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Author: Thomas Charles Hart Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 290
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Intensive biography including childhood and early education; USNA; cruises; USNA Faculty; Spanish-American War; WWI; Submarines; Naval War College; USS MISSISSIPPI; Torpedo Station Newport; Superintendent, USNA, 1931-34; General Board, 1936-39; Asiatic Fleet, 1939-41; WWII; Senator from Conn., 1945-47.
Author: Thomas Charles Hart Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 290
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Intensive biography including childhood and early education; USNA; cruises; USNA Faculty; Spanish-American War; WWI; Submarines; Naval War College; USS MISSISSIPPI; Torpedo Station Newport; Superintendent, USNA, 1931-34; General Board, 1936-39; Asiatic Fleet, 1939-41; WWII; Senator from Conn., 1945-47.
Author: James Leutze Publisher: Naval Institute Press ISBN: 1682471535 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 377
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This biography of Admiral Thomas C. Hart is important not only because it is the story of a man whose central guiding force in life was the U.S. Navy, but also because it is a study of some fifty-five significant years of American history. This book, based in part on the twenty-one volume Hart diary, investigates the forces and circumstances that shaped Hart’s actions during a memorable and influential career that spanned three wars and was followed by brief service in the U.S. Senate. From his earliest days on the faculty of the U.S. Naval Academy, where he was dedicated to academic reform, to his ‘second” career in elected office, Hart could always be found amid controversy. His appointment as commander of the Asiatic fleet, a billet he wanted and was led to believe he would get, was partly the result of uneasy relationship with FDR. Here, enlivened with Hart’s naval and diplomatic experiences in the Philippines and the Netherlands East Indies, vantage points that provided him with an excellent perspective on the opening stages of the Pacific War. James Leutze provides us with Hart’s firsthand account of the Lanikai-Isabel incident, the hazardous foray ordered by Roosevelt in 1941. Although, ostensibly, the purpose of the maneuver was to garner information on the movements of the Japanese fleet, Hart clearly considered that Roosevelt’s intention was to provoke the Japanese. In descriptive detail, James Leutze relates Hart’s war experiences, both professional and private, and examines his controversial relationships with other, equally strong-minded naval leaders. Particularly burdensome at times were Hart’s difficulties with the brilliant, but egotistical and quixotic, Douglas MacArthur. Hart’s role as commander of the naval forces of the American, British, Dutch, and Australian military command is carefully analyzed by Leutze. The ABDA never became effective, and, because of Allied jealousies and internal political pressures, Hart was eventually removed from his command. Leutze shows us, with compassion, a man given heavy responsibility, and then virtually ignored by his own government. Blunt, outspoken, aloof, and occasionally referred to as “Terrible Tommy,” Admiral Thomas C. Hart was nevertheless respected and admired, an inspiration to his fellow officers. Here is the fascinating story of a man who had an enduring influence on U.S. naval and diplomatic history.
Author: George W. Baer Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 9780804727945 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 572
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A navy is a state's main instrument of maritime force. What it should do, what doctrine it holds, what ships it deploys, and how it fights are determined by practical political and military choices in relation to national needs. Choices are made according to the state's goals, perceived threat, maritime opportunity, technological capabilities, practical experience, and, not the least, the way the sea service defines itself and its way of war. This book is a history of the modern U.S. Navy. It explains how the Navy, in the century after 1890, was formed and reformed in the interaction of purpose, experience, and doctrine.
Author: Denys W Knoll Publisher: ISBN: 9781682691441 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 0
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Admiral Knoll's strength was as a staff officer. The list of individuals on whose staffs he served: Admiral Thomas C. Hart, Admiral Ernest J. King, Ambassador Averell Harriman, Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, Rear Admiral Walter F. Boone, Vice Admiral Arthur D. Struble, Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, Vice Admiral Alfred M. Pride, Vice Admiral Stuart H. Ingersoll, Vice Admiral Wallace M. Beakley, Vice Admiral Glynn R. Donaho, and Admiral Robert L. Dennison. Knoll graduated from the Naval Academy in 1930. He served 1930-32 in the battleship Texas (BB-35), sandwiched around unsuccessful flight training at Pensacola in 1931. In 1932-34 he served on board the destroyers Southard (DD-207) and Preble (DD-345). After participating in a Navy geographical survey of the Aleutian Islands in 1934, he served in the battleship Oklahoma (BB-37), 1934-36, then took a three-month course in chemical warfare at Edgewood Arsenal in 1936. He was a student at the Navy's Postgraduate School, 1936-38, then received a master's degree in aerology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1939. In 1939-40 Knoll served with Patrol Wing Five. He had an extended period on the staff of Commander in Chief Asiatic Fleet, 1940-42, and was evacuated from Corregidor just before it fell to the Japanese in May 1942. He was stationed in Washington, 1942-44 on the CominCh staff, officer in charge of the weather central, and assistant secretary, Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 1944-45 was on the staff of the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union to facilitate implementation of Lend-Lease and agreements at the Tehran Conference. In 1946 Knoll was part of the U.S. military delegation to organizing meetings for the United Nations. He commanded the oiler Severn (AO-61), 1946-47, before service in the strategic planning section of OpNav, 1948-52. He commanded the attack transport Menard (APA-201) in 1952 before returning to service in the strategic planning section of OpNav. In 1955 Knoll was commanding officer of the light cruiser Roanoke (CL-145) and from 1955 to 1957 was chief of staff to Commander Seventh Fleet. From 1957 to 1959 he served in the OpNav fleet maintenance division and as chairman of the Ship Characteristics Board. In 1959-60 he was Commander Destroyer Flotilla Four. In 1960-61 was director of the OpNav Technical Studies Group before duty in 1961-63 as Commander Service Force Atlantic Fleet, part of it during the Cuban Missile Crisis. From 1963 to 1965 Knoll was Oceanographer of the Navy, and his final active duty, from 1965 to 1967, was as Deputy Commander of the Military Sea Transportation Service. Post-retirement activities included employment by Litton Industries.
Author: LCDR James R. Stobie Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing ISBN: 1786254190 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 151
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Early on Sunday, 7 December 1941, the air and naval forces of the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the U.S. Pacific Fleet at anchor in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) recorded the day as “a date which will live in infamy” in his speech to a joint session of Congress. Subsequent investigations and histories judged U.S. intelligence as unprepared in its failure to predict the attack at Pearl Harbor. Yet FDR also listed the other locations Japan attacked in those first twenty-four hours starting with the attack at Kota Bharu in Malaya. Reviewing U.S. intelligence estimates and “war warning” messages against Imperial Japanese war plans and actions, U.S. intelligence understood Imperial Japan’s intentions and plans far better than is recorded. Of the places listed in the 27 November 1941 “war warning”—”the Philippines, Thai or Kra [Malay] Peninsula and possibly Borneo”—two were attacked on that first day of war and the last, Borneo, a week later. On that first day of war, Japan also attacked Guam, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Wake and Midway Islands, the latter two reinforced against impending war with Japan in early December 1941 by U.S. aircraft carriers. The surprise of the attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet overshadows the accuracy of U.S. intelligence estimates prior to the Pacific War.
Author: Thomas H Moorer Publisher: ISBN: 9781682690321 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 0
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Designated a naval aviator in 1936, the admiral served in the Langley, Lexington, and Enterprise. During World War II he was with Fleet Air Wing Ten in the southwest Pacific and was shot down in a PBY in 1942, receiving the Purple Heart. In 1944 he commanded Bombing Squadron 132 operating in Cuba and Africa.
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