) is the author of several books, most notably Master of Seapower: A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King. He died in 2003.
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• Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Foreword by George H.W. Bush; Preface; 1 An Ambulance Driver in Alsace-Lorraine; 2 A Yank Joins the Battle of Britain; 3 Return to U.S. Shores; 4 Setting Up an Underwater Demolition School; 5 On to the Pacific; 6 The UDTs Come of Age in the Marianas; 7 Three Stripes, Three Stars; 8 The Final Stretch: Iwo Jima and Okinawa; 9 End of the War; Epilogue; Appendix A: Summary of Duty Assignments; Appendix B: Selected Documents; Index; About the Author.

Although bad eyesight kept him from receiving a commission in the U.S. Navy when he graduated from the Naval Academy in 1933, Draper Kauffman became a hero of underwater demolition in World War II and went on to a distinguished naval career. Today Admiral Kauffman is remembered as the nation's first frogman and the father of the Navy SEALs. His spectacular wartime service disarming enemy bombs, establishing bomb disposal schools, and organizing and leading the Navy's first demolition units is the focus of this biography written by Kauffman's sister. Elizabeth Kauffman Bush, who also is the aunt of President George W. Bush, draws on family papers as well as Navy documents to tell Kauffman's story for the first time.
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• The "Jim"
• New York, New York
• This ship will do us very well
• If you build it, they will come ... and build ships
• Wendy the welder at Southeastern
• You were a laborer no matter what skills you had
• If you don't join, you don't work
• Doing the same thing over and over
• You can't spell victory with an absent "T"
• Who are all these chaps?
• Fifteen minutes of fame
• Getting ready for war
• New York to Great Britain
• It sounded just like a two-inch firecracker
• St. Patrick's Day, 1943
• A submarine's torpedo ended the career of ...
• A mixed blessing
• Then, as Camelot, it disappeared.

• The development of the Japanese Midget Submarine Program
• The Pearl Harbor Attack
• Aftermath: legend and reality
• The end of the midget submarines
• Rediscovering the first kill
• The "three-piece" midget
• Archaeology, memory, management and protection
• Appendix: The anatomy of the Japanese midget submarine
• Notes.

"One of the last remaining and persistent mysteries of the Pearl Harbor attack is that of the Japanese Midget Submarines. It is a fascinating story of innovation, courage, secrets, and failed expectations. And it is not only a story of the morning hours of December 7, but of the years before to develop these weapons and the years after, where they were deployed in the great Pacific War and how they fared as weapons of war." These words by Daniel J. Basta, Director of the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, from the foreword of this manuscript, capture both the essence and the impact of this work, assembled by James P. Delgado and his coauthors. Th e authors have combed the records of the Imperial Japanese Navy and the recollections of its veterans as well as US Department of Defense archives. They have logged hours of direct observation and research on the mini-subs in their final resting places, in some cases more than 1,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific. And in the end, they have woven a tapestry of scholarship, historical sleuthing, scientific insight, and good storytelling that will enthrall specialists and history buff s alike.
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• The development of the Japanese Midget Submarine Program
• Midget submariens at Pearl Harbor
• Aftermath: legend and reality
• The end of the midgets
• The Ward midget
• The three-piece midget
• Archaeology, memory, management, and protection
• Appendix: The anatomy of the type A Kō-Hyōteki.

