Download or read book Destroyer Down written by Arthur Evans and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Beneath the Waves provides a thorough history of the sinkings of Britain’s destroyer warships during World War II. His Majesty’s destroyers had a long and costly war. Some eight thousand destroyer men did not survive. At the height of the war the Royal navy was commissioning four new vessels a month, which was only sufficient to replace those which had been sunk or severely damaged. This outstanding book contains the details of the majority of the sinkings that occurred throughout World War II and includes many firsthand accounts from the officers and crew involved.

Download or read book Star Wars Adventures Destroyer Down written by Scott Beatty and published by Star Wars. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On sweltering Jakku in the days before The Force Awakens, explore with Rey as she races to uncover the secrets inside a crashed Star Destroyer! Swallowed by the shifting sands, the Imperial Star Destroyer Spectral has been lost for two decades, giving rise to rumors of hauntings and buried treasure. But an epic sandstorm has revealed the ruins of the starship, and renowned scavenger Rey now leads the race to claim whatever lies within! Also includes a backup story depicting the battle of Jakku, revealing how the Star Destroyer Spectral met its fate during the last days of the Empire. For fans of all ages and with with a mix of old and new characters, Star Wars Adventures will appeal to Jedi everywhere, Master and Padawan alike!

Download or read book On a Destroyer s Bridge written by Holloway Halstead Frost and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1930.

Download or read book On A Destroyer s Bridge written by Commander Holloway H. Frost USN and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the eyes and ears of the fleet, the Destroyers perform a vital role to any naval force; often given the dirtiest jobs of any task force, the Destroyer is the workhorse ship. In this fascinating volume, written by Commander Holloway H. Frost USN in 1935, the author describes how to best handle a flush deck destroyer in a variety of situations. Richly illustrated with diagrams Commander Holloway offers sage advice and reveals the secrets of the seaborne Destroyer, from formation cruising to handling the ship in heavy weather.

Download or read book The Dreadnought Boys Aboard a Destroyer written by Captain Wilbur Lawton and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Dreadnought Boys Aboard a Destroyer by Captain Wilbur Lawton

Download or read book Destroyer Battles written by Robert Stem and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fast, manoeuvrable and heavily armed, destroyers were the most aggressive surface warships of the twentieth century. Although originally conceived as a defensive screen to protect the main battlefleet from torpedo attack, the gamekeeper soon turned poacher, and became primarily a weapon of offence. As such they were involved in many hard-fought battles, using both torpedoes and guns, especially with enemy vessels of the same kind. This book recounts some of the most significant, spectacular or unusual actions in the history of destroyer warfare, from the first employment of torpedo craft during the Russo-Japanese War to the recent terrorist attack on USS Cole. With individual chapters devoted to each incident, the book may be read as a series of dramatic narratives, but each reflects a development in the tactics or technology, so taken as a whole the book amounts to a complete history of the destroyer from an unusual and previously neglected angle.

Download or read book Destroyer Squadron 23 written by Ken Jones and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Destroyer Squadron 23 is the epic account of Commodore Arleigh Burke and the men and ships under his command in the South Pacific in World War II. Burke's leadership skills and innovative tactics, described in detail in the book, proved crucial to the U.S. defeat of the Japanese navy in the Pacific.

Download or read book Destroyer Down written by Scott Beatty and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swallowed by the shifting sands, the Imperial Star Destroyer Spectral has been lost for two decades, giving rise to rumors of hauntings and buried treasure. But an epic sandstorm has revealed the ruins of the starship, and renowned scavenger Rey now

Download or read book Kamikaze Destroyer USS Hugh W Hadley DD774 written by Jeffrey R. Veesenmeyer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merriam Press World War 2 History. The Hadley was a destroyer which served in the U.S. Navy and in early May 1945 was assigned to radar picket duty at Okinawa. On 11 May, a large force of Japanese aircraft attacked. Hadley fought off these attackers, but not without damage to itself. Hadley fought on, but was hit by a bomb and three kamikaze aircraft. Hadley shot down a record 23 aircraft that day and aided in splashing many others, but lost 30 crew members. A determined crew kept her afloat and she was towed back to the States. This new book by a relative of a crew member killed that day off Okinawa, tells the story of the ship, and that fateful day, through the words of many of the survivors, which the author interviewed. This is not just a story about a ship, but about the men that made that ship a legend in the annals of Navy history. 9 appendices, bibliography, 112 photos, 7 illustrations, 6 maps.

Download or read book Destroyer Captain written by Roger Hill and published by Periscope Publishing Ltd.. This book was released on 1975 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an account of what it was like to command a destroyer during World War II. Spanning 1942 to 1945, Hill commanded HMS Ledbury during the tragedy of Arctic convoy PQ17 and played an outstanding role in Operation Pedestal. The pressures of command and the strain of years of continual fighting are conveyed here.

