After completing his officer training and time on the training ship Niobe he served aboard the light cruiser Emden. In December ...
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As the land war raged along the Eastern Front between 1941 and 1945, an equally fierce and unrelenting war ensued on the seas. From German Wolf Pack attacks on Russian convoy traffic and military vessels to close-quarter combat undertaken by small U-boats transported by land and ...
In 1844 the USS Yorktown sailed from New York, as part of the U.S. Navy's newly established African Squadron, to interdict slave ships leaving the African coast. Aboard the sloop of war, Master's Mate John C. Lawrence, an educated New Yorker in his early twenties, kept a private journal describing what happened during the extraordinary two-year voyage and his reactions ...
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Submarines played a major role in the war at sea in the years 1939–45, and this major reference book describes all the classes of vessels that were deployed by the eighteen combatant nations during those years. They were responsible for the sinking of 33 million tons ...
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Submarines played a major role in the war at sea in the years 1939–45, and this major reference book describes all the classes of vessels that were deployed by the eighteen combatant nations during those years. They were responsible for the sinking of 33 million tons ...