America's Sailors in the Great War
Seas, Skies, and Submarines
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2017]
Format: Book
Description: xi, 328 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
"The First World War demanded of the American Navy radically different solutions, skills and thinking. The US fleet of big ships designed to fight other big ships in classic line-of-battle formation entered an unprecedented global conflict with no answer to a German innovation--the U-boat. The navy's few primitive ocean-going submarines and an entirely new type of small warship, aptly named the subchaser, helped secure an eventual victory over the U-boat. A comprehensive convoy system quickly became a critical element in the maritime conflict demanding the escort service of nearly every destroyer in the American fleet and the outstanding seamanship that went with it." --From jacket.
Series: American military experience series.
Contents:
Introduction -- State of play -- Beat to quarters -- Aloft -- "Drab effidiency" : the making of the convoy system -- Sending the hunters -- Battleship boys -- Keeping the seas -- Chasers -- Barrages, batteries, bombers and battleships -- A navy second to none.
ISBN:
082622105X
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY War WWI Ros | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-311) and index.