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Author: Melanie Wiggins Publisher: ISBN: 9780890966488 Category : Galveston (Tex.) Languages : en Pages : 0
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At the beginning of America's involvement in World War II, Galveston Island was a recreation center for servicemen. Every evening throngs of soldiers, sailors, and Marines strolled along the seawall, basking in the warm sun and soft Gulf breezes. It was paradise on earth. Small wonder that German U-boat commanders caught Americans totally unprepared for a Gulf attack. Between 1942 and 1943, twenty-four German submarines entered the Gulf of Mexico and attacked American and Allied ships, sinking fifty-six merchant ships and damaging fourteen more. Although responses were initially chaotic, Americans soon established a defense system that could cope with the threat.
Author: Melanie Wiggins Publisher: ISBN: 9780890966488 Category : Galveston (Tex.) Languages : en Pages : 0
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At the beginning of America's involvement in World War II, Galveston Island was a recreation center for servicemen. Every evening throngs of soldiers, sailors, and Marines strolled along the seawall, basking in the warm sun and soft Gulf breezes. It was paradise on earth. Small wonder that German U-boat commanders caught Americans totally unprepared for a Gulf attack. Between 1942 and 1943, twenty-four German submarines entered the Gulf of Mexico and attacked American and Allied ships, sinking fifty-six merchant ships and damaging fourteen more. Although responses were initially chaotic, Americans soon established a defense system that could cope with the threat.
Author: Melanie Wiggins Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 288
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Between 1942 and 1943, 24 German submarines entered the Gulf of Mexico and attached American ships. American response was chaotic until organized.
Author: Homer H Hickam Publisher: Naval Institute Press ISBN: 1612515789 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 369
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In 1942 German U-boats turned the shipping lanes off Cape Hatteras into a sea of death. Cruising up and down the U.S. eastern seaboard, they sank 259 ships, littering the waters with cargo and bodies. As astonished civilians witnessed explosions from American beaches, fighting men dubbed the area "Torpedo Junction." And while the U.S. Navy failed to react, a handful of Coast Guard sailors scrambled to the front lines. Outgunned and out-maneuvered, they heroically battled the deadliest fleet of submarines ever launched. Never was Germany closer to winning the war. In a moving ship-by-ship account of terror and rescue at sea, Homer Hickam chronicles a little-known saga of courage, ingenuity, and triumph in the early years of World War II. From nerve-racking sea duels to the dramatic ordeals of sailors and victims on both sides of the battle, Hickam dramatically captures a war we had to win--because this one hit terrifyingly close to home.
Author: John J. Domagalski Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc. ISBN: 159797840X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 266
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The early morning hours of July 6, 1943, found the USS "Helena" off the Solomon Islands in what would later be known as the Battle of Kula Gulf. But the ship s participation in the battle came to a swift end when three Japanese torpedoes suddenly struck. One hundred and sixty-eight sailors went down with the ship, many never surviving the initial torpedo hits. As the last of the "Helena" disappeared below the ocean s surface, the remaining crewmen s struggle for survival had only just begun."Sunk in Kula Gulf" tells the epic story of the "Helena" s survivors. Two destroyers plucked more than seven hundred from the sea in a night rescue operation as the battle continued to rage. A second group of eighty-eight sailors clustered into three lifeboats made it to a nearby island and was rescued the next day. A third group of survivors, spread over a wide area, was missed entirely. Clinging to life rafts or debris, the weary men were pushed away from the area of the sinking by a strong current. After enduring days at sea under the hot tropical sun, they finally found land. It was, however, the Japanese-held island of Vella Lavella and deep behind the front lines. The survivors organized and disappeared into the island s interior jungle. Living a meager existence, the group evaded the Japanese for eight days until the Marines and U.S. Navy evacuated the shipwrecked sailors in a daring rescue operation. Using a wide variety of sources, including previously unpublished firsthand accounts, John J. Domagalski brings to life this amazing, little-known story from World War II."
Author: Michael J Tougias Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1681771713 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 303
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On May 19, 1942, a U-boat in the Gulf of Mexico stalked its prey fifty miles from New Orleans. Captained by twenty nine-year-old Iron Cross and King's Cross recipient Erich Wurdemann, the submarine set its sights on the freighter Heredia with sixty-two souls on board. Most aboard were merchant seamen, but there were also a handful of civilians, including the Downs family: Ray and Ina, and their two children, eight-year-old Sonny and eleven-year-old Lucille. Fast asleep in their berths, the Downs family had no idea that two torpedoes were heading their way. When the ship exploded, chaos ensued—and each family member had to find their own path to survival. Including original, unpublished material from Commander Wurdemann’s war diary, the story provides balance and perspective by chronicling the daring mission of the U-boat—and its commander’s decision-making—in the Gulf of Mexico. An inspiring historical narrative, So Close to Home tells the story of the Downs family as they struggle against sharks, hypothermia, drowning, and dehydration in their effort to survive the aftermath of this deadly attack off the American coast.
Author: Jack D. Coombe Publisher: Bantam ISBN: 9780553381061 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 268
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Here is the acclaimed historical account of the last major naval battles of the Civil War that took place in the Gulf of Mexico. Losing the Gulf battle closed off the Confederacy's only hope for desperately needed supplies and cash, and forced the Confederacy into a hind war it could not win.
Author: Edwin E. Moïse Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press ISBN: 0807863483 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 325
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Retracing the confused pattern of planning for escalation of the Vietnam War, Moise reconstructs the events of the night of August 4, 1964, when the U.S. Navy destroyers Maddox and Turner Joy reported that they were under attack by North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin. Using declassified records and interviews with the participants, Moise demonstrates that there was no North Vietnamese attack; the original report was a genuine mistake.
Author: Jim Bunch Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1467137677 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 192
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From January to July 1942, more than seventy-five ships sank to North Carolina's "Graveyard of the Atlantic" off the coast of the Outer Banks. German U-boats sank ships in some of the most harrowing sea fighting close to America's shore. Germany's Operation Drumbeat, led by Admiral Karl Donitz, brought fear to the local communities. A Standard oil tanker sank just sixty miles from Cape Hatteras. The U-85 was the first U-boat sunk by American surface forces, and local divers later discovered a rare Enigma machine aboard. Author Jim Bunch traces the destructive history of world war on the shores of the Outer Banks.
Author: Estate of R S Crenshaw Publisher: Naval Institute Press ISBN: 1612515509 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 255
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Today only a select few know firsthand what it is like to feel their ship shudder from the blast of their own guns, watch enemy guns flash back, and see friendly ships erupt in flames. Russell Crenshaw is one of those few. His riveting account of the savage night battle for the Solomon Islands in early 1943 offers readers a unique insider’s perspective from the decks of one of the destroyers that bore the brunt of the struggle. Russell Crenshaw was a gunnery officer on the USS Maury. His vivid, balanced, and detailed narrative includes the Battle of Tassafarounga in November 1942 and Vella Gulf in August 1943, actions that earned his warship a Presidential Unit Citation and sixteen battle stars. Crenshaw also discusses the impact of radar and voice radio, the shortcomings of U.S. torpedoes and gunfire, and the devastating effectiveness of Japan’s super torpedo.
Author: Melanie Wiggins
Author: Melanie Wiggins
Author: Melanie Wiggins
Author: Homer H Hickam
Author: John J. Domagalski
Author: New York Public Library
Author: Michael J Tougias
Author: Jack D. Coombe
Author: Edwin E. Moïse
Author: Jim Bunch
Author: Estate of R S Crenshaw