Book Description
Presents an intimate history of The Big T from its launching in 1920 as the world's most powerful fighting ship through her survival at Pearl Harbor and service in WWII.
Author : Jonathan G. Utley
Publisher : Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 38,82 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN :
Presents an intimate history of The Big T from its launching in 1920 as the world's most powerful fighting ship through her survival at Pearl Harbor and service in WWII.
Author : Kenneth J. Hagan
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 34,82 MB
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313245817
Essays discuss the development of the United States Navy and examine the role of the Navy in the country's defense
Author : Ivan Musicant
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,56 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN :
The story of the American battleship commissioned in 1941 and its career during World War II.
Author : Theodore C. Mason
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,44 MB
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1612511562
Vigorous and highly readable, this portrait of the enlisted man's life aboard the U.S. battleship California depicts the devastation at Pearl Harbor from the hazardous vantage point of the open "birdbath" atop the mainmast.
Author : William Thomas Generous
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 44,37 MB
Release : 2005-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0813138043
This WWII naval history chronicles the prolific combat career of one of the most important US ships to fight in the Pacific War. Few ships in American history have had as illustrious a history as the heavy cruiser USS Portland (CA-33), affectionately known by her crew as 'Sweet Pea.' With the destruction of most of the US battleship fleet at Pearl Harbor, cruisers such as Sweet Pea carried the biggest guns the Navy possessed for nearly a year after the start of World War II. Sweet Pea at War describes in harrowing detail how Portland and her sisters protected the precious carriers and held the line against overwhelming Japanese naval strength. Portland was instrumental in the American victories at the Battle of the Coral Sea, the Battle of Midway, and the naval battle of Guadalcanal—conflicts that historians regard as turning points in the Pacific war. She rescued nearly three thousand sailors from sunken ships, some of them while she herself was badly damaged. Only a colossal hurricane ended her career, but she sailed home from that, too. Based on extensive research and interviews with members of the ship's crew, Sweet Pea at War recounts from launching to scrapping the history of USS Portland, demonstrating that she deserves to be remembered as one of the most important ships in US naval history.
Author : Robert L O'connell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 10,53 MB
Release : 2019-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1000310647
Writing critically about something you have come to regard with affection must provoke mixed emotions. As I learned more and more about the modern battleship's shortcomings, I found myself, like so many before me, falling under its spell. I have traveled hundreds of miles to visit these wonderful ships, reverently preserved like a necklace of talismans around our nation's coasts. I have stood in awe under the great guns, wondering what it must have been like to hear them fire. Perhaps it is true that their sound and fury signified very little in terms of actual destructive power. But most people thought they did, and that was and still is important. Besides, for the most part, we were proud of those ships. Now we live in a time of weapons so terrible that we must actually hide them-beneath the ground and below the surface of the sea. But, like battleships, they keep the peace precisely because of what others think they can do. All things being equal, who would not prefer the dreadnoughts?
Author : Hiram Martin Chittenden
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 13,33 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Peace
ISBN :
Author : Theodore Roosevelt
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 20,50 MB
Release : 2018-10-12
Category :
ISBN : 9780342577903
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Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher :
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 47,16 MB
Release : 1943
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
On t.p. verso: Dept. of state."On January 2, 1943 the Department of state released a publication entitled 'Peace and war: United States foreign policy, 1931-1941,' containing references to a number of documents concerning the conduct of the foreign relations of the United States during that ten-year period. It was stated at the time that these documents would be published later. They are accordingly published herein, together with a reprint of the publication released on January 2"--Foreword.
Author : Mark Stille
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 41,82 MB
Release : 2015-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1472807014
This book completes an authoritative two-part study on the Standard-type US battleships of World War II – ships that were designed to fight a different type of war than the one that unfolded. It gives precise technical details of the design history and features of the Tennessee, Colorado and the unfinished South Dakota and Lexington classes, whilst providing an operational history of the former two. Written by a leading expert on the US Navy in World War II and augmented by contemporary photographs and specially commissioned illustrations, this is the other half of the story of the US Standard-type battleships – from the terrible damage they sustained at Pearl Harbor to their support of the war-winning landings of the US Marine Corps and US Army.