Download or read book War Diary of the Commander in Chief United States Pacific Fleet June 1942 written by Usnavy and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-19 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a modified version of the June 1942 Commander-in-Chief, United States Pacific Fleet War Diary. This month continues the format from May: the daily "Narrative", "Daily Distribution of Operating Forces", "Current Movements of Naval Units", and "War Plans - Daily Summary". The last week of June is a bit of a muddle, with sections missing or duplicated. Spruance took over as CinCPac Chief of Staff on June 23, so this might be a byproduct of the administrative change. Also at this time the daily intelligence reports are included in the War Diary, though again this is done in a somewhat random and haphazard manner. This document has been altered from the original for publishing and readability purposes. Individual redundant page headings have been deleted. Empty page space has been removed. Typos have been corrected and inconsistencies eliminated. Geographical misspellings have not been changed. Select words in all-uppercase have been replaced with conventional lower case. Other than the above revisions, this is the original CinCPac War Diary, as submitted to the Chief of Naval Operations. The War Diaries were compiled to chronicle the daily operations of the ships and commands of the U.S. Navy. This was done for contemporary analysis and as a historical record.
Download or read book War Diary of the Commander in Chief United States Pacific Fleet May 1942 written by Usnavy and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a modified version of the original May, 1942, Commander-in-Chief, United States Pacific Fleet War Diary. May, 1942 - May continues the format from April, with the daily "Narrative", "Daily Distribution of Operating Forces", "Current Movements of Naval Units", and "War Plans - Daily Summary". Readers of the previous volumes are aware that the CinCPac War Diary is not an in-depth chronical of battle, as, for instance, the minimal information about the actual Battle of the Coral Sea confirms. What the War Diary does give is a detailed list of the ships participating and how they were organized. Due to distance and limited communications, even this information is not always 100% up to date, or 100% accurate (LEXINGTON lingered under the Task Force 11 heading for five days after she was sunk on May 8; she, and Task Force 11, were not removed from the diary until May 13). NOTE: This document has been altered from the original for publishing and readability purposes. Individual redundant page headings have been deleted. Empty page space has been removed. Typos have been corrected and inconsistencies eliminated. Geographical misspellings have not been changed. Select words in all-uppercase have been replaced with conventional lower case. Other than the above revisions, this is the original CinCPac War Diary, as submitted to the Chief of Naval Operations. The War Diaries were compiled to chronicle the daily operations of the ships and commands of the U.S. Navy. This was done for contemporary analysis and as a historical record.
Download or read book War Diary of the Commander in Chief United States Pacific Fleet April 1942 written by Usnavy and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a modified version of the original April, 1942, Commander-in-Chief, United States Pacific Fleet War Diary. Beginning in April, Enclosures are no longer included in the CinCPac War Diary. All War Diaries are now submitted separately. Also in April CinCPac became an expanded command which encompassed all military forces in the Central, South, and North Pacific - this command was called Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas (CinC-POA). However at that time, the War Diary was still listed as that of CinCPac. One casualty of this change is the comprehensive "Summary of the Situation" outline format that had been in use, with minor changes, since January 1, 1942. It was replaced with an abbreviated 10-point outline form. While the previous Summary of the Situation and the current Daily Distribution of Operating Forces had at times been redundant, they had complemented each other. The new form is more streamlined (albeit less detailed), and makes the Daily Distribution of Operating Forces the War Diary's center-piece.
Download or read book War Diary of the Commander in Chief United States Pacific Fleet March 1942 written by J D Goff and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-10 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a modified version of the original Commander-in-Chief, United States Pacific Fleet (CinCPac) War Diary for the month of March 1942. In addition to the CinCPac diary, it also includes the following ship and command diaries: Commander Task Force ONE; Commander Task Force SIXTEEN; Commander Patrol Wing TWO (TF9); Commander Task Force FIFTEEN; Commanding Officer, USS DETROIT (March); Commanding Officer, USS LEXINGTON; Commanding Officer, USS AYLWIN; Commanding Officer, USS RALPH TALBOT; Commander Task Force SEVENTEEN; Commanding Officer, USS DETROIT (Jan and Feb); and Commander Task Force ELEVEN. This version has been edited for readability purposes; also much of the open page space from the original has been eliminated or condensed.
