Hailstorm Over Truk Lagoon, Second Edition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hailstorm Over Truk Lagoon, Second Edition write by Klaus Lindemann. This book was released on 2005-09-01. Hailstorm Over Truk Lagoon, Second Edition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Hailstorm Over Truk Lagoon' remains the authoritative reference book about the US Navy carrier raid of 17/18 February 1944 on the Japanese naval and supply base Truk, in the East Caroline Islands. This edition presented here adds later information and pictures to the book, and corrects errors. . . . The new discoveries and other changes, as well as new information made it necessary to issue a revised edition of 'Hailstorm over Truk Lagoon.' The text of this edition has been generally updated to 1990. New finds, observations or conditions seen at the popular wrecks during my diving visit in spring 1991 have been incorporated. All this is part of the ongoing research about Truk.Ó From the Foreword
Sportdiving in Australia & the South Pacific
Sportdiving in Australia & the South Pacific - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sportdiving in Australia & the South Pacific write by . This book was released on 1992. Sportdiving in Australia & the South Pacific available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Nightstalkers
Nightstalkers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nightstalkers write by Richard Phillip Lawless. This book was released on 2023-02-23. Nightstalkers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Never-before-told story of the 868th Bomb Squadron, the Nightstalkers, who paired cutting-edge technology with daring—launching single-aircraft night-time missions stalking the Japanese in the Pacific. In August 1943, a highly classified US Army Air Force unit, code-named the “Wright Project,” departed Langley Field for Guadalcanal in the South Pacific to join the fight against the Empire of Japan. Operating independently, under sealed orders drafted at the highest levels of Army Air Force, the Wright Project was unique, both in terms of the war-fighting capabilities provided by classified systems the ten B-24 Liberators of this small group of airmen brought to the war, and in the success these “crash-built” technologies allowed. The Wright airmen would fly only at night, usually as lone hunters of enemy ships. In so doing they would pave the way for the United States to enter and dominate a new dimension of war in the air for generations to come. This is their story, from humble beginnings at MIT’s Radiation Lab and hunting U-boats off America’s eastern shore, through to the campaigns of the war in the Pacific in their two-year march toward Tokyo. The Wright Project would prove itself to be a combat leader many times over and an outstanding technology innovator, evolving to become the 868th Bomb Squadron. Along the way the unit would be embraced by unique personalities and the dynamic leadership, from Army Air Force General Hap Arnold through combat commanders who flew the missions. In this account, the reader will meet radar warfare pioneers and squadron leaders who were never satisfied that they had pushed the men, the aircraft, and the technologies to the full limit of their possibilities. Comprehensive and highly personal, this story can now be revealed for the very first time, based on official sources, and interviews with the young men who flew into the night.
Hailstorm Over Truk Lagoon
Hailstorm Over Truk Lagoon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hailstorm Over Truk Lagoon write by Klaus P. Lindemann. This book was released on 1982. Hailstorm Over Truk Lagoon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage
The Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage write by Sarah Dromgoole. This book was released on 2006-09-01. The Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The legal protection of the underwater cultural heritage is a field in which there is growing international interest. Shipwrecks and other underwater cultural remains in every maritime zone are threatened both by activities ‘directed at’ them, such as treasure hunting, and by activities ‘incidentally affecting’ them, such as mineral exploration and exploitation, pipeline and cable-laying, dredging, and fishing. Since the first edition of this collection (published in 1999), the urgent need for an international legal framework to regulate these activities has been formally recognised by the adoption in 2001 of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage. While the prospects for this Convention remain uncertain, it will undoubtedly have a profound influence on national laws and practice in this field. This second collection of essays examines the present state of law, policy and practice in sixteen different jurisdictions around the world in light of the 2001 Convention. Among other things, the viewpoint of each jurisdiction in respect of the Convention is considered and the impact that the Convention is already having, and is likely to have in the future, is explored. Eight of the essays are entirely new, and several additional jurisdictions are covered (Finland, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Norway). The other essays have been thoroughly updated and revised to take account of the Convention. The contributors come from a variety of backgrounds, but all have specialist knowledge and experience of their particular jurisdiction and a keen interest in the field.
