Japanese Landing Craft Of World War Ii
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Japanese Landing Craft Of World War Ii
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Author : U. S. Naval Technical Mission to Japan Staff
language : en
Publisher: Merriam Press
Release Date : 1997
Japanese Landing Craft Of World War Ii written by U. S. Naval Technical Mission to Japan Staff and has been published by Merriam Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with categories.
Japanese Landing Craft Of World War Ii
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Author : Ray Merriam
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2012-03-10
Japanese Landing Craft Of World War Ii written by Ray Merriam and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-10 with categories.
Merriam Press Military Monograph 214. Fifth Edition (March 2012). The information in this work was obtained from the formerly restricted Navy publication Intelligence Targets Japan (DNI) dated 4 September 1945, revised and published in February 1946. The report was entitled "Characteristics of Japanese Naval Vessels, Article 10, Landing Craft," prepared by the U.S. Naval Technical Mission to Japan. Much of the information was obtained from Japanese sources. The work covers landing craft proper, special naval craft and craft used by the Japanese Army. This newly produced (not a facsimile) reprint of this hard-to-find report will delight all World War II naval history buffs. This new edition includes additional photographs. Contents: Landing Craft Proper; Special Naval Craft; Craft Used by the Japanese Army; Summary of Data on Landing Craft Used by the Japanese Navy; 31 photos; 7 plans; 1 chart.
Kamikaze Attacks Of World War Ii
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Author : Robin L. Rielly
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2010
Kamikaze Attacks Of World War Ii written by Robin L. Rielly and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
"This book details more than 400 kamikaze attacks performed by Japanese aircraft, manned torpedoes, suicide boats and suicide swimmers against U.S. ships during World War II. Part One focuses on the traditions, development and history. Part Two details the kamikaze attacks on ships. Appendices list all of the U.S. ships suffering kamikaze attacks"--Provided by publisher.
Japanese Naval And Merchant Shipping Losses During World War Ii By All Causes
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Author : United States. Joint Army-Navy Assessment Committee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1947
Japanese Naval And Merchant Shipping Losses During World War Ii By All Causes written by United States. Joint Army-Navy Assessment Committee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1947 with History categories.
Japanese Naval Vessels At The End Of World War Ii
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press
Release Date : 1991
Japanese Naval Vessels At The End Of World War Ii written by and has been published by Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.
This unique historical document was compiled by Imperial Japanese Navy Constructor Shizuo Fukui soon after the war ended. It offers a detailed record of what remained of the Japanese Navy for Allied use.
Pacific Island Battlegrounds Of World War Ii
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Author : Earl R. Hinz
language : en
Publisher: Bess Press
Release Date : 1995
Pacific Island Battlegrounds Of World War Ii written by Earl R. Hinz and has been published by Bess Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
Highlights decisive WWII military operations in Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia, and their effects on the islands. Illustrations, maps, and index.
American Amphibious Gunboats In World War Ii
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Author : Robin L. Rielly
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2013-05-13
American Amphibious Gunboats In World War Ii written by Robin L. Rielly and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-13 with History categories.
As the United States began its campaign against numerous Japanese-held islands in the Pacific, Japanese tactics required them to develop new weapons and strategies. One of the most crucial to the island assaults was a new group of amphibious gunboats that could deliver heavy fire close in to shore as American forces landed. These gunboats were also to prove important in the interdiction of inter-island barge traffic and, late in the war, the kamikaze threat. Several variations of these gunboats were developed, based on the troop carrying LCI(L). They included three conversions of the LCI(L), with various combinations of guns, rockets and mortars, and a fourth gunboat, the LCS(L), based on the same hull but designed as a weapons platform from the beginning. By the end of the war the amphibious gunboats had proven their worth.
War At Sea
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Author : Nathan Miller
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1997
War At Sea written by Nathan Miller and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
From the sinking of the British passenger liner Athenia on September 3, 1939, by a German U-boat (against orders) to the Japanese surrender on board the Missouri on September 2, 1945, War at Sea covers every major naveal battle of World War II. "A first-rate work and the best history of its kind yet written".--Vice Admiral William P. Mack, U.S.N. (Ret.). 30 photos.
Hell From The Heavens
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Author : John Wukovits
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-04-07
Hell From The Heavens written by John Wukovits and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-07 with History categories.
Looking toward the heavens, the destroyer crew saw what seemed to be the entire Japanese Air Force assembled directly above. Hell was about to be unleashed on them in the largest single-ship kamikaze attack of World War II. On April 16, 1945, the crewmen of the USS Laffey were battle hardened and prepared. They had engaged in combat off the Normandy coast in June 1944. They had been involved in three prior assaults of enemy positions in the Pacific-at Leyte and Lingayen in the Philippines and at Iwo Jima. They had seen kamikazes purposely crash into other destroyers and cruisers in their unit and had seen firsthand the bloody results of those crazed tactics. But nothing could have prepared the crew for this moment-an eighty-minute ordeal in which the single small ship was targeted by no fewer than twenty-two Japanese suicide aircraft. By the time the unprecedented attack on the Laffey was finished, thirty-two sailors lay dead, more than seventy were wounded, and the ship was grievously damaged. Although she lay shrouded in smoke and fire for hours, the Laffey somehow survived, and the gutted American warship limped from Okinawa's shore for home, where the ship and crew would be feted as heroes. Using scores of personal interviews with survivors, the memoirs of crew members, and the sailors' wartime correspondence, historian and author John Wukovits breathes life into the story of this nearly forgotten historic event. The US Navy described the kamikaze attack on the Laffey "as one of the great sea epics of the war." In Hell from the Heavens, the author makes the ordeal of the Laffey and her crew a story for the ages.
Implacable Foes
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Author : Waldo Heinrichs
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-05-01
Implacable Foes written by Waldo Heinrichs and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-01 with History categories.
On May 8, 1945, Victory in Europe Day-shortened to "V.E. Day"-brought with it the demise of Nazi Germany. But for the Allies, the war was only half-won. Exhausted but exuberant American soldiers, ready to return home, were sent to join the fighting in the Pacific, which by the spring and summer of 1945 had turned into a gruelling campaign of bloody attrition against an enemy determined to fight to the last man. Germany had surrendered unconditionally. The Japanese would clearly make the conditions of victory extraordinarily high. In the United States, Americans clamored for their troops to come home and for a return to a peacetime economy. Politics intruded upon military policy while a new and untested president struggled to strategize among a military command that was often mired in rivalry. The task of defeating the Japanese seemed nearly unsurmountable, even while plans to invade the home islands were being drawn. Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall warned of the toll that "the agony of enduring battle" would likely take. General Douglas MacArthur clashed with Marshall and Admiral Nimitz over the most effective way to defeat the increasingly resilient Japanese combatants. In the midst of this division, the Army began a program of partial demobilization of troops in Europe, which depleted units at a time when they most needed experienced soldiers. In this context of military emergency, the fearsome projections of the human cost of invading the Japanese homeland, and weakening social and political will, victory was salvaged by means of a horrific new weapon. As one Army staff officer admitted, "The capitulation of Hirohito saved our necks." In Implacable Foes, award-winning historians Waldo Heinrichs (a veteran of both theatres of war in World War II) and Marc Gallicchio bring to life the final year of World War Two in the Pacific right up to the dropping of the atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, evoking not only Japanese policies of desperate defense, but the sometimes rancorous debates on the home front. They deliver a gripping and provocative narrative that challenges the decision-making of U.S. leaders and delineates the consequences of prioritizing the European front. The result is a masterly work of military history that evaluates the nearly insurmountable trials associated with waging global war and the sacrifices necessary to succeed.