Download or read book War Diary of the Commander In Chief United States Pacific Fleet January 1942 written by J. D. Goff and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-02 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the original Commander-in-Chief, United States Pacific Fleet (CinCPac) War Diary for the month of January 1942. In addition to the CinCPac diary, it also includes the following ship and command diaries: Commander Task Force FOURTEEN; Commander Destroyer Squadron FIVE; Commander Patrol Wing TWO (Task Force NINE); Commander Task Force NINETEEN;Commander Task Force SEVENTEEN; Commander Task Force EIGHT; Commanding Officer, U.S.S. PENSACOLA; Commander Cruisers, Task Force ELEVEN; Patrol Report: U.S.S. POLLACK; Patrol Report: U.S.S. ARGONAUT; Patrol Report: U.S.S. POMPANO; Patrol Report: U.S.S. DOLPHIN; Patrol Report: U.S.S. TAUTOG; Patrol Report: U.S.S. GUDGEON; Patrol Report: U.S.S. PLUNGER; Commander Submarines, Pacific Fleet; Commander Battleships, Battle Force; Commander Task Force FIFTEEN; Commander Officer, U.S.S. HELM; Commanding Officer, U.S.S. LEXINGTON; Commander Submarines, Pacific Fleet - Enemy Sinkings.
Download or read book War Diary of the Commander In Chief United States Pacific Fleet February 1942 written by J. D. Goff and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a modified version of the original Commander-in-Chief, United States Pacific Fleet (CinCPac) War Diary for the month of February 1942. In addition to the CinCPac diary, it also includes the following ship and command diaries: Commander Task Force EIGHT/SIXTEEN; Commander Task Force ONE; Commander Task Force SEVENTEEN; Commander Task Force ELEVEN; Commander Submarines, Pacific Fleet; Commander Patrol Wing TWO (TF 9); Commander Task Force FIFTEEN; Commander Desron FIVE; Commanding Officer, USS FARRAGUT; Commanding Officer, USS BENHAM; Commanding Officer, USS NEW ORLEANS; Commanding Officer, USS SOUTHARD; Commanding Officer, USS REID; Commanding Officer, USS MONAGHAN; and Commanding Officer, USS LEXINGTON. This version has been edited for readability purposes; also much of the open page space from the original has been eliminated or condensed.
Download or read book War Diary of the Commander In Chief United States Pacific Fleet December 1941 written by USNavy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the original Commander-in-Chief, United States Pacific Fleet (CinCPac) War Diary for the month of December 1941. In addition to the CinCPac diary, it also includes the following ship and command diaries: Commandant 14th Naval District Commanding Officer, U.S.S. LEXINGTON Commander Task Group 15.7 (U.S.S. PHOENIX) Commander Destroyer Squadron FIVE Commander Aircraft, Battle Force (Comtaskfor 8) Commander Patrol Wing TWO (Comtaskfor 9) Commander Battleships, Battle Force Commander Task Force TWELVE - ELEVEN Commander Cruisers, Scouting Force Commander Submarines, Pacific Fleet Commanding Officer, U.S.S. MAHAN U.S.S. TRITON - report on Wake Island Commander Carrier Division ONE Commander Task Force FIFTEEN Commanding Officer, U.S.S. NEW ORLEANS Commanding Officer, U.S.S. PENSACOLA The diaries have been edited for typos and consistency. Individual page headers have been removed and large empty spaces have been eliminated. Other than these changes the words are as originally written. These are not personal journals; they are the official day-to-day record of the included ships and commands of the United States Pacific Fleet, as submitted to the Chief of Naval Operations. The diaries are in the public domain and the original is on file at the National Archives.
Download or read book The Battle of Midway Including the Aleutian Phase June 3 to June 14 1942 written by Richard W. Bates and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Midway, a decisive engagement of World War II in the Pacific, was also of major importance in naval history. Following the precedent set in the Battle of the Coral Sea, Midway was fundamentally an air action. Japan's objective was to extend her eastern frontiers through the seizure of the Midway Atoll, and decisively to engage the American Navy under conditions favoring Japan, with the Aleutians operation as a diversion posing a threat to Alaska. The United States intent was to end the Japanese threat to Hawaii and Japan's offensive action in that area and to reestablish the balance of naval power in the Pacific. The outstanding American naval strategical and tactical victory confirmed the Allied concept, while Japan's heavy losses forced her to adopt a defensive role and to change her fleet organization, emphasizing carriers over battleships.
Download or read book Admiral John S McCain and the Triumph of Naval Air Power written by William F Trimble and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Admiral John S. McCain and the Triumph of Naval Air Power covers the life and professional career of Adm. John S. McCain Sr. (1884–1945). Spanning most of the first half of the twentieth century, McCain’s life and career highlight the integration of aviation into the Navy, emphasizing the evolution of the aircraft carrier from a tactical element of the fleet stressing sea control to a strategic force capable of long-range power projection. Although much of the book focuses on carrier aviation, McCain was instrumental in the emergence of flying boats, considered essential for long-range reconnaissance in the Pacific. One of the senior officers branded as “Johnny-Come-Latelys” by pioneer aviators, McCain nevertheless brought fresh approaches and innovation to naval aviation. His prewar and initial wartime commands encompassed tender-based and shore-based aviation, which were critical to early operations in the Pacific, yet McCain also understood the power and potential of carrier-based aviation, initially as commanding officer of the USS Ranger before the war, then as a carrier task force commander under Adm. William F. Halsey in the Pacific in 1944 and 1945. Moreover, he served tours as Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics and the first Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air) in 1942–1944. In these posts he witnessed and played a role in the culmination of naval air power as a means of delivering crippling blows to the enemy’s homeland. McCain was among only a handful of officers who achieved prominence during the war and who had experience in all of these varied and challenging levels of command.
