Download or read book The Hooligan Navy written by Wesley E. Hall and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-06-17 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hooligan Navy is about a Coast Guard that had just gone through a world war as part of the U. S. Navy. The story focuses upon the experiences of a young radio operator who served on the CGC Alert, the CGC Bramble, the CGC Chautauqua, the CGC Escanaba, the CGC Storis, and the CGC Taney. The action begins on the West Coast, moves to Baltimore and the Coast Guard Yard, travels down to Norfolk and Panama, and ends up back on the West Coast and in Alaska. It is a humorous book about a young ex-Navy sailor who found out the hard way that the Coast Guard is a very small outfit where the officers all knew each other and shared what they knew about recalcitrant swabs.
Download or read book The Hooligan Navy written by H. N. Houston and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hooligans written by P. T. Deutermann and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping and authentic World War II naval adventure by a master storyteller The Hooligans fictionalizes the little-known but remarkable exploits of “The Hooligan Navy” that fought in the Pacific theatre of World War II. Loosely-organized in fast moving squadrons, PT (patrol torpedo) boats were the pesky nemesis of the formidable Japanese navy, dubbed “the mosquito fleet” and “devil boats” for their daring raids against warships, tankers, and transport ships. After the Pearl Harbor raid plunges America into war, young surgical resident Lincoln Anderson enlists in the Navy medical corps. His first deployment comes in August 1942 at Guadalcanal, when after a brutal sea battle and the landing of Marines on the island, Anderson finds himself triaging hundreds of casualties under relentless Japanese air and land attacks. But with the navy short of doctors, soon Anderson is transferred to serve aboard a PT boat. From Guadalcanal to the Solomon Islands to the climactic, tide-turning battle of Leyte Gulf, Anderson and the crew members of his boat confront submarines and surface ships, are attacked from air by the dreaded Kawanishi flying boats, and hunted by destroyers. In the end, Anderson must lead a division of boats in a seemingly-impossible mission against a Japanese battleship formation—and learn the true nature of his character. Informed by P. T. Deutermann’s own experience as a commander of a patrol gunboat in Vietnam, The Hooligans is first-rate military adventure fiction.
Download or read book The Hooligan Navy Book Two written by Randy Schock and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remember somebody was about to be thrown down the 'you know what' stairs? "I was standing outside the building when McKee and Lapal came along, and they said "What's the matter kid?" I told them what happened. "Okay go on back up." I got almost to the top of the 2nd landing when the gorilla stepped out but, before he could say anything, M&L said, "He's with us." The gorilla took one look at M&L, and then he did a 180 and went back inside. M&L were both about 6 foot 2, or 6 foot 3, and about 225, all muscle, no steroids in these guys. After that I had no more problems getting into the 'Watering Hole." "Guardian Angels," Oh Yea! The crew was told that there were about 167 inhabitants on Bikini. We soon noticed that the women were completely naked, and the men wore only lion clothes, this soon ended after the fleet moved in. Both male and female Bikinians, started to wear a wraparound type of skirt and the inhabitants were soon moved to a compound." So my other Marshall Island buddy from another RWS Report, says that he remembers, when his own stepmother and his pal saw his other Hooligan Navy buddy right here in the hospital. Hum. Okay. He may have been recuperating alright, but not from the army, but prison. Woe. A few years later Roselli was instrumental in ensuring my older brother was safe from any undue harm at the hands of a freight yard railroad bull. The I-25, A Midget Submarine and California's Channel Islands. Early in World War II nine Type B-1 aircraft equipped long range Japanese Imperial Submarines were strategically located along the North American Pacific west coast in areas considered best suited to attack shipping lanes most commonly used by American merchantmen. The nine submarines in numerical order and their locations were: I-9 Cape Blanco, Oregon I-10 San Diego, California I-15 San Francisco Bay, California I-17 Cape Mendocino, California I-19 Los Angeles Harbor, California I-21 Estero Bay, California I-23 Monterey Bay, California I-25 Columbia River, marks the border dividing Washington state and Oregon I-26 Strait of Juan de Fuca, U.S. and Canada international boundary Official records cataloging the movements of the I-25 clearly indicate she traveled from her usual Pacific northwest theater of operation, as listed above, to at least as far south as Point Arguello along the California coast. Although no official reason for doing so has ever been given, intermingled with the I-25's timeline of operation is a strong substantiating co-factor that a Japanese midget submarine possibly holed up on one of the Channel Islands not far from Point Arguello during the same period the I-25 was in the south, albeit extrapolated from a rather unconventional source.
