McFarland and Company, 2009. — 377 p. Here is a comprehensive accounting of all United States and allied submarine attacks on the Japanese for which success was claimed or occurred. The expanded coverage focuses on successes by U.S. and British and Dutch submarines in the Pacific and Indian oceans, Soviet submarines, and losses caused by mines laid by submarines. The book also...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 337 p. When the nuclear-powered submarine USS Triton was commissioned in November 1959, its commanding officer, Captain Edward L. Beach, planned a routine shakedown cruise in the North Atlantic. Two weeks before the scheduled cruise, however, Beach was summoned to Washington and told of the immediate necessity to prove the reliability of the...
The History Press, 2016. — 128 p. The ingenious people of the Garden State were instrumental in the early development of the submarine. The first American submarine sank off Fort Lee in 1776, and the first successful one adopted by the U.S. Navy was invented by Paterson's John Holland at the end of the nineteenth century. Those early vessels were tested in the Passaic River and...
Arcadia, 2005. — 131 p. The first U.S. naval submarine base traces its origin to 1868, when the state of Connecticut and the city of New London granted the navy one hundred twelve acres of land across the Thames River in Groton. Naval Submarine Base New London shows how this land developed from a depot for dry-docked ships and a coaling station for navy warships to its present...
J. B. Lippincott, 1975. — 1114 p. — ISBN: 0397007531. A detailed reconstruction of United States submarine activity in the Pacific between December 1941 and August 1945, assessing the submarine's role in the overall War and profiling outstanding and representative officers and crew members.
Dodd, Mead & Company, USA, 1957. — 74 p. — ISBN: N/A The story of the submarine is the story of the fulfillment of one of man's oldest dreams—to travel under water. Before the invention of the atomic submarine, how ever, this dream was never fully realized. Submarines built previously were not true submarines, but merely surface ships which could duck under water for short...
Naval War College Press, 2003. — 107 p. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, submarines have been the weapon of choice for weaker naval powers that wish to contest a dominant power’s control of the seas or its ability to project power ashore from the sea. This is because submarines have been and are likely to remain the weapon system with the highest leverage in a battle...
Nebraska University Press, 2014. — 151 p. The submarine was one of the most revolutionary weapons of World War I, inciting both terror and fascination for militaries and civilians alike. During the war, after U-boats sank the Lusitania and began daring attacks on shipping vessels off the East Coast, the American press dubbed these weapons “Hun Devil Boats,” “Sea Thugs,” and...
Open Road Media, 2014. — 372 p. Commander Edward Ellsberg rose to fame after leading the harrowing effort to raise the sunken submarine S-51 just off Long Island. That is where he begins Men Under the Sea, his tribute to and history of the men who risk everything to plunge into the blackness of the deep sea. Ellsberg holds an expert’s knowledge of deep-sea salvage, and that...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 208 p. One of the U.S. Navy's best known submarine officers, Capt. Edward L. Beach, enjoyed fame both as a bestselling author and as a highly decorated naval officer. Not long after the success of his first novel Run Silent, Run Deep, which was later made into a major feature film, he commanded the first submarine to circumnavigate the globe...
University of Illinois Press, 1997. — 464 p. The thunderous roar of exploding depth charges was a familiar and comforting sound to the crew members of the USS Barb, who frequently found themselves somewhere between enemy fire and Davy Jones's locker. Under the leadership of her fearless skipper, Captain Gene Fluckey, the Barb sank the greatest tonnage of any American sub in...
Annapolis, Maryland: US Naval Institute Press, 1995. — 400 p. — ISBN: 1-55750-263-3. This large-format book, the seventh in Friedman's acclaimed design history series, is lavishly illustrated. Detailed inboard profiles of every distinct type of submarine the U.S. Navy bought between 1900 and 1945 (and also types exported by U.S. builders) show how the submarines changed. The...
Motorbooks International, 1997. — 98 p. — (Enthusiast Color Series). — ISBN: 0760302766. The Genat's have combined pictures and honest, thoughtful narrative into an easy-reading and highly informative look at US Navy submarines, breaking out the topics by chapters on attack subs, ballistic missile subs, the then-new Seawolf class, training, and living on a submarine. The...
