Download or read book The Devil Boats written by C.J. Skamarakas and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PT boats loom large in the popular imagination of World War II. In March 1942, a PT boat evacuated Gen. Douglas MacArthur, his family, and top staff from the Philippines, which inspired the war movie They Were Expendable, directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne. John F. Kennedy became a war hero while commanding PT-109, which collided with a Japanese destroyer and was sunk in August 1943. But the story of PT boats has never been told in the depth and detail that their exemplary service deserves. Naval historian C. J. Skamarakas uses one Pacific PT boat squadron to tell the story of PT boats in action in World War II. Eighty feet long, PT boats were designed to launch torpedoes against enemy ships five and ten times their own size. But defects in the torpedoes and the boats’ speed and maneuverability ultimately shifted the boats’ mission to patrolling and breaking up Japanese shipping and reinforcements. In the waters of the Southwest Pacific as part of MacArthur’s offensives in New Guinea and the Philippines, Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 25 completed these missions and also executed other operations for which they weren’t specifically trained, including inserting commandos behind enemy lines, air-sea rescue, raids on enemy positions, reconnaissance of potential sites for amphibious landings, coordination of air strikes in support of ground forces, meetings with guerrilla leaders, recovery of prisoners of war, diversionary activities, and psychological operations. Today we would call many of their missions “special ops.” The Japanese called PT boats “mosquitoes” and “devil boats.” The Devil Boats recounts the unique contributions of one motor torpedo boat squadron and through it tells the story of PT boats in the Pacific War. With drama and excitement, as well as careful attention to detail, the book fills a void in the history of the U.S. Navy in World War II.
Download or read book Devil Boats written by William B. Breuer and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The PT boat was a class of motor torpedo boats used by the United States during the Second World War. Armed with a 40mm antiaircraft gun, two 20mm antiaircraft guns and four torpedo tubes, their agility and speed consistently bested even the most outlandish expectations. Against Japan, they figure prominently in some of the best-known feats of heroism of the entire war. In Devil Boats, the reader is right on board, buffeted by the spray of the crashing Pacific minutes after the Pearl Harbor disaster as a PT boat brings down the first enemy plane. And there again as PT boats, their engines muffled, steal along on an unforgiving ocean to sink a warship, blow up a supply barge, carry a sabotage team past enemy lines, or effect another extraordinary rescue of a downed Allied pilot. In instance upon instance, the PT boats and their crews performed deeds demanding incredible courage and skill, pitting their plywood craft against the force of the angry sea, or the might of ships hundreds of times their own size. Among their legendary exploits - General MacArthur being spirited off besieged Corregidor; Philippine president Quezon's "kidnapping" to Australia; and the unforgettable heroism of a wounded John F. Kennedy and his fearless PT-109.
Download or read book Devil Boats written by William Breuer and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Devil Boats written by Michael Aye and published by Boson Books. This book was released on 2024-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war in Europe is still going on. Japan has bombed Pearl Harbor. Suddenly it's World War II. General Douglas MacArthur, surrounded by the Japanese, is saved from the jaws of death by Lieutenant Bulkley and his small group of PT boats. These small, heavily gunned wooden boats are sent to do battle with the might of the Japanese forces. This Mosquito Fleet was so successful that the Japanese dubbed them "Devil Boats." Young Matt Blue and his hometown friend, Sidney Hinson, are suddenly waging war against the overwhelming odds of Japan's might in the South Pacific, in these wooden Devil Boats.
Download or read book The Devil Boat written by David Stuart Leslie and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jack and the Devil Boats written by Karen Kersting and published by Pel. This book was released on 2019 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1940s New Orleans, young Jack helps with paper and scrap metal drives while learning about the torpedo boats his father helps build, and when he is an adult, helps to restore one. Text is interspersed with facts about the boats and World War II.
Download or read book Devil Boat written by Timeless Media Group and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The herioc stories of the PT boats and the attempt to restore PT 658.
Download or read book Motor Boat written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Devil s Boat written by Giuseppe Bufalari and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1971 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the day that they buy their own boat, a coral diver and his son sense it is cursed by the devil.
