As a U-boat captain of the Kriegsmarine – the German navy – your job is to stalk the shadows of the deep, seeking out Allied warships and merchant navy convoys, and hunting them to extinction. This is not just an action-focused, twin-stick controlled, ‘World of Submarines’ ...
Imperial Navy scouts realized that the tiny oiler force had been erroneously reported, and passed the word. Still, the tactical picture remained clouded, and after failing to find the U.S. carriers, Takagi directed an attack on the oiler unit. The two American ships were swarmed by three ...
Winston Churchill told American Ambassador to the United Kingdom Joseph Kennedy that even if Britain was to be conquered by Germany, the British government would continue the fight from Canada with the Royal Navy. [Winston Churchill | London, England | CPC]15...
The “navy” of the small Kingdom of the Adriatic had distant roots, located north of the Epirots and ancient Molossians, and their distant ancestors were the Illyrian pirates much feared by the Romans. The latter learned to respect them and even copied their agile Lemboi and Actuarias. ...
The Imperial Japanese Navy In the Pacific War. William Y'Blood (1983). Hunter-Killer US Escort Carriers in the Battle of the Atlantic. William Y'Blood (1987). The Little Giants- U.S. Escort Carriers Against Japan. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships Imperial Japanese Navy Page Naval...
Denmark has been already neutral (see the Danish Navy in WW1), despite having a strategic position, for the same reasons that in 1939. Pressures have been high on both sides, ships had been sunk by error and minefields laid down, but merchant traffic went on. Denmark had the uncomfortable...
German Reich (1943) Self-Propelled Gun Battery – None Built This vehicle, known only from a single blueprint, is possibly one of the strangest tracked war machines ever designed. German blueprint HSK 3485, dated 15 June 1943, named Project “NM”, shows a monstrous and ungainly vehicle ...
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Indeed, in 1812, America declared war on the British Empire following incidents which involved the Royal Navy seizing men and ships in the larger context of the Napoleonic war. In order to harm the empire, the USA launched an expedition into Canada (very much seen as a British stronghold in...
'about to be bombed.' ... To the east, Major Chennault's P-40 pilots went about their morning business, unaware of what was taking place at Dutch Harbour. The jerry-rigged communications system that had been hastily installed between the Navy base and the forward army air field had failed...