Download or read book Hooligan s Navy written by Rinald C. Steketee and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hooligan's Navy is a collection of short fictional stories about The United States Coast Guard. Some of the stories, although somewhat a stretch of the imagination, are taken from actual experience.
Download or read book The Hooligan Navy Book One written by Randy Schock and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-20 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After replenishing in San Pedro Bay, Leyte, Current arrived off Okinawa 2 June 1945 for salvage operations aiding the many ships damaged by Japanese air attack, and those sailing in the 3rd and 5th Fleet raids on the Japanese homeland. She served ships of the occupation forces at Okinawa until 5 January 1946, when she sailed by way of Sasebo, Japan to San Francisco, arriving 27 February. Pete Irwin can repeat all of the Navy Language of the USS Current ARS 22 because the Navy is in his own soul forever. Young Pete Irvin continues here, with his first recollections, of going into Pearl Harbor for the very first time. "We were in Pearl Harbor for a short period where we took on all kinds of stores, and food stuff. We also took in a number of new crew members. Larry Leighty, who enlisted in 1945 came aboard. We left Pearl Harbor, on April 16, 1946, again the crew was not told where they were going until we cleared Diamond Head. Then we were told our destination was Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands for the Atomic Bomb Test known as 'Operation Crossroads.'" Between 15 April 1946 and 22 July 1947 Current served with JTF-1 on Operation 'Crossroads,' the atomic weapons tests in the Marshall Islands. She returned to San Diego 23 August 1947 and was placed out of commission in reserve 9 February 1948. Recommissioned 10 October 1951, Current sailed from Long Beach 7 December and arrived at Pearl Harbor a week later. Following a 1952 tour of duty in the Far East during the Korean War, she carried out an extensive salvage operation on the merchant ship SS Quartette off Midway, saving approximately 2,000 tons of grain between 23 December 1952 and 6 March 1953. During her 1953 tour of duty off Korea, Current re-floated the stranded LST-578 at Cheju and in a lengthy and difficult operation salvaged the stern half of SS Cornhusker Mariner which had gone aground off Pusan. Her next Far Eastern tour in 1954 and 1955 included duty with the Taiwan Patrol, visits to Japanese ports, and participation in the "Passage to Freedom" evacuation of refugees from North Vietnam. After alterations to fit her for duty in the Arctic, Current arrived at Seattle, Wash., 25 June 1955. She carried construction equipment and materials into the poorly charted waters along the northern coast of Canada and Alaska from 15 July to 30 September, when she returned to Pearl Harbor for repairs. She voyaged to Kwajalein to inspect the work on mooring buoys between 16 January and 22 February 1956. Then she arrived in Seattle 29 June to join a convoy carrying supplies to stations of the Distant Early Warning line from 15 July to 10 September, returning to Pearl Harbor for local operations. During her 1957 deployment to the Western Pacific, Current took part in a mine recovery training exercise in the Marianas; surveyed and blasted a channel in Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea; salvaged aircraft and vessels off Japan; and performed a mercy mission by treating a Japanese diver stricken with the bends off Honshu. After local operations at Pearl Harbor, she returned to the Par East to operate with destroyers off Japan and with the 7th Fleet in the Taiwan Straits from October 1957 to February 1958. From July to December 1958 Current operated on diving training duty at Pusan, Korea and salvaged several vessels and aircraft in Japanese waters.
Download or read book Hooligan s Navy written by rinald steketee and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-09 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hooligan's Navy is a collection of fictional short stories that could have happened, with a little stretch of the imagination, to actual sailors in the performance of their duties on actual ships or shore stations.
