Author: United States. Bureau of Naval PersonnelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Torpedoes
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Torpedoman's Mate 3 & 2
Author: United States. Bureau of Naval PersonnelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Torpedoes
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
All Hands
Author: Naval Training Bulletin
Author: Naval Reservist
Author: Hell from the Heavens
Author: John WukovitsPublisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 030682325X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Looking toward the heavens, the destroyer crew saw what seemed to be the entire Japanese Air Force assembled directly above. Hell was about to be unleashed on them in the largest single-ship kamikaze attack of World War II. On April 16, 1945, the crewmen of the USS Laffey were battle hardened and prepared. They had engaged in combat off the Normandy coast in June 1944. They had been involved in three prior assaults of enemy positions in the Pacific-at Leyte and Lingayen in the Philippines and at Iwo Jima. They had seen kamikazes purposely crash into other destroyers and cruisers in their unit and had seen firsthand the bloody results of those crazed tactics. But nothing could have prepared the crew for this moment-an eighty-minute ordeal in which the single small ship was targeted by no fewer than twenty-two Japanese suicide aircraft. By the time the unprecedented attack on the Laffey was finished, thirty-two sailors lay dead, more than seventy were wounded, and the ship was grievously damaged. Although she lay shrouded in smoke and fire for hours, the Laffey somehow survived, and the gutted American warship limped from Okinawa's shore for home, where the ship and crew would be feted as heroes. Using scores of personal interviews with survivors, the memoirs of crew members, and the sailors' wartime correspondence, historian and author John Wukovits breathes life into the story of this nearly forgotten historic event. The US Navy described the kamikaze attack on the Laffey "as one of the great sea epics of the war." In Hell from the Heavens, the author makes the ordeal of the Laffey and her crew a story for the ages.
U.S. Naval Training Bulletin
Author: American State Papers
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
Report
Author: Gunner's Mate Missile M 3 & 2
Author: Naval EducationPublisher: Periscope Film LLC
ISBN: 9781937684327
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
With the introduction of guided missiles to the U.S. Navy, the Gunner's Mate Missile (GMM) rating was created. Tasked with operating, maintaining and repairing guided missile systems, the GMM had broad responsibilities. GMM training included two phases. GMM strikers studied for the Petty Officer 3rd Class rating (GMM3) and then advanced to 2nd Class (GMM2). From these candidates, some would be given additional training to obtain 1st Class (GMM1) or Chief Petty Officer (GMMC) ranks. This Gunner's Mate Missile M 2 & 3 manual was originally issued in 1972, when the Talos, Tartar and Terrier missile systems were in use. Chapter topics include an explanation of the Gunner's Mate (Missile) rating, how to hit a target from a moving ship, principles of missile flight and jet propulsion, missile guidance and control, launching systems, typical gun and missile systems, applications of servomechanisms, hydraulics and pneumatics, electrical devices, explosives / pyrotechnics and magazines, small arms and landing party equipment and demolition, general maintenance, common test equipment and troubleshooting, launcher checks and missile replenishment and servicing, and information input and output.
Annual Report of the Military Department, State of Oregon
Author: Oregon. Military DeptPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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