Download or read book Down to the Sea written by Bruce Henderson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “World War II produced so many compelling stories that even students of that momentous conflict are apt to discover we’ve missed whole vital episodes. Down to the Sea, about a devastating 1944 Pacific typhoon that sank three destroyers and cost 756 American sailors their lives, is just such an eye-opener.” — New York Post From the New York Times bestselling author of Sons and Soldiers, an epic story opening at the hour the Greatest Generation went to war on December 7, 1941, and following four U.S. Navy ships and their crews in the Pacific until their day of reckoning three years later with a far different enemy: a deadly typhoon. In December 1944, while supporting General MacArthur’s invasion of the Philippines, Admiral William “Bull” Halsey neglected the Law of Storms—the unofficial bible of all seamen since the days of sail—placing the mighty U.S. Third Fleet in harm’s way. One of the most powerful fighting fleets ever assembled under any flag, the Third Fleet sailed directly into the largest storm the U.S. Navy had ever encountered—a maelstrom of 90-foot seas and 160-mph winds. More men were lost and ships sunk and damaged than in most combat engagements in the Pacific. The final toll: 3 ships sunk, 28 ships damaged, 146 aircraft destroyed, and 756 men lost at sea. In all, 92 survivors from the three sunken ships (each carrying a crew of about 300) were rescued, some after spending up to 80 hours in the water. Scores more had made it off their sinking ships only to perish in the monstrous seas; some from injuries and exhaustion, others snatched away by circling sharks before their horrified shipmates. In the farflung rescue operations Bruce Henderson finds some of the story’s truest heroes, exhibiting selflessness, courage, and even defiance. One badly damaged ship, whose Naval Reserve skipper disobeyed an admiral’s orders to abandon the search, singlehandedly saved 55 lives. Drawing on extensive interviews with nearly every living survivor and rescuer, many families of lost sailors, transcripts and other records from two naval courts of inquiry, ships’ logs and action reports, personal letters, and diaries, Bruce Henderson offers the most thorough and riveting account to date of one of the greatest naval dramas of World War II.

Download or read book First Down Kentucky written by Ralph Delahaye Paine and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book South Pacific Destroyer written by Estate of R S Crenshaw and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today only a select few know firsthand what it is like to feel their ship shudder from the blast of their own guns, watch enemy guns flash back, and see friendly ships erupt in flames. Russell Crenshaw is one of those few. His riveting account of the savage night battle for the Solomon Islands in early 1943 offers readers a unique insider’s perspective from the decks of one of the destroyers that bore the brunt of the struggle. Russell Crenshaw was a gunnery officer on the USS Maury. His vivid, balanced, and detailed narrative includes the Battle of Tassafarounga in November 1942 and Vella Gulf in August 1943, actions that earned his warship a Presidential Unit Citation and sixteen battle stars. Crenshaw also discusses the impact of radar and voice radio, the shortcomings of U.S. torpedoes and gunfire, and the devastating effectiveness of Japan’s super torpedo.

Download or read book Kwakiutl Texts written by Franz Boas and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Condition Red Destroyer Action In The South Pacific Illustrated Edition written by Commander F. J. Bell and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Second World War In The Pacific Illustration Pack – 152 maps, plans and photos. Commander Frederick Bell recounts his wartime experiences on the USS G (Grayson) during the Pacific War. “CONDITION RED” was an expression that we used to indicate the imminence of any type of engagement. Aboard the G it was a colloquialism that served to express the conviction that the next few hours or days or weeks were going to be packed with action. We first heard it soon after we arrived in the Solomons, where the term was used on Guadalcanal and Tulagi to indicate the approach of the enemy, and when our voice radio blared out the words we went to General Quarters and prepared to greet the Tokyo Express or the Zeros and Mitsubishis when they came within view. Little has been written of the part that our destroyers are playing in the Pacific War, where they are called upon to fulfil such a variety of missions that they have become multipurpose ships, engaging in any form of combat. Because we lacked suitable escort ships we used destroyers to protect convoys as well as to guard our combatant Task Forces. We used them to bombard enemy shore positions and to carry bombs and aviation gasoline and stores to Guadalcanal during the lean weeks early in our campaign in those far-distant seas. By nature as well as by name, the purpose of the destroyer is wholly offensive. Bantamweights in comparison with the great battlewagons, they pack a punch out of all proportion to their size. They are triple-threat weapons, built to strike at any enemy on or over or under the sea. In the words of Rear Admiral Tisdale, “They are the fightingest thing afloat.”

Download or read book 200 000 Miles Aboard the Destroyer Cotten written by Charles Snelling Robinson and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Fitting Out -- 2. Shakedown Cruise -- 3. To Pearl Harbor and the Pacific Fleet -- 4. Tarawa: Operation Galvanic -- 5. Independent Duties in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands -- 6. Operation Flintlock -- 7. To Espiritu Santo -- 8. Fifth Fleet Operations in the Southwest Pacific -- 9. Majuro -- 10. Personnel Changes -- 11. Operation Forager and the Battle of the Philippine Sea -- 12. Task Force 58 Returns to Saipan -- 13. The Cotten and Destroyer Squadron 50 Screen the Battle Line -- 14. Command Changes -- 15. Admiral Halsey Trains the Battle Line -- 16. Third Fleet Operations Prior to the Battle of Leyte Gulf -- 17. The Battle of Leyte Gulf -- 18. Action off Cape Engafio -- 19. Kamikazes Enter the Pacific War -- 20. Kamikazes: Midget Subs and More Planes -- 21. The Great Pacific Typhoon, December 1944 -- 22. In the South China Sea -- 23. Air Strikes against Tokyo: Iwo lima D Day -- 24. A Second Strike against the Tokyo Area -- 25. Iwo Jima: March 5-13, 1945 -- 26. Encounter with Japanese Patrol Vessels -- 27. Iwo Jima Secured -- 28. Shore Leave -- 29. Hunters Point -- 30. Stateside Duty Comes to an End -- 31. The War Ends -- 32. Transition -- 33. The Tokyo Bay Occupation Force -- 34. Tokyo -- 35. The Cotten Acquires a Kamikaze Speedboat -- 36. The Tokyo Bay Roadstead -- 37. Atami -- 38. The House of the Golden Wave -- 39. Squadron 50 Leaves the Occupation Force -- Epilogue -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.

Download or read book Destroyer Actions written by Harry Plevy and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using eye-witness accounts of those who participated, Destroyer Actions focuses on the human side of naval operations during the first eight months of the Second World War. Lucid treatment of the political, strategic and tactical background to naval operations allows the reader to understand the pivotal role played by the destroyer during the so called ‘Phoney War’ period.