"One of the last remaining and persistent mysteries of the Pearl Harbor attack is that of the Japanese Midget Submarines. It is a fascinating story of innovation, courage, secrets, and failed expectations. And it is not only a story of the morning hours of December 7, but of the years before to develop these weapons and the years after, where they were deployed in the great Pacific War and how they fared as weapons of war." These words by Daniel J. Basta, Director of the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, from the foreword of this manuscript, capture both the essence and the impact of this work, assembled by James P. Delgado and his coauthors. Th e authors have combed the records of the Imperial Japanese Navy and the recollections of its veterans as well as US Department of Defense archives. They have logged hours of direct observation and research on the mini-subs in their final resting places, in some cases more than 1,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific. And in the end, they have woven a tapestry of scholarship, historical sleuthing, scientific insight, and good storytelling that will enthrall specialists and history buff s alike.
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While a large number of books have dealt with the navies and war at sea during the World Wars, the immediate aftermaths have generally received only minimal coverage. However, the fates of defeated navies are of enormous interest from a number of perspectives. These include the relative priorities of the victorious powers, acquisition and testing of ex-enemy materiel and the intended future capabilities of those ex-enemy navies that were to be allowed to continue to exist. This new book traces the histories of navies and ships of the defeated powers from the months leading up to the relevant armistices or surrenders through to the final execution of the appropriate post-war settlements. In doing so, it discusses the way in which the victorious powers reached their final demands, how these were implemented, and to what effect. The later histories of ships that saw subsequent service, either in their original navies or in those navies which acquired them, are also described. In doing this, much use is made of material drawn from archival, and in some cases archaeological, sources, some of which has never previously been used. Through these, a wide range of long-standing myths are busted, and some badly distorted modern views and assessments of events in the wake of the conflicts put right. The fascinating narrative will be accompanied by tabulated lists of all major navy-built (and certain significant ex-mercantile) enemy ships in commission at the relevant date of the armistice or surrender, or whose hulks were specifically listed for attention in post-Second World War allied agreements. These will include key dates in their careers and their ultimate fates. This highly original book, drawing on archaeological evidence as well as archival sources, and including numerous photographs will become an essential reference tool for all those interested in the naval history of the two World Wars

• Figures
• photos
• maps
• the actor and the admirals
• the countermeasures programme
• the sounds of deception
• beach jumper training - camp Bradford and Ocracoke
• first assignment - operation Husky
• island diversions and special operations
• beach jumpers in the MTO - Act Two
• Adriatic interlude
• ringing down the curtain in the MTO
• the RCM picture in the Pacific
• Tayabas Bay finale
• beach jumpers redux
• practicing to deceive
• electronic warriors ashore and afloat in Vietnam
• naval cover and deception in the post-Vietnam era
• glossary
• selected bibliography
• index.
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This book looks at the history of the trained officers and men who went by the cover name "Beach Jumpers". Their top-secret mission was to create and sustain the illusion that a military landing was imminent at Beach "A" when in fact US/Allied troops would hit the beaches 100 miles away at Beach "X". During World War II their tactics were extremely successful in Sicily, Salerno, Southern France and the Philippines. Beach Jumpers later served ashore and afloat in Vietnam. Their descendents, called "Fleet Tactical Deception Groups", continue their classified work today. This book details the development, major operations, weapons and leaders of the group. The Beach Jumpers began as a naval task group under the direct control of the fleet commander and consisted of specialists, officers and men, trained to conduct tactical cover and deception missions, to include radio and radar countermeasures.
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• Atlantic shooting gallery
• First time out
• Rendezvous at Cape Farewell
• The hardest battle
• The running fight
• The climax
• The turning point
• A lucky escape
• Some new weapons
• Fresh pastures
• The waiting game
• The end of the road
• The end of a dream.