Pegasus Books, 2017. — 352 p. From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea to The Hunt for Red October, readers the world over have demonstrated an enduring fascination with travel under the sea. Yet the riveting story behind the invention of the submarine—an epic saga of genius, persistence, ruthlessness, and deceit—is almost completely unknown. Like Henry Ford and the Wright...
Casemate, 2012. — 352 p. This book takes you through the war as you learn what it was like to serve on submarines in combat, the exhilaration of a successful attack, and the terror of being depth-charged. And aside from enemy action, the sea itself could prove to be an extremely hostile environment as many of these stories attest. From early war patrols in obsolescent,...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2019. — 234 p. In 1900, the US Navy took its first submarine, the Holland VI, into service. With a single torpedo tube, it had a crew of six, weighed eighty-two tons, and traveled submerged at 6.2mph at a depth of up to seventy-five feet. Contrast this to the 18 Ohio Class nuclear-powered submarines that entered service in 1981. Weighing 21,000 tons with...
Free Press, 2014. — 256 p. Hanging on display in the United States Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., is a battered and scratched steel plate, two feet in diameter, edged with more than one hundred little semicircles. For more than eighty years, people have wondered how it came to be there and at the story it could tell. Under Pressure: The Final Voyage of Submarine S-Five is that...
Naval Institute Press, 2001. — 212 p. During World War II, the submarine service of the U.S. Navy suffered the highest percentage of losses of any branch of the American armed forces, with almost one in five vessels failing to return. Despite these heavy losses, however, submarines accounted for more than fifty-five percent of Japanese shipping losses. This book, first...
Naval Institute Press, 1993. — 182 p. Spectacular color photographs and a lively text tell the story of the submarine in this companion volume to a four-part documentary television series produced by the Discovery Channel. Generally following the program's format, the book significantly amplifies the subject, both for longtime fans and for those whose interest in submarines has...
Penguin Publishing, 2022. — 252 p. — ISBN-13 9780593185971. — ISBN-10 0593185978. The remarkable true story of Eugene Fluckey, the US Navy’s most innovative—and aggressive—submarine commander of World War II. Over the course of five combat patrols during the Pacific War, Commander Fluckey reinvented submarine warfare, pioneering audacious strategies to hunt and sink Japanese...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2011. — 208 p. The remarkable true story of Dudley “Mush” Morton, the most admired—and feared—submarine commander of World War II. Mush Morton was a warrior without peer. At the helm of the USS Wahoo he completely changed the way the submarines fought in the Pacific War. He would relentlessly attack the Japanese at every opportunity, burning through...
Da Capo Press, 2008. — 288 p. By October 1944, the US Navy submarine Tang was legendary - she had sunk more enemy ships, and pulled off daring surface attacks than any other Allied submarine in the Pacific. This book tells the story of nine men who fought the Japanese from America's deadliest submarine, survived its sinking and endured months of brutal torture in captivity.
New York: Dutton and Company, 1951. — 416 p. For this factually accurate and technically correct account of operations of United States submarines in the Pacific in World War II no more appropriate tide could have been chosen than Sink 'Em All, a statement easily confirmed by the record. As British airmen are credited with saving Britain in those critical days after Dunkirk, so...
Xlibris, 2018. — 400 p. As the war in the Pacific progressed, the role of the US submarines evolved to meet the challenges confronting the United States Navy in the Western Pacific. This story is vividly portrayed in Patrol Area 14 and details the exploits of the US submarines in one specific patrol area of the Pacific Ocean, the waters of the Mariana Islands, whose control...
Naval Institute Press, 2015. — 219 p. Silent and Unseen is a memoir of a submariner's life on a U.S. attack submarine during the Cold War by Capt. Alfred S. McLaren, an experienced submarine officer and nuclear attack submarine commander. He describes in riveting detail the significant events that occurred early in the Cold War during his seven years, 1958-1965, on board three...
