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Decription:
The role of Allied naval forces in World I War 11 was decisive.
The invasion of Europe in 1944 could only have been made possible
by the maintenance of a continuing flow of food and war materiel
across the Atlantic. Germany almost won the Battle of the Atlantic
with the U-Boat campaign by March 1943. If the flow of goods to
Britain had been cut off, the opening of a second front in Europe
would have been impossible. But the convoys, destroyer escorts,
and cruisers of the Royal Navy and the US Navy won out, making the
amphibious assault on Normandy possible. To an even greater extent,
in the war in the Pacific the American Navy, having stopped the
Imperial Japanese Navy at the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway,
slowly and inexorably, through naval and aerial actions and amphibious
assaults, broke through the ring of islands forming the defense
perimeter of Japan. Once the Philippine campaign had been launched
the attack on the Japanese home islands was possible, an attack
only halted after the effects of two atomic bombs forced Japan to
surrender. In Navies of World War 2 - An Illustrated History,
Antony Preston, a distinguished naval historian, brilliantly
and dramatically tells the story of the ships, weapons, and men
that stopped the advance of the Axis powers and then destroyed them,
in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Mediterranean theatres of World War
2.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The Royal Navy 1939-41
- The Italian and French Navies
- Naval Operations ( September 1939-
December 1941)
- The German Navy
- The US Navy
- The Imperial Japanes navy
- The Battle of the Atlantic
- Amphibious Warfare
- Midway to Okinawa
Conclusion / index / acknowledgements
- Total pages : 221 pages
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