In essence, this is the story of U-223, commanded by Karl-J'rgen W'ehter from the time of her commissioning in Kiel in January 1943 through a murderous career to her eventual but dramatic demise in the Mediterranean in March 1944. At the same time, the book covers the declining fortunes of the U-boat arm as a whole from early 1943 when it seemed invincible and seriously threatened the Allies with defeat to the end of the war.
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This book describes in considerable detail the people, events ships and aircraft that shaped the Air Service from its origins in the late 19th century to its demise in 1945. The formative years began when a British Naval Mission was established in Japan in 1867 to advise on the development of balloons for naval purposes. After the first successful flights of fixed-wing aircraft in the USA and Europe, the Japanese navy sent several officers to train in Europe as pilots and imported a steady stream of new models to evaluate.During World War One Japan became allied with the UK and played a significant part in keeping the German fleets of ships and submarines at bay in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. However, in the international naval treaties that followed they felt betrayed, since the number of capital ships, battleships and cruisers, that they were allowed was below those of the USA and the UK.Aircraft carriers were not included, so a program of carrier building was started and continued until World War Two. At the same time they developed an aircraft industry and at the beginning of war their airplanes were comparable, and in some instances superior, to those of the British and Americans.Much prewar experience was gained during Japans invasion of China, but their continued anger with America festered and resulted in their becoming allied with Germany, Italy and the Vichy France during World War Two. There followed massive successful attacks on Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, the Southern Islands, Port Darwin and New Guinea.The British were decimated and the USA recoiled at the onslaught, taking over a year to regroup and take the war to the Imperial Japanese forces. Throughout the conflict many sea battles were fought and the name Zero became legendary. When Japan eventually capitulated after the Atomic bombs were dropped the Japanese Imperial Air Service was disbanded.

• Preface; Introduction; Chapter One: Muleshoe to Texas A & M: Growing Up in Texas, 1920s and 1930s; Chapter Two: The Old Corps: USMC Boot Camp, 1940-1941; Chapter Three: Eighth Marines: Preparing to Fight; Chapter Four: Exotic Samoa: Defending the Southern Lifeline; Chapter Five: Guadalcanal: We Were Living Like Animals; Photo Gallery; Chapter Six: New Zealand: Paradise Found; Chapter Seven: Tarawa: Hell Realized; Chapter Eight: Hawaii: Recovery and Preparing for the Next Show; Chapter Nine: Saipan: "We Were There to Kill Japs"; Chapter Ten: Death Came Near: Wounded and Recovery.

In 1940, native West Texan Roy H. Elrod joined the Marine Corps. A few years later his unit, the 8th Marine Regiment, went into the fight at Guadalcanal, where he commanded a platoon of 37 mm gunners. They endured Japanese attacks, malarial tropical weather, and starvation rations. His combat leadership earned him a Silver Star and a battlefield promotion. On D-Day at Tarawa his platoon waded their 37 mm cannons ashore, each weighing nearly 1,000 pounds, through half a mile of bullet-laced surf to get to an island where the killing never stopped. His was the only platoon to get its guns ashore and into action that first day. At Saipan, Elrod commanded a platoon of 75 mm halftracks, but he was riddled with shrapnel from an enemy artillery shell that took him out of the war. Fred H. Allison interviewed Elrod, drew upon wartime letters home, and provided annotations to the narrative of this young Marine infantry officer, a job that had an extremely low survival potential.
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• Muleshoe to Texas A&M : growing up in Texas, 1920s and 1930s
• The old Corps : USMC boot camp, 1940-1941
• Eighth Marines : preparing to fight
• Exotic Samoa : defending the southern lifeline
• Guadalcanal : we were living like animals
• New Zealand : paradise found
• Tarawa : hell realized
• Hawaii : recovery and preparing for the next show
• Saipan : "We were there to kill Japs"
• Death came near : wounded and recovery
• Epilogue.

In 1940, native West Texan Roy H. Elrod joined the Marine Corps. A few years later his unit, the 8th Marine Regiment, went into the fight at Guadalcanal, where he commanded a platoon of 37 mm gunners. They endured Japanese attacks, malarial tropical weather, and starvation rations. His combat leadership earned him a Silver Star and a battlefield promotion. On D-Day at Tarawa his platoon waded their 37 mm cannons ashore, each weighing nearly 1,000 pounds, through half a mile of bullet-laced surf to get to an island where the killing never stopped. His was the only platoon to get its guns ashore and into action that first day. At Saipan, Elrod commanded a platoon of 75 mm halftracks, but he was riddled with shrapnel from an enemy artillery shell that took him out of the war. Fred H. Allison interviewed Elrod, drew upon wartime letters home, and provided annotations to the narrative of this young Marine infantry officer, a job that had an extremely low survival potential.
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• America's weapons of the weak
• Britain's weapons of the strong
• The U.S. Navy and the emergence of command technology
• The Royal Navy and the quest for reach
• Command technology on trial in the United States
• A very bad gap in Britain
• Conclusion.