Naval Institute Press, 2015. — 258 p. Silent and Unseen is a memoir of a submariner's life on a U.S. attack submarine during the Cold War by Capt. Alfred S. McLaren, an experienced submarine officer and nuclear attack submarine commander. He describes in riveting detail the significant events that occurred early in the Cold War during his seven years, 1958-1965, on board three...
Naval Institute Press, 2011. — 228 р. — ISBN 978-1591145325. Cmdr. Lawson Paterson Red Ramage was among an elite group of just seven U.S. submariners who were awarded the Medal of Honor during World War II and the first not to die in the course of his heroic exploits. He was honored for his actions in the Pacific on the night of 31 July 1944 when he kept his submarine, USS...
Lyons Press, 2011. — 512 p. In April 1944, the highly decorated submarine USS Gudgeon slipped beneath the waves somewhere in the South China Sea, one of the most dangerous patrol areas in the most dangerous military service during World War II. Neither the Gudgeon nor the crew were ever seen again. Author Mike Ostlund's "Uncle Bill" was aboard the ship as a lieutenant junior...
Lyons Press, 2017. — 224 p. — ISBN: 1493027530. On the morning of April 10, 1963, the world's most advanced submarine was on a test dive off the New England coast when she sent a message to a support ship a thousand feet above her on the surface: experiencing minor problem...have positive angle...attempting to blow...Then came the sounds of air under pressure and a garbled...
Naval Institute Press, 2021. — 304 p. We were certainly pioneers as the Trieste was one of only two such vehicles in the world--the French Navy's bathyscaphe FNRS-3 was the other. It meant that we had to 'write the book' about deep submergence operations in terms of technique and technologies. We learned by doing and by failures, although very few of the latter were serious....
Simon and Schuster, 1982. — 745 p. The Biography of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, the acknowledges "Father of the Nuclear Navy". Rickover was an acknowledged leader and engineering genius, he was also known for his ascorbic personality. He served his country for 60 years in the Navy.Over these years he made many powerful friends and just as powerful enemies. Finally president...
William Morrow, 2010. — 400 p. Few know how close the world has come to annihilation better than the warriors who served America during the tense, forty-six-year struggle known as the Cold War. Yet for decades their work has remained shrouded in secrecy. Now, in this riveting new history, W. Craig Reed, a former U.S. Navy diver and fast-attack submariner, provides an eye-opening,...
Naval Institute Press, 1995. — 448 p. Drawing from accounts by his father and other former crew members as well as documentary records, Peter Sasgen offers a dramatic account of the US submarine in the Pacific during World War II, where she sank more tons of enemy ship than all but one other sub. Includes a few diagrams, but no maps.
Penguin Publishing Group, 2010. — 352 p. By 1945, the U.S. Navy's submarine force in the Pacific had sunk over a thousand enemy cargo ships and tankers supplying the food, weapons, and oil Japan needed to continue to fight. Yet this once mighty merchant fleet continued to thrive in the Sea of Japan, where, protected from American submarines by a seemingly impenetrable barrier of...
St. Martin's Press, 2009. — 297 p. Thrilling submarine espionage and an inside look at the U.S. Navy’s silent service. Stalking the Red Bear, for the first time ever, describes the action principally from the perspective of a commanding officer of a nuclear submarine during the Cold War—the one man aboard a sub who makes the critical decisions—taking readers closer to the Soviet...
University Press of Kentucky, 2000. — 340 p. A fascinating personal memoir of underwater combat in World War II, told by a man who played a major role in those dangerous operations. Frank and beautifully written, Submarine Commander's breezy style and irrepressible humor place it in a class by itself. This book will be of lasting value as a submarine history by an expert and as...
Naval Institute Press, 2009. — 212 p. A sailor's extraordinary experiences on an American submarine in the Pacific are candidly reported in this eyewitness account of war from a torpedoman's perspective. Robert Hunt managed to survive twelve consecutive war patrols on the submarine USS Tambor. During the course of the war, Hunt was everywhere that mattered in the Pacific. He...
