Download or read book United States Submarine Losses written by Naval History Division and published by . This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: United States submarines compiled a tremendous record of achievement during World War II, but they paid heavily for their successes. A total of 52 submarines were lost, including 48 sunk directly or indirectly by enemy action. The personnel losses - 374 officers and 3,131 operational enlisted men - represented 16 percent of the officers and 13 percent of the enlisted men in the "silent service." Although relatively meager compared to Germany's losses of 700 to 800 subs and the 128 lost by Japan, this roll call of honor was still higher than that for other types of Allied ships. Three valuable appendices list the subs lost by Germany, Japan, and Italy."United States Submarine Losses: World War II" is a ship-by-ship description of each American sub lost at sea, including as many facts as can be determined regarding the circumstances of their sinking, as well as brief accounts of the combat accomplishments of each vessel and a list of their crew members at the time of their loss. These concise vignettes cover some of the most renowned submarines of the war, such as the Tang, which in its five patrols was credited with sinking 31 Japanese ships totaling 227,800 tons and damaging two, for a total of 4,100 tons - a record unexcelled among American subs. Some ships gained fame in the Navy for other reasons, such as the five Japanese destroyers sunk by the Harder - four on one patrol - "earning the reputation of being the Submarine Force's most terrible opponent of destroyers." This important book serves as a valuable reference work, an account of the often heroic efforts of U.S. Navy submarines in World War II, and a memorial tribute to the submariners who gave their lives for their country. 1946; reprinted 1963: 248 pages, ill.

Download or read book United States Submarine Losses World War II written by United States. Naval History Division and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book United States Submarine Losses in World War II written by United States Navy and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally printed in 1946 at the order of Vice Admiral Lockwood, Commander of Submarines, Pacific Fleet, United States Submarine Losses memorializes the 374 officers and 3131 men lost at sea between 1941 and 1945. It also chronicles the gallantry and persistence of these men, who under the most difficult conditions possible, performed critical missions and almost single-handedly decimated Japan¿s merchant fleet. ¿To those whose contribution meant the loss of sons, brothers or husbands in this war,¿ Admiral Lockwood noted in a speech given on Navy Day, 1945, ¿ I can assure you that they went down fighting and that their brothers who survived them took a grim toll of our savage enemy to avenge their deaths. May God rest their gallant souls.¿ This book is a testament to all those, living and dead, who served in the Silent Service in WWII. This enhanced, softbound edition features the entire original text and includes an official appendix of Axis submarine losses.

Download or read book U S Submarine Losses written by United States. Navy. Pacific Fleet. Submarine Force and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Official Chronology of the U S Navy in World War II written by Robert J Cressman and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 867 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years after the close of World War II, the U.S. Navy published a chronology of its operations in the war. Long out of print, the work focused on what were then defined as critical and decisive events. It ignored a multitude of combat actions as well as the loss or damage of many types of U.S. ships and craft—particularly auxiliaries, amphibious ships, and district craft—and entirely omitted the U.S. submarine campaign against Japanese shipping, This greatly expanded and updated study, now available in paperback with an index, goes far beyond the original work, drawing on information from more than forty additional years of historical research and writing. Massive, but well organized, it addresses operational aspects of the U.S. Navy’s war in every theater.

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Download or read book United States Submarine Losses World War II written by États-Unis. Naval history division and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book U s Submarine Losses World War II written by Us Pacific Fleet Comm Submarine Forces and published by Gardners Books. This book was released on 2014-03-12 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States Navy operated long range fleet submarines in the Pacific during World War II in what has often been referred to as a 'forgotten' campaign. In fact the operations of these submarines in the Pacific contributed greatly to the war against Japan, depriving her of much needed supplies as well as curtailing troop movements and reinforcements during the 'island war.'This book details the histories of all US submarine losses during the Second World War together with a report of all operational cruises carried out by each vessel. Each submarine is described from the first to the last war patrol, and actions and sinkings are included. There is also a list of all Medal of Honour recipients, and a crew list of men lost.This is an important book to anyone studying naval warfare in the Pacific during World War II, and serves as the basis for further study of the submarine campaign carried out by the US Navy in particular. Illustrated with a number of photographs of personnel and vessels, it will serve as a first class introduction to the subject.

Download or read book Japanese Submarine Losses to Allied Submarines in World War II written by Vernon J. Miller and published by Merriam Press. This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Lost Submarine written by Nancy Kenney and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book U S Submarine Losses World War II written by United States. Navy. Pacific Fleet. Submarine Force and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book U S Submarine Losses World War II written by United States. Navy. Pacific Fleet. Submarine Force and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book United States Submarine Men Lost During World War II written by Paul W. Wittmer and published by P.W. Wittmer Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of basic information on all the known men who died while in, or attached to, a command of the U.S. Submarine Service; including passengers lost on U.S. Submarines has been undertaken by a former U.S. Submarine Veteran of WWII, Paul W. Wittmer. A two volume work of more than 1,000 pages, embracing more than 3,600 United States Submarine Men Lost During World War II. The bulk of the work consists of a record on each man with his complete name, rate or rank, the boat or command he was associated with, his approximate date of death, his hometown, and the state where he enlisted from, his service number, awards, date and place of birth, names of his parents, when known. The U.S. tablets where he is memorialized or interred is part of each record. A comment is included if the man had a wife at the time of his loss. It is an 8-1/2" x 11" publication, intended to be a historic reference work for researchers and an aid for family members who desire additional information about their relative who went off to war and did not return. The records are alphabetically arranged with three to four files per page. A comb binding permits a lay-flat publication in easy to read print. The stories of each one of the 52 U.S. Submarines lost during WWII are included.

Download or read book U S Submarine Losses World War II written by United States. Navy. Pacific Fleet. Submarine Force and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sunken Ships World War II written by Karl Erik Heden and published by Branden Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sunken Ships of World War II" is truly one of the greatest compendiums of naval history that has ever been put together. Not only does it give an exhaustive chronology of events and actions of the United States Navy, it also contains listings of the Allies (American and English) and of the Axis (Japanese, German and Italian) naval losses wherever they took place. Each of the pages of this book is packed with minute information on each sunken vessel. Entries also include the most available information on the commanders, crews, size, displacement and location in degrees of each vessel, the battles, the forces, and just about any other particular information of interest on each vessel. By any measurement, "Sunken Ships of World War II" stands alone for its depth and breath of the information revealed in its detailed pages.

Download or read book U Boats Destroyed written by Paul Kemp and published by Cassell. This book was released on 1999 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique, single-source reference to the subjectFully sourced and set out for ease of referenceAll theatres of action and losses incurred in harbour and during constructionCause of loss always quoted where known

Download or read book Fatal Dive written by Peter F. Stevens and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fatal Dive: Solving the World War II Mystery of the USS Grunion by Peter F. Stevens reveals the incredible true story of the search for and discovery of the USS Grunion. Discovered in 2006 after a decades-long, high-risk search by the Abele brothers—whose father commanded the submarine and met his untimely death aboard it—one question remained: what sank the USS Grunion? Was it a round from a Japanese ship, a catastrophic mechanical failure, or something else—one of the sub’s own torpedoes? For almost half the war, submarine skippers’ complaints about the MK 14 torpedo’s dangerous flaws were ignored by naval brass, who sent the subs out with the defective weapon. Fatal Dive is the first book that documents the entire saga of the ship and its crew and provides compelling evidence that the Grunion was a victim of “The Great Torpedo Scandal of 1941-43.” Fatal Dive finally lays to rest one of World War II’s greatest mysteries.