When President Eisenhower referred to the "military-industrial complex" in his 1961 Farewell Address, he summed up in a phrase the merger of government and industry that dominated the Cold War United States. In this bold reappraisal, Katherine Epstein uncovers the origins of the military-industrial complex in the decades preceding World War I, as the United States and Great Britain struggled to perfect a crucial new weapon: the self-propelled torpedo. Torpedoes epitomized the intersection of geopolitics, globalization, and industrialization at the turn of the twentieth century. They threatened to revolutionize naval warfare by upending the delicate balance among the world's naval powers. They were bought and sold in a global marketplace, and they were cutting-edge industrial technologies. Building them, however, required substantial capital investments and close collaboration among scientists, engineers, businessmen, and naval officers. To address these formidable challenges, the U.S. and British navies created a new procurement paradigm: instead of buying finished armaments from the private sector or developing them from scratch at public expense, they began to invest in private-sector research and development. The inventions emerging from torpedo R&D sparked legal battles over intellectual property rights that reshaped national security law. Blending military, legal, and business history with the history of science and technology, Torpedo recasts the role of naval power in the run-up to World War I and exposes how national security can clash with property rights in the modern era.
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In a bold reappraisal, Katherine Epstein uncovers the origins of the " military-industrial complex" not in the Cold War but in the decades before WWI, as the United States and Great Britain struggled to perfect a crucial new weapon: the self-propelled torpedo. Torpedo R& D sparked intellectual property battles that reshaped national security law.
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• America's weapons of the weak
• Britain's weapons of the strong
• The U.S. Navy and the emergence of command technology
• The Royal Navy and the quest for reach
• Command technology on trial in the United States
• A very bad gap in Britain
• Conclusion.

When President Eisenhower referred to the "military-industrial complex" in his 1961 Farewell Address, he summed up in a phrase the merger of government and industry that dominated the Cold War United States. In this bold reappraisal, Katherine Epstein uncovers the origins of the military-industrial complex in the decades preceding World War I, as the United States and Great Britain struggled to perfect a crucial new weapon: the self-propelled torpedo. Torpedoes epitomized the intersection of geopolitics, globalization, and industrialization at the turn of the twentieth century. They threatened to revolutionize naval warfare by upending the delicate balance among the world's naval powers. They were bought and sold in a global marketplace, and they were cutting-edge industrial technologies. Building them, however, required substantial capital investments and close collaboration among scientists, engineers, businessmen, and naval officers. To address these formidable challenges, the U.S. and British navies created a new procurement paradigm: instead of buying finished armaments from the private sector or developing them from scratch at public expense, they began to invest in private-sector research and development. The inventions emerging from torpedo R&D sparked legal battles over intellectual property rights that reshaped national security law. Blending military, legal, and business history with the history of science and technology, Torpedo recasts the role of naval power in the run-up to World War I and exposes how national security can clash with property rights in the modern era.
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"The ability of the United States Navy to fight and win a protracted war in the Pacific was not solely the result of technology, tactics, or leadership. Naval aviation maintenance played a major role in the U.S. victory over Japan in the second World War. The naval war against Japan did not achieve sustained success until enough aircraft technicians were available to support the high tempo of aviation operations that fast carrier task force doctrine demanded. When the United States realized war was imminent and ordered a drastic increase in the size of its aviation fleet, the Navy was forced to reconsider its earlier practices and develop new policies in maintenance, supply, and technical training. Not only did a shortage of technicians plague the Navy, but the scarcity of aviation supply and repair facilities in the Pacific soon caused panic in Washington. While the surface navy's modernization of at-sea replenishment was beneficial, it did not solve the problems of sustaining war-time aircraft readiness levels sufficient to a winning a naval air war. Fisher outlines the drastic institutional changes that accompanied an increase in aviation maintenance personnel from fewer than 10,000 to nearly 250,000 bluejackets, the complete restructuring of the naval aviation technical educational system, and the development of a highly skilled labor force. The first comprehensive study on the importance of aircraft maintenance and the aircraft technician in the age of the aircraft carrier, Sustaining the Carrier War, provides the missing link to our understanding of Great Power conflict at sea."-- Provided by publisher