Simon and Schuster, 2013. — 448 p. Focusing on the unique stories of three of the war’s top submarines—Silversides, Drum, and Tang—James Scott takes readers beneath the waves to experience the determination, heroism, and tragedy that defined the submarine service. From the thrill of a torpedo hit on a loaded freighter to the terror of depth charge attacks that shattered gauges and...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 176 p. The USS Bullhead was the last American naval vessel lost in World War II. This history of the submarine--from launch to disappearance--is told by the only war correspondent allowed on a wartime submarine patrol. Narrow escapes from floating mines, fast dives to avoid enemy aircraft, and a daring sortie to rescue three badly hurt survivors...
Squadron/Signal Publications, 2006. — 52 p. — (Warships 28). American submarines were a decisive element in winning WWII in the Pacifiic accounting for more than half of the nearly 10 million tons of Japanese naval and merchant shipping lost during the war, while also carrying out such other important duties as pilot rescue, reconnaissance and espionage. The burden of the...
Regnery Publishing, 2012. — 256 p. Fatal Dive: Solving the World War II Mystery of the USS Grunion by Peter F. Stevens reveals the incredible true story of the search for and discovery of the USS Grunion. Discovered in 2006 after a decades-long, high-risk search by the Abele brothers—whose father commanded the submarine and met his untimely death aboard it—one question...
Dodd, Mead & Co, 1982. — 136 p. A history of the development and an account of the activities of nuclear submarines in the United States. An appendix lists all the nuclear submarines of the United States Navy.
Ballantine Books, 2006. — 456 p. Describes the life and naval career of Congressional Medal of Honor winner Captain Richard O'Kane and the patrols of United States submarines in the Pacific theater during World War II. Hailed as the ace of aces, captain Richard O’Kane, winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor for his consummate skill and heroism as a submarine skipper, sank...
The Official Magazine of the U.S. Submarine Force. Military Editor Undersea Warfare CNO N97 2000 Navy Pentagon, Washington. - 32 с. Официальный журнал подводного флота США. На англ. яз.
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Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., 2001. — 58 p. — ISBN: 0933126727. This is a terrific photo history of U.S. Submarines of World War II. History of the Gato, Balco and Trench class submarines, 84 photos, technical data, cut away drawings and blueprints. A Must Have book for submarine and WW II enthusiasts and historians.
Argo-Navis, 2013. — 446 p. Taller in length than the Washington Monument, wider at its center than a three-lane highway, the 18,750-ton Trident nuclear submarine is the most complex war machine the United States Navy has ever produced: a 1.8 billion marvel crammed with more modern military technology than any other vessel in the world. Deep beneath the ocean it can sail for...
Naval Institute Press, 2011. — 171 p. In the 1930s, the Portsmouth Navy Yard in New Hampshire built less than two submarines a year, yet in 1944 it completed an astonishing 32 submarines, and over the course of the war produced 37 per cent of all U.S. submarines. This book analyzes the factors behind the small yard s record-setting production, including streamlined operations,...
University of Michigan Library, 1991. — 188 p. In this volume, Gary E. Weir assesses the American Navy's efforts between 1914 and 1940 to develop effective submarines. In particular, the author describes the work of the Navy and private industry that allowed the relatively primitive submersible of the First World War period to be replaced by the fleet submarine that fought in...
Berkley Hardcover, 2007. — 432 p. In World War II, a chosen few fought a silent war beneath the waves. These are their stories. In the dark days after Pearl Harbor (1941), the small, ill-equipped arm of the Navy known as Submarine Force would stand between the shattered U.S. Pacific Fleet and the might of the Japanese Navy. Unfortunately, the spirit and courage of the Submarine...
Chicago Review Press, 2015. — 304 p. The rescue divers could hear the crew tapping out a message in Morse code: “Is there any hope?” After being accidentally rammed by the Coast Guard destroyer USS Paulding on December 17, 1927, the USS S-4 submarine sank to the ocean floor off Cape Cod with all forty crew aboard. Only six sailors in the forward torpedo room survived the...
