The United States Navy ships, tactics and operations during the second world war, in the pacific, Atlantic and Mediterranean theaters
WW2 US Other Vehicles Demolition Tank T31 During World War II, US demolition crews faced the critical task of dismantling enemy fortifications and obstacles, sometimes under fire. They lacked a dedicated vehicle for this in the US arsenal. Various tools, like dozer blade kits and high-explosive...
The USS Forrestal (CVA-59,Figure 1) was commissioned in 1955 as the lead ship in the Super Carrier class. The US Navy had learned a great deal from trying to operate various jet aircraft from WW2-era Essex-class straight deck aircraft carriers, and realized a major ...
United States of America vs Grenada Grenada, the southernmost island nation in the Grenadines in the Caribbean, is a tropic island known as the spice island thanks to the harvesting of nutmeg. It had been a British colony since 1763, but in 1967, it was granted home rule on the road to...
Marine traffic remains severely limited with only 69 ships have passed through since 26 March. Divers working within the river in the salvage mission face a number of problems as they face huge, twisted steel beams, possible human remains and "hundreds of tons of shattered c...
(what they want for ww2 peace no dicatiorship) Why did Hitler order his U-boats to attack US warships? In the fall of 1941 Hitler ordered German U-Boats to shoot American warships that were escorting British merchant ships prevent lend lease shipments ...
I believe at this time that all the wounded had been taken off the ship and it was extremely dangerous for anyone to remain aboard; that nothing could be done to save the ship and shell from the secondary batteries were constantly exploding due to the intensive heat of the fire midships....
Germans used thier U-boats in coordination with the packs, and they planned to attack the east coast of the US. What is the convoy system? A heavy guard of destroyers escorted merchant ships back and forth across the Atlantic in groups What happens in North Africa before Germany arrives? It...
in Belleau Wood, 19 July 1918 Lying offshore, ready to act, the presence of ships and Marines sometimes means much more than just having air power or ship's fire, when it comes to deterring a crisis. And the ships and Marines may not have to do anything but lie offshore. It is ha...
in the previous world war when the Germans were accused of dishonorably sinking our ships. Your former EconLog co-blogger Bryan Caplan would say that people are prone to herding & hystericalcrusades, and in most of those examples you can see how a salient event acted as a “seed” to ...