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Royal Navy and the Submarine, 1901
• 1945
• 2. Making Submarines Work
• 3. Beginnings
• 4. Overseas Submarines
• 5. Experimental Coastal Submarines
• 6. Ocean Submarine
• 7. Submarine and Anti-Submarine: The Run-Up to War
• 8. First Submarine War
• 9. War Construction
• 10. War Experience and New Technology
• 11. New Submarine for a New Kind of War
• 12. Fleet Submarines and Minelayers
• 13. Arms Control
• 14. Rearmament
• Colour section between pages 256 and 257
• 15. Second World War
• 16. Glimpse of the Future.

• Ocean surveillance : World War I
• Ocean surveillance after 1918
• Net versus net : the Battle of the Atlantic
• Commanding the fleet : plotting
• Picture-centric air defense
• The experience with radar
• The computer era
• The birth of tactical automation : the fleet air defense crisis
• The naval tactical data system
• Another path to automation : weapons control
• Spreading CIC automation
• Fleet netting in action : Vietnam and after
• Intraship netting : ASMD
• Crisis and transformation
• Extending combat system automation : aircraft
• U.S. ocean surveillance after 1945
• Netting tactical intelligence : IOIC and its successors
• A new kind of fleet command : FCC and TFCC
• Using ocean surveillance : OTH-T
• The other side of the hill
• Net versus net : U.S. ocean surveillance versus the SOSS
• What does it all mean?

Ultimately, World War II was the first war to be won by technology, but within only a few weeks after the war began, the US Navy realised its torpedo programme was a dismal failure. Submarine skippers reported that most of their torpedoes were either missing the targets or failing to explode if they did hit. The United States had to work fast if it expected to compete with the Japanese Long Lance, the biggest and fastest torpedeo in the world, and Germany's electric and sonor models. This book tells the story of how Navy planners threw aside the careful procedures of peacetime science and initiated "radical research": gathering together the nation's best scientists and engineers in huge research centres and giving them freedom of experimentation to create sophisticated weaponry with a single goal - winning the war. The largest centre for torpedeo work was a requisitioned gymnasium at Harvard University, where under the leadership of such men as Eric Walker (later, President of Penn State University), the most famous names in science worked with the best graduate students from around the country at the business of war. World War II grew into a chess match played by scientists and physicists, and it became the only war in history to be won by weapons invented during the conflict. For this book, Robert Gannon, conducted numerous interviews over a 20-year period with scientists, engineers, physicists, submarine skippers, and navy bureaucrats, all involved in the development of the advanced weapons technology that won the war. These oral histories reveal that, in retrospect, suprising even to those who went through it, the search for the "hellions of the deep" was, for many, the most exciting period of their lives.
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One of the most significant warship designers of the twentieth century, Sir Stanley Goodall rose through the ranks of the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors to become its head in 1936. The Corps was responsible for every aspect of the design and construction of British warships, and its head, the Director of Naval Construction, was the principal technical advisor to the Board of Admiralty. Although Goodall was succeeded in this post in January 1944, he remained the Assistant Controller Warship Production until October 1945 so was probably the single most influential figure in British naval technical matters during the war years. His private diary was never intended for publication - indeed it seems to have been a vehicle for venting some of his professional frustrations - so his opinions are candid and unrestrained. His criticisms of many in the Admiralty and the shipyards are enlightening, and taken as a whole the diary provides new and unique insights into a wartime construction programme that built nearly a thousand major warships and a myriad of landing craft and coastal forces. Dr Ian Buxton, a well-known authority on British shipbuilding, has edited the entries covering Goodall's war years, identifying the various personalities and ships referred to (sometimes cryptically), while setting out the context in a number of introductory essays. As an insider's view of a complex process, this book offers every warship enthusiast much new material and a novel perspective on an apparently familiar subject.
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• The early years: 1921-1940
• Formation for military service
• the U.S. Naval Academy: 1940-1943
• World War II submariner: 1943-1946
• Formation for the Society of Jesus: 1946-1958
• Fleet ballistic missile submarine chaplain: 1958-1961
• Circuit rider, recruit chaplain, and Alaska pastor: 1961-1966
• Return to the Naval Academy: 1966-1969
• War chaplain
• Vietnam: 1969-1970
• Florida, Hawaii, and New London again: 1970-1976
• Command climax
• Norfolk: 1976-1980
• Jesuit Retreat Master and Pastor: 1981-1988
• Epilogue: Jake Laboon
• the legacy.