Download or read book The Hooligan Navy written by Scott Baron and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese called them "Devil Boats" or "Green Dragons". The Germans called them "Schnellboots". Americans called them "The Mosquito Fleet" or "The Hooligan Navy". But Patrol Torpedo boats, popularly known as "PT boats" or more accurately Motor Torpedo Boats (MTB) were small, fast, and highly maneuverable small craft used by the United States Navy in World War II. Initially hampered at the beginning of the war by ineffective torpedoes, limited armament, and their comparatively fragile construction, they performed admirably in the Pacific, Atlantic and the Mediterranean theaters of war and their daring tactics earned a durable place in the public imagination that remains strong into the 21st century. They are the precursor of the Navy's fast attack craft used today. PT boats were primarily designed for high-speed torpedo attacks against much larger ships but would also fulfill a variety of vital roles. PT boats were also used to lay mines and smoke screens, search and rescue operations for downed aviators, and carried out intelligence and raider operations. However, following the Allies gaining air superiority during the daylight hours in various theaters, Japanese supply missions in the Pacific and German and Italian supply missions in the Mediterranean gradually shifted to ones that made use of barges in shallow waters. PT boats were more often deployed against barges rather than warships, which explained why most boats were retrofitted with machine guns and cannons. PT boats were the perfect weapons to counter barge traffic. PT's were in more frequent contact with the enemy, and at closer range, than any other type of surface craft. PT officers and enlisted men garnered two Medals of Honor, 22 Navy Crosses, 3 Distinguished Service Crosses, a Distinguished Service Medal, and numerous Silver Stars. On December 7, 1941, there were only 29 PT's in the fleet but by December 7, 1943, there were more than 29 squadrons Forty-three PT squadrons, each with 12 boats were formed during World War II by the U.S. Navy. PT boat duty was extremely dangerous, and the squadrons suffered an extremely high loss rate in the war. Of the 531 PT Boats in service during the war, a total of 99 were lost, or roughly 18.6%, with 32 lost to accidents or friendly fire, 27 were scuttled to prevent capture, 8 were rammed, 2 were destroyed by Kamikazes, 9 were destroyed by naval mines, 6 were sunk by enemy coastal artillery, 8 were strafed and 7 sunk by enemy naval gunfire. Since the end of WW II, and even before, PT Boats have become part of the popular culture and national imagination. In 1945, with the war still going on, John Ford, a captain in the US Naval Reserve, directed the film "They Were Expendable" starring Robert Montgomery, himself a Navy veteran of D-Day, and John Wayne, loosely based on PT-41 and other PT boats in the Philippines following Wake Island. The 1963 film "PT-109" starred Cliff Robertson as Lt. (jg) John F. Kennedy, a semi-biographical account of the then-president's war service in the Solomon Islands during WW II. In 1959, when a high school student asked Kennedy how he had become a war hero, he answered "It was easy - they sank my boat." . As President John F. Kennedy, who as a scrawny 25-year-old lieutenant had commanded the ill-fated PT-109 in the Solomon Islands in 1943 would later state: "PT boats were an embodiment of John Paul Jones' words: "I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way" and often expressed the opinion that PT boats were the 20th Century equivalent of the cavalry.
Download or read book Hooligan Navy Book Six written by Randy Schock and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pete Irvin and the men on the USS Current, like Larry Leighty and Bill Beach, Bob Toombs, Ra Vaura, Adams, Pennington, Butler, Haskell, Upton, Hilton, Kelly, Jim Golden, Garcia, Schultz, Fulton, Demuth, Ed Bock, Richard Hightower, Eldon Osmun, Jerry Spickler, Rick Shugert, Francylien 'Smitty' Smith, George Hartnagel, Tom Jarboe, Jerry Shepherd, John Bauer, Larry Baker, Mark Holmes, Jim O'Berry, Bob Arnold, Ron Brmley, Larry Goodman, Elmer Schnittker, Ray Rankin, Dick Shechan. At the moment I do not have the first names of some of the men, here, and when I get them I will add them in. Also on the USS ARS 22 Current would have been, Chief Warrant Lohme, who was the Current's Engineering Officer, and Clyde Carlton, MM2/c at one point was the Currents Chief Carpenter, but Pete said, he left, and Pete then became the head Carpenter.
Download or read book Minding the Helm written by Kevin P. Gilheany and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a boy growing up in New York City, Kevin P. Gilheany had two dreams: to join the Coast Guard, and to play the bagpipes. But by the time he finished high school he was overweight, had a drinking problem, and couldn’t swim. Undeterred by the doubts of the folks at home, he decided to enlist in the Coast Guard anyway. With great determination, and some divine intervention, he passed the swim test and graduated from boot camp, thus beginning an eventful and diverse twenty-year career in the 1980s and 1990s Coast Guard. He set a goal for himself to get command of his own patrol boat, and along the way he was involved in capturing drug smugglers, rescuing hundreds of Haitian migrants at sea, recovering Space Shuttle Challenger debris, surviving a “hooligan navy” experience on a Coast Guard workboat, coordinating search and rescue during the famed “Perfect Storm,” and leading armed boardings of ships following the terrorist attacks of 9/11. When he was asked by one of his men, who was dying from brain cancer, to play bagpipes at his retirement ceremony, Kevin started down a new path to have bagpipers officially recognized as part of the Coast Guard. This ultimately led a boy who couldn’t swim to fulfill both of his childhood dreams and leave a lasting legacy by founding the U.S. Coast Guard Pipe Band.
