Building the Navy's Bases in World War II
Author: United States. Bureau of Yards and Docks
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Published: 1947
Total Pages: 482
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Author: United States. Bureau of Yards and Docks
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Published: 1947
Total Pages: 482
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Department of the Army
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jak P. Mallmann Showell
Publisher: Fonthill Media
Published: 2017-01-21
Total Pages: 285
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHitler's U-boats and his dreaded pocket battleships such as Bismarck and Tirpitz - Churchill dubbed the latter as 'The Beast' - continue to fascinate an ever-growing interest in the Second World War. Despite a numerical disadvantage when compared the Royal Navy, Hitler's U-boats wrecked havoc in the Atlantic against vulnerable convoys and the doomed Bismarck took on the might of Britain's battleships in a mighty clash of the titans. Hitler's Naval Bases, a work of love that took the author over forty years to research and write, is the most comprehensive and dedicated book on the subject matter. A world's first, it covers bases in remarkable detail from the smallest and unmanned locations to the largest dedicated bases in Lorient, Kiel and Wilhemshaven. The book covers the different types of naval base from isolated and forgotten bases, escape and survival bases, to the extremities of the main naval bases. The functions and various departments - artillery, ship construction to dockyard medical service - are explained as are North Sea naval bases in Emden, The Weser Ports and Cuxhaven, Baltic ports, the major bases that never were ('The Lobster's Claw on Heligoland') to France, Asia and German colonies, including re-fuelling in Spain and bases located in Russia and in the 'Heart of England'. Also covered are naval artillery and naval infantry as well as the anatomy of coastal artillery batteries, the shipping yards and even rules for living in such conditions. A most lavish and phenomenal book, it is beautifully illustrated with over 200 unpublished photographs complemented with thousands of unique interviews with veterans during the war as well as survivors. A labour of love, Hitler's Naval Bases is written by a world's leading authoritarian figure and is an essential book for those interested in the armed forces of the Third Reich.
Author: Richard Tregaskis
Publisher: U.S. Navy Seabee Museum
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 474
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Davide Orsini
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2022-05-24
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0822988852
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1972, the US Navy installed a base for nuclear submarines in the Archipelago of La Maddalena off the northeastern shore of Sardinia, Italy. In response, Italy established a radiation surveillance program to monitor the impact of the base on the environment and public health. In the first systematic study of nuclear expertise in Italy, Davide Orsini focuses on the ensuing technopolitical disputes concerning the role and safety of US nuclear submarines in the Mediterranean Sea from the Cold War period to the closure of the naval base in 2008. His book follows the struggles of different groups—including local residents of the archipelago, US Navy personnel, local administrators, Italian experts, and politicians—to define nuclear submarines as either imperceptible threats, much like radiocontamination, or efficient machines at the service of liberty and freedom. Unlike inland nuclear power plants, vividly present and visible with their tall cooling towers and reactor containers, the mobility and invisibility of submarines contributed to an ambivalence about their nature, perpetuating the idea of nuclear exceptionalism. In Italy, they symbolized objects in constant motion, easily removable at the first sign of potential harm. Orsini demonstrates how these mobile sources of hazard posed special challenges for both expert assessments and public understandings of risk, and in contexts outside the Anglo-Saxon world, where unique social power dynamics held sway over the outcome of technopolitical controversies.
Author: Wallace T. Martin
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 79
ISBN-13: 0160921600
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArming The Fleet (ATF) Highlights includes very current and basic information on the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) and is 159 pages in ePub file format (76 pages in print) versus the larger comprehensive book which contains 402 pages in ePub file format (208 pages in print) and covers historical accomplishments from 1943 to today. All data contained in the smaller Highlights is included in the larger book.
Author: David Vine
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2015-08-25
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1627791698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerican military bases encircle the globe; from Italy to the Indian Ocean, from Japan to Honduras. The far-reaching story of the perils of the U. S. military bases and what these bases say about America today.
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Publisher: U.S. Navy Seabee Museum
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Total Pages: 550
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Vine
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2011-01-23
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 0691149836
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavid Vine recounts how the British & US governments created the Diego Garcia base, making the native Chagossians homeless in the process. He details the strategic significance of this remote location & also describes recent efforts by the exiles to regain their territory.
Author: Institute for National Strategic Studies
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Published: 2011-12-27
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780160897634
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTells the story of the growing Chinese Navy - The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) - and its expanding capabilities, evolving roles and military implications for the USA. Divided into four thematic sections, this special collection of essays surveys and analyzes the most important aspects of China's navel modernization.