Author: Alexander Pearce HigginsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maritime law
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Armed Merchant Ships
Author: Alexander Pearce HigginsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maritime law
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Defensively-armed Merchant Ships and Submarine Warfare
Author: Alexander Pearce HigginsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armed merchant ships
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Fourth Arm of Defense
Author: Salvatore R. MercoglianoPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780945274964
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
This publication is the eighth in the series The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War. The publication focuses on the sealift and logistic operations during the war and includes a number of photographs as well as sidebars detailing specific people and ships involved in the logistic operations. This historical pictorial reference would be of interest to students, historians, members of the military, specifically the Navy, and military leaders, veterans, Vietnam War veterans, and the U.S. merchant marines.
Merchant Vessels of the United States
Author: The Ship That Never Was
Author: B.J. BRYANPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456877682
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
"The United States Merchant Marine provided the greatest sealift in history between the production army at home and the fighting forces scattered around the globe in World War II. The prewar total of 55,000 experienced mariners was increased to over 215,000 through U. S. Maritime Service training programs. Merchant ships faced danger from submarines, mines, armed raiders, and destroyers, aircraft (kamikaze), and the element. About 8,300 mariners were killed at sea, 12.00 wounded of whom at least, 1, 100 died from their wounds, and 663 men and women were taken prisoner. Some were blown to death, some incinerated, some drowned, some froze and some starved. Many died in prison camps or aboard Japanese ships while being transported to other camps. 31 ships vanished without a trace to a watery grave. ( Total killed estimated 9,300) "
Armed Merchant Cruisers
Author: Kenneth PoolmanPublisher: Secker & Warburg
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Bevæbnede handelsskibe var generelt var passagerskibe bevæbnet med gamle 6" kanoner og brugtes som erstatning på mangelaf militære krydsere. Bogen omhandler især britiske AMC'er i de to verdenskrige.
DEFENSIVELY-ARMED MERCHANT SHI
Author: A. Pearce (Alexander Pearce) 1. HigginsPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781361740712
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
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Merchant Ship Shapes
Author: The Fourth Service
Author: John SladerPublisher: ibooks
ISBN: 1876963131
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Here at last is the true story of the merchant fleet during World War II, the non-fighting service in which 32,000 men died yet whose essential role has never been fully appreciated. The author, himself a member of the service from 1941-47, relates the stories of merchantmen and their crews with unique insight. From the early days of the war to the day of victory on the Rhine, through combined operations in the Mediterranean and at Normandy, the complete operation of the fleet is examined, with vivid accounts of the horrific losses undergone, the heroism of the crews and the sacrifices endured to ensure that Britain received its essential supplies of food, oil, and raw materials. Highly illustrated, this book will be absorbing for the war historian, maritime enthusiast and general reader alike.
United States Merchant Marine at War
Author: United States. War Shipping AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description