The Captain Class Frigates in the Second World War - 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 Captain Class Frigates in the Second World War write by Donald Collingwood. This book was released on 1999-04-01. The Captain Class Frigates in the Second World War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first book to fully document the story behind the Frigates that played such a vital role during World War Two.
The Captain Class Frigates in the Second World War
The Captain Class Frigates in the Second World War - 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 Captain Class Frigates in the Second World War write by Donald Collingwood. This book was released on 1999. The Captain Class Frigates in the Second World War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Battle of the Atlantic was Winston Churchill's area greatest of concern during the Second World War. By 1943 new tactics and technology, developed out of bitter experience, combined with the effect of long range maritime patrol aircraft were beginning to tip the balance in the Allies' favour. But the dearth of modern escort vessels was still potentially disastrous; over 160 U-boats were still at large to attack vital convoys of men and material. The Captain Class Frigates, seventy-eight sturdy, modern destroyer escorts, known affectionately by all who sailed in them as the DEs, built in the United States and leased to the Royal Navy, began to come into commission in January of that year and to fill that desperate, long felt need. This is their story, told by a man who served with them from their first arrival to their return to the States in 1946. It is a story of vigilance, determination and dogged fortitude combined with high skill and unfailing courage.
The Captain Class Frigates in the Second World War
The Captain Class Frigates in the Second World War - 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 Captain Class Frigates in the Second World War write by Donald Collingwood. This book was released on 1999-04-01. The Captain Class Frigates in the Second World War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first book to fully document the story behind the Frigates that played such a vital role during World War Two.
Shepherds of the Sea
Shepherds of the Sea - 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 Shepherds of the Sea write by Robert F Cross. This book was released on 2010-05-15. Shepherds of the Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This compelling tale of courage, heroism, and terror is told in the words of ninety-one sailors and officers interviewed by the author about their World War II service aboard fifty-six destroyer escorts. They reveal many never-before-told details of life at sea during wartime and, along with information found in secretly kept war diaries and previously unpublished personal photographs, add important dimensions to the official record. Unseasoned teenage recruits when they first went to sea, these sailors were led by inexperienced college boys more accustomed to yachts than warships. Their ships were untested vessels, designed by a man with no formal training in ship design, and which many viewed as a waste of money. Yet, as Cross points out, these men are credited with helping turn the tide of the war in the Atlantic as they singlehandedly sank some seventy U-boats and captured U-505, the only German submarine taken during the war and the first enemy vessel captured by Americans at sea since the War of 1812. In the Pacific, the destroyer escorts fought in every major battle, side-by-side with Allied battleships and destroyers. But this story is not just about battles. It is also about American genius, hard work, honor and growing up in the Great Depression. The author provides eyewitness details about the historic first step taken to end racial discrimination in the military as African-Americans stepped aboard the destroyer escort USS Mason as full-fledged sailors for the first time and earned a Navy commendation of heroism in the Battle of the Atlantic presented to the surviving crewmen fifty-one years later. Readers also learn about an ingenious invention when a sailor breaks his silence about a secret weapon tested aboard his destroyer escort that rendered a new German radio-controlled glide bomb useless.
Aboard the Farragut Class Destroyers in World War II
Aboard the Farragut Class Destroyers in World War II - 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 Aboard the Farragut Class Destroyers in World War II write by Leo Block. This book was released on 2009-06-08. Aboard the Farragut Class Destroyers in World War II available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book describes the life of the enlisted men aboard a Farragut class destroyer during the pre-World War II years; the war preparation period in 1941; and the wartime years. It features first-person narrations collected from interviews and correspondence with the few remaining Farragut class destroyer sailors, and briefly describes the evolution of the destroyer and the Farragut class destroyers, five of which survived the war.
