Cruise Books of the United States Navy in World War II
Author: Dean L. Mawdsley
Publisher: United States Government Printing
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780945274131
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Author: Dean L. Mawdsley
Publisher: United States Government Printing
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780945274131
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gordon Press Publishers
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Published: 1994-10
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ISBN-13: 9780849057113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dean L. Mawdsley
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 84
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kemp Tolley
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2014-01-15
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1612512232
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn early December 1941 in the Philippines, a young Navy ensign named Kemp Tolley was given his first ship command, an old 76-foot schooner that had once served as a movie prop in John Ford's "The Hurricane." Crewed mostly by Filipinos who did not speak English and armed with a cannon that had last seen service in the Spanish-American War, the Lanikai was under top-secret presidential orders to sail south into waters where the Japanese fleet was thought to be. Ostensibly the crew was to spy on Japanese naval movements, but to Tolley it was clear that their mission was to create an incident that would provoke war. Events overtook the plan, however, when Pearl Harbor was bombed before the Lanikaicould get underway. When Bataan and Corregidor fell, she was ordered to set sail for Australia and became one of the few U.S. naval vessels to escape the Philippines. In this book Tolley tells the saga of her great adventure during these grim, early days of the war and makes history come alive as he regales the reader with details of the operation and an explanation of President Roosevelt's order. Tolley's description of their escape in Japanese warship-infested waters ranks with the best of sea tales, and few will be able to forget the Lanikai's 4,000-mile, three-month odyssey.
Author: Dean L. Mawdsley
Publisher: Friends of San Francisco Maritime Museum Library
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781889901329
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: 33rd Ncb
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Published: 2012-07-01
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781478199465
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCruise Books are Informal and nonofficial in nature (they sometimes are compared to college yearbooks) These publications offer insights into the daily activities and attitudes from the perspective of a unit's crew. Cruise books dating from the World War II years are rare today, but they are of special note because of the intense interest by veterans, writers, and scholars in a conflict that involved the entire American nation and engulfed most of the rest of the world. Care has been taken to render the best copy possible. However, quality of this book is based on the condition of the original, and current technology available.
Author: John J. Domagalski
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 159797840X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe early morning hours of July 6, 1943, found the USS "Helena" off the Solomon Islands in what would later be known as the Battle of Kula Gulf. But the ship s participation in the battle came to a swift end when three Japanese torpedoes suddenly struck. One hundred and sixty-eight sailors went down with the ship, many never surviving the initial torpedo hits. As the last of the "Helena" disappeared below the ocean s surface, the remaining crewmen s struggle for survival had only just begun."Sunk in Kula Gulf" tells the epic story of the "Helena" s survivors. Two destroyers plucked more than seven hundred from the sea in a night rescue operation as the battle continued to rage. A second group of eighty-eight sailors clustered into three lifeboats made it to a nearby island and was rescued the next day. A third group of survivors, spread over a wide area, was missed entirely. Clinging to life rafts or debris, the weary men were pushed away from the area of the sinking by a strong current. After enduring days at sea under the hot tropical sun, they finally found land. It was, however, the Japanese-held island of Vella Lavella and deep behind the front lines. The survivors organized and disappeared into the island s interior jungle. Living a meager existence, the group evaded the Japanese for eight days until the Marines and U.S. Navy evacuated the shipwrecked sailors in a daring rescue operation. Using a wide variety of sources, including previously unpublished firsthand accounts, John J. Domagalski brings to life this amazing, little-known story from World War II."
Author: United States. Department of the Navy. Library
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samuel Eliot Morison
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780252070648
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovers the taking of Mindoro as a stepping stone to Luzon, the major landings on the shores of Lingayen Gulf, and the amphibious landings that wrested Borneo from the Japanese, as well as the series of short, swift operations that liberated Palawan, Panay, Negros, Cebu, Bohol, and Mindanao
Author: Bill Bearden
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 798
ISBN-13: 9780870212598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContaining information on the US Navy's customs and ceremonies, this new edition includes details of the recent technological advances in today's Navy. The book has sections covering weapons, ships and aircraft, training procedures and the code of military justice.