The U.S. Navy Against the Axis: Surface Combat, 1941-1945Naval Institute Press, 2007 - 364 pagine The U.S. Navy against the Axis tells the story of the U.S. Navy's surface fleet in World War II with an emphasis on ship-to-ship combat. The book refutes the widely-held notion that the attack on Pearl Harbor rendered battleships obsolete and that aviation and submarines dominated the Pacific War. It demonstrates how the surface fleet played a decisive role at critical junctures. It was crucial to America's ultimate victory and its story holds many lessons for today's Navy and the nation as a whole. The U.S. Navy against the Axis describes how swift adaptability and intellectual honesty were fundamental to the Navy's success against Japan. The underlying premise is that the nation cannot assume that in a conflict against conventional or asymmetric enemies, it holds title to the same virtues the Navy demonstrated three generations ago. Instead those lessons need to be constantly studied and affirmed in the face of postwar mythologies, lest they be forgotten. |
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... battle line of the U.S. Navy's surface fleet . The American voyage from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay was extraordinary , and it invites at least two questions : How did the U.S. Navy achieve such success in World War II , and what role did ...
... battle line of the U.S. Navy's surface fleet . The American voyage from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay was extraordinary , and it invites at least two questions : How did the U.S. Navy achieve such success in World War II , and what role did ...
Pagina 110
... battle line no longer existed . Captain Kikkawa's Yudachi bore much of the responsibility for breaking the American line . After spinning in her tracks , the Yudachi headed southwest to star- board of the American column . At 0155 she ...
... battle line no longer existed . Captain Kikkawa's Yudachi bore much of the responsibility for breaking the American line . After spinning in her tracks , the Yudachi headed southwest to star- board of the American column . At 0155 she ...
Pagina 254
... battle line arose even before five of the six battleships had opened fire . At 0354 the Mississippi informed Weyler that her forward turrets were trained too far aft to bear . In reply , Weyler ordered simultaneous turns thirty degrees ...
... battle line arose even before five of the six battleships had opened fire . At 0354 the Mississippi informed Weyler that her forward turrets were trained too far aft to bear . In reply , Weyler ordered simultaneous turns thirty degrees ...
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The East Indies II | 45 |
17 | 86 |
Guadalcanal November 1942 | 99 |
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