Download or read book Know Your PT Boat written by Bureau Of Ships and published by . This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exploits of the U.S. Navy's 'Patrol Torpedo' or PT Boat crews became famous during WWII. Known by the Japanese as "devil boats," the little PTs landed big blows on the enemy, sinking numerous ships and supply barges. They also laid mines, carried out intelligence operations, and performed search and rescue operations among other tasks. While the most famous boat of the war was PT-109, commanded by future President John F. Kennedy, PT-73 also gained fame as the star of the TV show McHale's Navy starring Ernest Borgnine. Originally created in 1945 by the Bureau of Ships, "Know Your PT Boat" was intended to educate the crews of motor torpedo boats about all aspects of PT operation and maintenance in the field. Filled with advice drawn from the battle-tested crews of the "mosquito fleet," and featuring hilarious (and sometimes impolite) cartoon illustrations, it's sometimes hard to believe this booklet was an official U.S. Navy publication. This softcover reprint features the original book in its entirety.
Download or read book A Measureless Peril written by Richard Snow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "A Measureless Peril, " the historian Richard Snow captures all the drama of the merciless contest between the quickly built U.S. warships and the ever-more cunning and lethal U-boats that controlled the sea lanes of the Atlantic during WWII.
Download or read book Kamikazes Corsairs and Picket Ships written by Robin L. Rielly and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2008-09-05 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of ferocious air and naval combat during the WWII Battle of Okinawa—drawn from primary sources and survivor interviews. This is the story of an overlooked yet significant aerial and naval battle during the American assault on Okinawa in the spring of 1945. While losses to America’s main fleet are well recorded, less well known is the terrific battle waged on the radar picket line, the fleet’s outer defense against Japanese marauders. Weaving together the experiences of the ships and their crews—drawn from ship and aircraft action reports, ship logs, and personal interviews—historian Robin L. Reilly recounts one of the most ferocious air and naval battles in history. The US fleet—and its accompanying airpower—was so massive that the Japanese could only rely on suicide attacks to inflict critical damage. Of the 206 ships that served on radar picket duty, twenty-nine percent were sunk or damaged by Japanese air attacks, making theirs the most hazardous naval surface duty in World War II. The great losses were largely due to relentless kamikaze attacks, but also resulted from the improper use of support gunboats, failure to establish land-based radar at the earliest possible time, the assignment of ships ill-equipped for picket duty, and, as time went on, crew fatigue. US air cover during the battle is also described in full, as squadrons dashed from their carriers and land bases to intercept the Japanese swarms, resulting in constant melees over the fleet.
Download or read book American Yachts in Naval Service written by Kenneth Howard Goldman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before there was a U.S. Navy, several Colonial navies were all-volunteer--both the crews and the vessels. From its beginnings through World War II, the Navy has relied on civilian sailors and their fast vessels to fill out its ranks of small combatants. Beginning with the birth of the yacht in the Netherlands in the 17th century , this illustrated history traces the development of yacht racing, the advent of combustion-engine power and the contribution privately owned vessels have made to national defense. Vessels conscripted during the Civil War served both the Union and Confederacy--sometimes changing sides after capture. The first USS Wanderer saw the slave trade from both sides of the law. Aboard the USS Sylph, Oscar-winning actor Ernest Borgnine fought the Third Reich's U-boats under sail. USS Sea Cloud made history as the first racially integrated ship in the Navy, three years before President Truman desegregated the military.
Download or read book The Red Circle written by Brandon Webb and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explosive, revealing, and intelligent, The Red Circle provides a uniquely personal glimpse into one of the most challenging and secretive military training courses in the world. Now including an excerpt from The Killing School: Inside the World's Deadliest Sniper Program BEFORE HE COULD FORGE A BAND OF ELITE WARRIORS... HE HAD TO BECOME ONE HIMSELF. Brandon Webb's experiences in the world's most elite sniper corps are the stuff of legend. From his grueling years of training in Naval Special Operations to his combat tours in the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan, The Red Circle provides a rare and riveting look at the inner workings of the U.S. military through the eyes of a covert operations specialist. Yet it is Webb's distinguished second career as a lead instructor for the shadowy "sniper cell" and Course Manager of the Navy SEAL Sniper Program that trained some of America's finest and deadliest warriors-including Marcus Luttrell and Chris Kyle-that makes his story so compelling. Luttrell credits Webb's training with his own survival during the ill-fated 2005 Operation Redwing in Afghanistan. Kyle went on to become the U.S. military's top marksman, with more than 150 confirmed kills. From a candid chronicle of his student days, going through the sniper course himself, to his hair-raising close calls with Taliban and al Qaeda forces in the northern Afghanistan wilderness, to his vivid account of designing new sniper standards and training some of the most accomplished snipers of the twenty-first century, Webb provides a rare look at the making of the Special Operations warriors who are at the forefront of today's military.
Download or read book Our Navy the Standard Publication of the U S Navy written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