• The early years: 1921-1940
• Formation for military service
• the U.S. Naval Academy: 1940-1943
• World War II submariner: 1943-1946
• Formation for the Society of Jesus: 1946-1958
• Fleet ballistic missile submarine chaplain: 1958-1961
• Circuit rider, recruit chaplain, and Alaska pastor: 1961-1966
• Return to the Naval Academy: 1966-1969
• War chaplain
• Vietnam: 1969-1970
• Florida, Hawaii, and New London again: 1970-1976
• Command climax
• Norfolk: 1976-1980
• Jesuit Retreat Master and Pastor: 1981-1988
• Epilogue: Jake Laboon
• the legacy.

• First Arkansas namesake warships
• A new warship that would make history
• First combat
• Training to join a world at war
• Between the wars
• D-Day heroism
• War in the Pacific
• Sacrificed to the dawn of the atomic age.

While little has been written about the USS Arkansas , this battleship carried the stateAEs name through two world wars, a Mexican invasion, and into the atomic age. The USS Arkansas , measuring almost the length of two football fields, went to sea in 1911 and sailed the world until 1946 when it served as a target for the atomic bomb tests in the South Pacific. In between, the ship participated in the invasion of Vera Cruz, Mexico; served in World War I; helped Arkansas get an official flag; and assisted in the World War II battles at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. Highlighting the narrative with previously unpublished photos, the authors tell the fascinating story of the ship and its men by referencing handwritten journals penciled in the midst of service and combat.
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Wartime employee newsletter produced by Hurley Marine Works, a naval industrial repair company located in Oakland, California

This text covers all the different types of warship that fought from the Atlantic and Arctic to the Pacific Ocean. From aircraft carriers to submarines, assault ships to destroyers and cruisers, Bernard Ireland's paintings bring to life the variety of warships that took part in the greatest naval conflict in history. Naval historian Bernard Ireland offers new insights into the conflict, investigating how German U-boats ultimately lost the battle of the Atlantic while US submarines annihiliated Japan's merchant navy.
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In 1914 international naval power was measured in dreadnought battleships. They were the index of national power like the 'nuclear club' of those 21st century countries armed with atomic weapons. Every nation with pretentions to world power joined the 'battleship race', from France and Russia to Argentina and Chile. Most critical of all were the rival building programmes of Britain and Germany, a bitter contest that helped trigger the First World War. Within a generation, the mighty battleships were rendered redundant. Submarines and aircraft dominated the seas. Amphibious warfare became crucial: both for the liberation of German-occupied Europe and to drive back the Japanese from their island conquests. Bernard Ireland analyses this extraordinary transition, combining a wide-ranging analysis with vivid narratives of key battles and campaigns.
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"History of 721 tankers contracted for by the U.S. Maritime Commission and its successor, the U.S. Maritime Administration"--Provided by publisher.

• Dream Scenario
• Convergence
• ULTRA
• Encounter
• Voyage of Discovery
• Resurrecting the Past
• Three Miles Down
• History Revealed.