Naval Institute Press, 1981. — 172 p. This handy deeply book is absolutely essential to individuals preparing for assignments involving the starting officer's management, naval service and operation of small naval craft (boats). This book is a one of a kind. I wish that I would have had it earlier in my Naval career. The information contained in theses pages should be required...
М.: Моркнига, 2015. — 208 с. — ISBN: 978-5-98308-016-4. Монография посвящена подводным лодкам мобилизационного типа - Gato, Balao и Tench. Рассказано об истории их создания, постройки, боевого использования и послевоенной эксплуатации, а также об их зарубежных аналогах. Даны сведения о конструкции, вооружении, модернизации и переоборудовании каждого из кораблей. Проведен анализ...
М.: Родина, 2024. — 416 с. — (Война и мир). — ISBN: 978-5-00-222070-0. Подрыв трубопровода «Северный поток-2» - одно из самых трагических происшествий нашего времени. Однако такие подводные катастрофы случались и раньше. В чем их причины? Об одной из версий рассказывается в настоящем издании. Впервые в России с большим знанием дела показана деятельность военно-морской разведки...
М.: Родина, 2024. — 416 с. — (Война и мир). — ISBN: 978-5-00-222070-0. Подрыв трубопровода «Северный поток-2» - одно из самых трагических происшествий нашего времени. Однако такие подводные катастрофы случались и раньше. В чем их причины? Об одной из версий рассказывается в настоящем издании. Впервые в России с большим знанием дела показана деятельность военно-морской разведки...
М.: Родина, 2024. — 416 с. — (Война и мир). — ISBN: 978-5-00-222070-0. Подрыв трубопровода «Северный поток-2» - одно из самых трагических происшествий нашего времени. Однако такие подводные катастрофы случались и раньше. В чем их причины? Об одной из версий рассказывается в настоящем издании. Впервые в России с большим знанием дела показана деятельность военно-морской разведки...
М.: Родина, 2024. — 416 с. — (Война и мир). — ISBN: 978-5-00-222070-0. Подрыв трубопровода «Северный поток-2» - одно из самых трагических происшествий нашего времени. Однако такие подводные катастрофы случались и раньше. В чем их причины? Об одной из версий рассказывается в настоящем издании. Впервые в России с большим знанием дела показана деятельность военно-морской разведки...
Харьков: АТФ, 2002. — 60 с. В этой книге рассказывается об истории создания и развития американского подводного флота от работ Дэвида Бушнеля и Роберта Фултона до лодок "Тритон" и "Трешер". Издание содержит множество редких иллюстраций и схем, статистику боевых потерь и побед американских подводных лодок.
Харьков, 2002. Справочник предоставляет разнообразную информацию для интересующихся развитием подводного флота и его практическим применением. Особенно занимательны материалы, относящиеся уже ко 2 Мировой войне.
Мн.: Попурри, 1999. — 384 с. — (Как это было).
Трагические события на К-219 произошли в то время, когда «холодная война» была уже на исходе. Многое в этой истории до сих пор покрыто тайной. В военно-морском ведомстве США не принято разглашать сведения об операциях, в которых принимали участие американские подводные лодки. По иронии судьбы, гораздо легче получить информацию от...
Минск: Попурри, 1999. — 384 с. — (Как это было). Трагические события на К-219 произошли в то время, когда «холодная война» была уже на исходе. Многое в этой истории до сих пор покрыто тайной. В военно-морском ведомстве США не принято разглашать сведения об операциях, в которых принимали участие американские подводные лодки. По иронии судьбы, гораздо легче получить информацию от...
Москва: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1957. — 141 с. В книге дается описание боевых действий американских подводных лодок во второй мировой войне, главным образом на Тихом океане. Подробно говорится об одиночных и групповых действиях лодок против торгового флота Японии, а также действиях против ее боевых кораблей. Рассматриваются тактические приемы подводных лодок по...
Издательство политической литературы, 1965. — 64 с. Книга посвящена обстоятельствам гибели американской атомной подводной лодки «Трешер» 10 апреля 1963 года.
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