The Emergence of American Amphibious Warfare, 1898–1945 examines how the United States became a military superpower through the use of amphibious operations. While other major world powers pursued and embraced different weapons and technologies to create different means of waging war, the United States was one of the few countries that spent decades training, developing, and employing amphibious warfare to ...
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"The Emergence of American Amphibious Warfare, 1898-1945"
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V & W Destroyers
A Developmental History
The revolutionary battleship Dreadnought of 1906 brought together in one package the
new technology of oil fired boilers and steam turbines, and all-big-gun armament; in doing
so she rendered all other capital ships then afloat completely obsolete. Ten years later the
V&W Class did to destroyers what the dreadnoughts had done to battleships: they set a
completely new and higher ...
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British Naval Weapons of World War Two
"The John Lambert Collection, Volume III: Coastal Forces Weapons"
John Lambert was a renowned naval draughtsman, whose plans were highly valued for their accuracy and detail by model makers and enthusiasts. By the time of his death in 2016, he had produced over 850 sheets of drawings, many of which have never been published. The initial volumes concentrate on British naval weaponry used in World War II, thus completing ...
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