World War II gave rise to tales of epic battles, sagas of heroism, bravery, and cowardice. The sinking of Japanese submarine I-52 is one such tale. Author David W. Jourdan recovers this sunken history and explores how Allied codebreaking, the victory over the Axis's desperate mission for much-needed resources, and a modern-day treasure hunt contributed to the contemporary understanding of resource manipulation, air-sea-undersea warfare, and Japanese technology during World War II. In the final year of the war, Germany and Japan were increasingly starved of resources that they needed to continue the conflict. Because of this, the sinking of the Japanese cargo-carrying submarine I-52 played a crucial role in the tipping of Allied-Axis power. The submarine was conducting the last mission of a desperate program called Yanagi, aiming to transport vital war supplies, technology, and human expertise between the Axis confederates, before it was caught and destroyed in a combined air, sea, and undersea battle. Its mission, cargo, and movements were known to the Allies by codebreaking efforts, and its sinking denied Germany sorely needed rubber, metals, chemicals, medicines, industrial designs, weapons technology, and know-how. Incidental to the hundreds of tons of military supplies was a shipment of gold. The subsequent interest of modern-day treasure hunters has given ocean explorers, like Jourdan, the chance to uncover the details of such a unique historical event. The research that was stimulated by this effort led to the discovery of one-of-a-kind recordings of American Avenger torpedo bomber attacks on an enemy submarine. One of the first joint American-Russian research expeditions, the search for the wreck of I-52 and its discovery on the seafloor, nearly intact over three miles deep, accompany the historical account of the submarine with a tale of teamwork, detective work, and mariners' battle with the sea.
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• Dream Scenario
• Convergence
• ULTRA
• Encounter
• Voyage of Discovery
• Resurrecting the Past
• Three Miles Down
• History Revealed.

World War II gave rise to tales of epic battles, sagas of heroism, bravery, and cowardice. The sinking of Japanese submarine I-52 is one such tale. Author David W. Jourdan recovers this sunken history and explores how Allied codebreaking, the victory over the Axis's desperate mission for much-needed resources, and a modern-day treasure hunt contributed to the contemporary understanding of resource manipulation, air-sea-undersea warfare, and Japanese technology during World War II. In the final year of the war, Germany and Japan were increasingly starved of resources that they needed to continue the conflict. Because of this, the sinking of the Japanese cargo-carrying submarine I-52 played a crucial role in the tipping of Allied-Axis power. The submarine was conducting the last mission of a desperate program called Yanagi, aiming to transport vital war supplies, technology, and human expertise between the Axis confederates, before it was caught and destroyed in a combined air, sea, and undersea battle. Its mission, cargo, and movements were known to the Allies by codebreaking efforts, and its sinking denied Germany sorely needed rubber, metals, chemicals, medicines, industrial designs, weapons technology, and know-how. Incidental to the hundreds of tons of military supplies was a shipment of gold. The subsequent interest of modern-day treasure hunters has given ocean explorers, like Jourdan, the chance to uncover the details of such a unique historical event. The research that was stimulated by this effort led to the discovery of one-of-a-kind recordings of American Avenger torpedo bomber attacks on an enemy submarine. One of the first joint American-Russian research expeditions, the search for the wreck of I-52 and its discovery on the seafloor, nearly intact over three miles deep, accompany the historical account of the submarine with a tale of teamwork, detective work, and mariners' battle with the sea.
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In February 1945, the Japanese High Command sent four submarines on a secret recovery mission to the Philippines. An American submarine wolfpack was sent to intercept them. During the night, the submarine "USS Batfish" engaged the enemy. And in the ensuing skirmish, a fully armed torpedo lodged in a firing tube. With the enemy alerted to their presence, and their own torpedo threatening to destroy them, the crew of the Batfish entered into a 72-hour battle. In an astonishing display of skill, fortitude, and mariner's luck, the "Batfish" not only survived, but they destroyed a record-breaking three enemy submarines in a single engagement. This is the never-before-told story of the submarine, the captain, and the crew of the "USS Batfish", and a testament to the bravery of those who endured hell under the waves.
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