Further south, off the Brazilian coast, the menace came at first from Italian submarines based in Bordeaux, France. The then neutral Brazilians mounted anti-submarine patrols on North American NA-44 trainers and old Vought V-65Corsairs. The first actual Brazilian attack against a submarine came o...
The entertainment industry began producing movies with content that was centered around the war, with movies having themes centered around topics like submarines, spying, or Nazi concentration camps. The U.S. government utilized the movie theater to communicate with Americans and push out war-...
Facing submarines, mines, armed raiders, destroyers, aircraft, "kamikaze," and the elements. About 8,300 mariners were killed at sea, 12,000 wounded of whom at least 1,100 died from their wounds, and 663 men and women were taken prisoner. Some were blown to death, some incinerated, ...
He later served as a radarman on a Coast Guard cutter patrolling the east coast, from Brooklyn to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, protecting vital sea lines of communication and allied shipping from German submarines. Born in 1922 in Plainfield, N.J., Al worked in his father’s grocery and butcher ...
in the Pacific campaign. These remarkably versatile vessels––called CVEs, baby flattops, and even jeeps carriers––hunted submarines, escorted convoys, provided air support, and performed dozens of other tasks that are vividly described in this book. Based on interviews with the CVE crewmen ...
Great Planes looks into the stories behind the most influential, innovative and intriguing machines that ever tookflight. The North American Aviation