Author : Eduardo Delgado
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 21,89 MB
Release : 2016-10-31
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9788496658592
This book offers an outstanding visual record of the history, uniforms and gear used by the Kriegsmarine. Over 500 pages, 2600 photographs (most unpublished before) accompany the clear, explanatory text.
Author : Jeffrey Jones
Publisher : Jeffrey Frank Jones
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 20,90 MB
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : History
ISBN :
CONTENTS By CHAPTER: Capture of U-505 on 4 June 1944 German Navy U-Boat (Submarine) Headquarters War Logs From World War II in the Collection of the Navy Department Library Recollections of Captain Daniel V. Gallery, USN, Concerning the Capture of German Submarine U-505 U-505 Photographs German Submarine Crew Training During Construction, Outfitting, and Commissioning of U-boats: Document Captured on U-505 U-505 Personal Diary - Anonymous author, possibly Oberfunkmaat (Signalman First Class) Gottfried Fischer Radio Documents Captured on German Submarine U-505 U-505 Red Notebook German Submarine U-106 Engineering Section War Diary Captured on U-505 U-107 Engineering Section War Diary Captured on U-505 U-138 Engineering Section War Diary Captured on U-505 Wehrmacht [German Armed Forces] Reports Captured on U-505 Glossary of German Terminology in Engineering Documents Captured on U-505
Author : Gordon Williamson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,64 MB
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1472847946
A complete illustrated study of the German Kriegsmarine throughout World War II. Hamstrung at first by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, during the 1930s, the German Navy underwent a programme of rearmament in defiance of the restrictions, building modern warships under limitations which forced technological innovation. Submarines were strictly prohibited by the treaty, and yet, following years of covert development, they became one of the Kriegsmarine's most deadly weapons. Blooded in the Spanish Civil War, the surface ships of the Kriegsmarine went on to play a crucial role in the opening salvoes of World War II during the invasions of Poland and Norway, although serious losses here set back plans for the invasion of Britain, and by the end of the war, only a handful of surface vessels remained to be divided up among the Allies. From the beginning of the war, but especially after the fall of France, the dreaded and extraordinarily successful U-boats stalked the Atlantic, threatening vital British shipping convoys and choking off the lifeline of munitions and supply from the US. Once Italy and Japan entered the war, German naval operations expanded to the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. This highly illustrated volume is a comprehensive study of the German Navy throughout the war, from pocket battleships to torpedo boats.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 38,97 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Archives
ISBN :
Author : Chris McNab
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,63 MB
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781906626297
Broken down by campaign and key actions, Order of Battle: German Kriegsmarine in World War II illustrates the strengths and organizational structures of the Third Reich’s navy, building into a detailed compendium of information. Full-color order of battle tree diagrams help the reader quickly understand the make up of U-boat flotillas and surface fleets. Examples from key moments in the war include the U-boat wolfpack group West, which harried Allied shipping in the summer of 1941 and the fleet gathered for the invasion of Denmark in April 1940.
Author : David Porter
Publisher : WWII Germany
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,62 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782745969
Germany's navy, the Kriegsmarine, played a critical role in the Third Reich's attempt to restrict the flow of supplies, men and materiel from the United States to Britain in the early years of the war and from North America and Britain to the Soviet Union from 1941. Such was the success of the U-boats in particular, by the end of the war more than 3000 Allied ships with a combined gross tonnage 14.5 million had been sent to the bottom of the sea. The Kriegsmarine examines the workings of the German Navy through its organization, command structure, economic resources, production figures, recruitment, training and philosophy. Broken down by key campaigns and subject areas, the book includes exhaustive reference tables, diagrams, maps and charts, presenting all the core data in easy-to-follow formats. The Kriegsmarine is an essential reference guide for anyone interested in the history and structure of Germany's wartime navy.
Author : Enzo Berrafato
Publisher : Schiffer Limited
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,17 MB
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 9780764342745
This book describes and shows – in over 1000 color images – the history, uniforms, headgear, insignia, and equipment of the German Kriegsmarine between 1935 and 1945. In this work, the authors focus primarily on all the unnamed seamen who served on the minelayers, Schnellboote, minehunters, cruisers, U-Boats, and other ships. For this reason, they discovered previously unknown war-era records from private archives. The uniforms and equipment shown are originals from the period, and likewise come from private collections. This book is a must for readers who are interested in the history of the Kriegsmarine, and is a definitive reference for collectors of Third Reich-era memorabilia.
Author : Robert Jackson
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 12,46 MB
Release : 2001
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN :
Covering all classes of vessel, and all theatres of war, from the sorties into the Atlantic by the capital ships Bismarck, Tirpitz, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, to the actions of the E-boats in the English Channel and the Mediterranean.
Author : Christopher Ailsby
Publisher : Ian Allan Pub
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 39,3 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780711030992
Arguably of all the branches of the German armed forces in World War Two, only the Kriegsmarine had the ability to bring Britain to defeat once the immediate threat of invasion after Dunkirk had receded. With the threat posed by its U-Boats and great capital ships, such as the Bismarck and Tirpitz, the Kriegsmarine, through its attacks on the convoys bringing vital supplies across the Atlantic, came close to starving Britain into submission. This addition to a popular series will provide the collector with detailed and objective advice on Kriegsmarine memorabilia with the usual guide to values and how to spot forgeries. For all active collectors of Third Reich militaria and those interested in the Kriegsmarine during the period from 1939 to 1945, this will be essential reading.
Author : Hans Frank
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,29 MB
Release : 2007-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1844157164
A detailed narrative of S-boat, or schnellboot, actions during World War II in all the theatres where they were deployed. The author, describes, with the help of a multitude of maps and photographs, all the incidents that these 45-knot fast attack craft were involved in. The German motor torpedo boat (German: S-boot, English: E-boat) was a controversial subject in the pre-war period of German naval rearmament. As late as 1938, the Fleet Commander recommended that S-boot building be terminated on the grounds that the craft was merely a 'weapon of opportunity' without a defined role. This outlook changed dramatically after the first wartime successes. Soon the S-boot was required on all fronts, and the area of operations. In this volume the operational deployment of the S-Boot in these theatres is given comprehensive treatment for the first time, and not purely from the isolated viewpoint of S-Boot warfare, but as an integral part of the overall military objectives of the time. This study of the effectiveness of the S-Boot, its successes and failures, is based on war diary entries and previously unseen original sources. It is a first-class account of this German naval arm in which survived to be the last class of German surface warship still carrying the offensive to the enemy.