Download or read book Devil Boats Against the Rising Sun written by Donald R Treichler and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late 1941 war raged in Europe while Japan and the United States engaged in tense negotiations over whether there would be war or peace in the Pacific. Recently reporting to Motor Torpedo Squadron 3 in the Philippines, little did LTjg Cliff Lane US Navy realize that this handful of wooden PT Boats soon would become orphans of war. Captivated by vivacious navy nurse Ashley Harper, their budding romance was soon challenged by the winds of war. When the Japanese struck, the small fleet was forced to move south leaving only a half dozen Devil Boats to face the might of the Imperial Japanese Navy .
Download or read book The Devil Boat written by David Stuart Leslie and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book DEVIL S BACKBONE THE written by Jonathan Daniels and published by Pelican Publishing Company. This book was released on 1985-12-30 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a history as dark and bloody as any in our nation, the Natchez Trace has always been more than just a thoroughfare. Growing out of a need for a return route for flatboats that floated down the Mississippi, the Trace winds up from Natchez, Mississippi, through Alabama and ends in Nashville, Tennessee. From the start, the Natchez Trace was alive with rugged pioneers, politicians, ladies of fashion, settlers, soldiers, and robbers. You'll learn about the trail and the notable figures who traversed it, such as Aaron Burr, Andrew Jackson, George Washington, Daniel Boone, and Meriwether Lewis, whose death on the Trace is still a mystery. Leading all the way to Texas, the Natchez Trace was the road for troops going to the Battle of New Orleans, the path walked by the men who were to die at the Alamo, and an escape route for slaves. The Devil's Backbone is chock full of the ever-changing parade of travelers along the Natchez Trace. The author tells the story of the people who built America, crossing a wilderness to create a nation.
Download or read book U Boats off the Outer Banks Shadows in the Moonlight written by Jim Bunch and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From January to July 1942, more than seventy-five ships sank to North Carolina's "Graveyard of the Atlantic" off the coast of the Outer Banks. German U-boats sank ships in some of the most harrowing sea fighting close to America's shore. Germany's Operation Drumbeat, led by Admiral Karl Donitz, brought fear to the local communities. A Standard oil tanker sank just sixty miles from Cape Hatteras. The U-85 was the first U-boat sunk by American surface forces, and local divers later discovered a rare Enigma machine aboard. Author Jim Bunch traces the destructive history of world war on the shores of the Outer Banks.
Download or read book Devil s Due written by Taylor Anderson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Taylor Anderson continues the thrilling Destroyermen series of alternate history and military strategy, as the conflict is about to become terrifyingly personal.... Captain Matt Reddy and the crew of the USS Walker have been fighting for their lives ever since their ship was swept from the Pacific to another world and they became embroiled in a deadly conflict between their Lemurian allies and the ravening Grik. But things are about to get worse. With Reddy’s family and allies held prisoner by the mad General Kurokawa, the mysterious League and evil Dominion plotting schemes of their own, and the Grik trying to build their swarm and concentrate power, Reddy faces danger on all sides. Although desperate to confront Kurokawa, Captain Reddy fears he’s subordinating the war effort for personal reasons. But Kurokawa is too dangerous to be left alone. With the mighty League battleship Savoie at his command, he plots a terrible vengeance against Reddy and his tiny, battered destroyer. The stage is set for a devastating cataclysm, and Reddy and his allies will have to risk everything to protect what they hold dear.
Download or read book US Patrol Torpedo Boats written by Gordon L. Rottman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN E-BOOK. Motor torpedo boat development began in the early 1900s, and the vessels first saw service during World War I. However, it was not until the late 1930s that the US Navy commenced the development of the Patrol Torpedo or PT boat. The PT boat was designed for attacking larger warships with torpedoes using its 'stealth' ability, high-speed and small size to launch and survive these attacks – although they were employed in a wide variety of other missions, including rescuing General MacArthur and his entourage from the Philippines. This book examines the design and development of these unique craft, very few of which survive today, and goes on to examine their role and combat deployment in World War II.
Download or read book The Devil s Admiral written by Frederick Ferdinand Moore and published by T. Langton. This book was released on 1913 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