Download or read book Battle of Midway written by Chester William Nimitz and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Joe Rochefort s War written by Elliot W Carlson and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elliot Carlson’s award-winning biography of Capt. Joe Rochefort is the first to be written about the officer who headed Station Hypo, the U.S. Navy’s signals monitoring and cryptographic intelligence unit at Pearl Harbor, and who broke the Japanese navy’s code before the Battle of Midway. The book brings Rochefort to life as the irreverent, fiercely independent, and consequential officer that he was. Readers share his frustrations as he searches in vain for Yamamoto’s fleet prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but share his joy when he succeeds in tracking the fleet in early 1942 and breaks the code that leads Rochefort to believe Yamamoto’s invasion target is Midway. His conclusions, bitterly opposed by some top Navy brass, are credited with making the U.S. victory possible and helping to change the course of the war. The author tells the story of how opponents in Washington forced Rochefort’s removal from Station Hypo and denied him the Distinguished Service Medal recommended by Admiral Nimitz. In capturing the interplay of policy and personality and the role played by politics at the highest levels of the Navy, Carlson reveals a side of the intelligence community seldom seen by outsiders. For a full understanding of the man, Carlson examines Rochefort’s love-hate relationship with cryptanalysis, his adventure-filled years in the 1930s as the right-hand man to the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet, and his return to codebreaking in mid-1941 as the officer in charge of Station Hypo. He traces Rochefort’s career from his enlistment in 1918 to his posting in Washington as head of the Navy’s codebreaking desk at age twenty-five, and beyond. In many ways a reinterpretation of Rochefort, the book makes clear the key role his codebreaking played in the outcome of Midway and the legacy he left of reporting actionable intelligence directly to the fleet. An epilogue describes efforts waged by Rochefort’s colleagues to obtain the medal denied him in 1942—a drive that finally paid off in 1986 when the medal was awarded posthumously.
Download or read book Tin Can Titans written by John Wukovits and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic narrative of World War II naval action that brings to life the sailors and exploits of the war's most decorated destroyer squadron. When Admiral William Halsey selected Destroyer Squadron 21 (Desron 21) to lead his victorious ships into Tokyo Bay to accept the Japanese surrender, it was the most battle-hardened US naval squadron of the war. But it was not the squadron of ships that had accumulated such an inspiring resume; it was the people serving aboard them. Sailors, not metallic superstructures and hulls, had won the battles and become the stuff of legend. Men like Commander Donald MacDonald, skipper of the USS O'Bannon, who became the most decorated naval officer of the Pacific war; Lieutenant Hugh Barr Miller, who survived his ship's sinking and waged a one-man battle against the enemy while stranded on a Japanese-occupied island; and Doctor Dow "Doc" Ransom, the beloved physician of the USS La Vallette, who combined a mixture of humor and medical expertise to treat his patients at sea, epitomize the sacrifices made by all the men and women of World War II. Through diaries, personal interviews with survivors, and letters written to and by the crews during the war, preeminent historian of the Pacific theater John Wukovits brings to life the human story of the squadron that bested the Japanese in the Pacific and helped take the war to Tokyo.
Download or read book Admiral Bull Halsey written by John Wukovits and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of America's best-known naval officer, who commanded the legendary fast carrier force during WWII. From the tragic aftermath of Pearl Harbor, when he fashioned America's first response to the attack, to the war's final day in Tokyo Bay when he witnessed Japan's surrender, Admiral William F. Halsey stamped a mighty imprint on the Pacific during World War II. He led or participated significantly in the Navy's first offensive strikes against the Marshall Islands and Wake Island, the Guadalcanal campaign, and the offensive toward Japan. As a commander, he never shied from engaging the enemy, but boldly entered into battle, ready for a fight. As a consequence, Halsey became the face of the Navy and its most attractive public relations phenomenon. Due to his bold tactics and quotable wit, Halsey continues to be a beloved and debated figure. In this balanced biography, historian John Wukovits illuminates the life of a man who ultimately deserves recognition as one the great naval commanders in U.S. history. Europe had Patton; the Pacific had Admiral William "the Bull" Halsey.
Download or read book Battle of Midway June 3 6 1942 written by United States. Office of Naval Intelligence. Combat Intelligence Branch and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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