Download or read book General Instructions for Commanding Officers of Naval Armed Guards on Merchant Ships 1944 written by United States. Navy Department and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Instructions for Commanding Officers written by United States. Navy Department and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Instructions for Commanding Officers of Naval Armed Guards on Merchant Ships 1943 written by United States. Navy Department and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ordnance and Gunnery Instructions for Naval Armed Guards on Merchant Ships 1944 written by United States. Navy Department and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Merchant Navy Seaman Pocket Manual 1939 1945 written by Chris McNab and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2018-12-19 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A view into the world of the intrepid but often forgotten seamen who helped the Allies win WWII. They may not have worn gold braid or medals, but the Allied Merchant Navies in World War II provided a vital service to their countries’ war efforts. Hundreds of thousands of British and American sailors—some as young as fourteen—faced considerable risks to maintain an essential flow of armaments, equipment, and food: submarines, mines, armed raiders and destroyers, aircraft, kamikaze pilots, and the weather itself. Life on board a merchant ship could be tense, with hour after hour spent battling high seas, never knowing if a torpedo was about to hit. In the Arctic convoys, sailors had to cope with extreme cold and ice. But there was also comradeship and more open society than was the norm at the time, free of distinctions of class, race, religion, age, or color, and a mixture of nationalities, especially in the British fleet. The Merchant Navy Seaman Pocket Manual provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of these brave sailors, many of whom did not return. Drawing on documents, diagrams, and illustrations from British and American archives, it combines information on training, gunnery, convoys, and antisubmarine techniques with dramatic personal accounts. Covering the Battle of the Atlantic, the Arctic Convoys, and the Pacific, this book pitches the reader into the heart of this vital but often forgotten arena of WWII.
Download or read book Maritime Authorization and Oversight 1980 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Merchant Marine and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ordnance and Gunnery Instructions for Naval Armed Guard on Merchant Ships 1942 written by United States. Navy Department and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ordnance and Gunnery Instructions for Naval Armed Guard on Merchant Ships 1941 written by United States. Navy Department and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ordnance and Gunnery Instructions for Naval Armed Guards on Merchant Ships 1943 written by United States. Navy Department and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ordnance and Gunnery Instructions for Naval Armed Guards on Merchant Ships 1945 written by United States. Navy Department and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Merchant Vessels of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memorandum to Commanding Officers of Naval Armed Guards on Temporary Duty Armed Guard Center New Orleans La written by United States. Naval Armed Guard Center (New Orleans) and published by . This book was released on 194? with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Merchant Ship Shapes written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Liberty Ship written by Sherod Cooper and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only book devoted exclusively to a single merchantman's seagoing career during World War II, this work describes the activities of the Liberty ship John W. Brown and of the Merchant Marine and Navy Armed Guard crews who manned the ship. As the author demonstrates in this thoroughly researched account, Liberty ships carried about two-thirds of the vital cargoes transported overseas during the war and played an indispensable role in landing and supplying the troops that defeated the Axis powers in Europe and Asia. This book is based on logs, official documents, and reports in the National Archives, on the collection of unpublished Navy administrative histories in the Navy Department library, and on diaries, letters, and recollections of men who sailed on the Brown. The insights derived from the author's interviews and correspondence with a number of the Brown's wartime Merchant and Navy Armed Guard crewmen add a personal dimension to the narrative. A fine collection of photographs supplements the text.
Download or read book Killing Shore written by K. A. Nelson and published by Brookline Books. This book was released on 2024-04-04 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shocking story of Nazi Germany’s naval assault in American waters, told through the eyes of seafarers who experienced it off the Jersey Shore. It is January 1942. Six weeks after the United States entered World War II, Imperial Japan is annihilating American forces across the Far East while the Nazis stand triumphant over much of Europe. Adolf Hitler’s forces are about to commence an assault along the East Coast of the United States, but this “Atlantic Pearl Harbor” would prove far more devastating than Japan’s attack on Hawaii. The wolves are closing in, and few Americans realize their beaches and coastal cities are about to witness the worst naval defeat in American history. The Western Hemisphere holds the key to victory for the beleaguered Allies, but only if the vast economic and military resources of North and South America can be carried across the Atlantic by Allied merchant ships. These civilian-manned cargo vessels are the backbone of the American war economy and the lifeline enabling Britain and the Soviet Union to survive—but Hitler’s favorite admiral also knows this, and he has set in motion a plan of unprecedented boldness. Germany’s dreaded submarines, or “U-boats,” are going to the United States. The fiery months that followed would pit American servicemen against German U-boat sailors in a desperate struggle that stained East Coast waters with oil and blood. In the crosshairs of this deadly cat-and-mouse game was a stalwart contingent of civilian mariners who crewed the tankers and freighters supplying the war against the Axis Powers. Thousands of them would perish as hundreds of merchant ships were sunk. Every American coastal state became a battlefront in 1942, and the events that transpired off New Jersey illustrate the perils and brutality of this forgotten campaign. The seafloor along the Garden State is today strewn with shipwrecks that bear witness to the innumerable ways to die faced by friend and foe alike only miles from the boardwalk. Though these seafarers’ lives were forfeit, the battle they fought would decide the fates of millions.
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