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WW2 Naval Warfare
WW2 naval warfare was fought in both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, between the Allies and the Axis forces. Both forces utilized submarines, destroyers, and battleships including air force support and amphibious landings as part of the naval warfare.
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Is there a crew list for Corvette HMS Starwort?
Is there a crew list for HMS Storwort - flower class ship.
J Merchant
Did the resistance sink danish navy ships durning ww2?
The Navy it selves refuse to give vessels to the German Army. To ensure this would not happen, the Danish navy desided to sink their own ships while in habor. A battle broke out with german soldiers, however the opperation was a success and no ships where granted to the enemy of Denmark
Who was in command of the pacific fleets for the allies?
The man in command of all US naval forces in the Pacific was Admiral Chester Nimitz.
What type of guns did the Yamato battleship use?
The Yamato and Musashi were Yamato Class battleships that each had 18.1 inch naval guns as their main armament ~ see related link below to additional information .
How many conflicts have thebritish army been involved in since world war 2?
It depends on your definition of conflict. If you include "policing actions" then the total would be more.
Conflicts include The Korean War, Malaysia, Kenya, Suez, Borneo, Belize, The Falklands War, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan.
There may be more.
How many guns were on the HMS Sirius?
Sirius was originally built with 10 x 5.25 inch and 5 x 20mm single mountings.
As most vessels added anti-aircraft weapons during their service this changed as the war progressed.
Some warships were built to very tight limits, so too much weight added later affected their stability. This class of warship was one of those.
By April 1945 she had 10 x 5.25, 2 x 40mm and 5 x 20mm guns. Very little change from 1942.
What did operation sea lion gain or lose?
Operation sea lion never actually happened. It was Hitler's planned invasion of Britain, but when Goering's Luftwaffe failed to destroy the British RAF in the Battle of Britain, Hitler postponed iit several times, and then canceled it.
Submarine detecton device used by surface ships in World War 2?
In Britain, ASDIC.
In America SONAR.
Different names for the same thing!
What is the name of the bomb put on china by America in second world war?
China was an ally in WWII. The AVG (American Volunteer Group, better known as the Flying Tigers) were based in China. The first B-29 Superfortress raids were launched from Chinese airfields. When the words "the bomb" is used, it normally refers to "the A-bomb", meaning the Atomic Bomb. Those devices weren't used against our ally...they were used against the enemy during WWII; Japan. Two were detonated: one on the city of Hiroshima and the other on Nagasaki in 1945. USA USA USA
The turning point of the war in the pacific occured on what island?
Guadalcanal was America's first offensive.
The most powerful ship in the US Navy was the?
Gun wise, was an Iowa class battleship. Most powerful (regardless of guns) was an aircraft carrier, most likely an Essex or Midway class during the war. The USS Enterprise was the most decorated USN warship of WWII, but was a Yorktown class carrier.
*It was the "Constitution"*
What was the last island siezed during World War 2 in the pacific?
I think the last invasion by US Forces in the Pacific is Okinawa. As with all the invasions it comes at a heavy price. The Japanese defenses are very hard to defeat and the death toll is high.
What is the size of the schooner?
Size is not a defining factor in the schooner. This is a fore and aft rigged sailing vessel with 2 or more masts. I have seen schooners from 90 feet to over 200 feet long.
Questioner, Im sorry, but some people have reported this question as abuse. Have a nice day.
Where & when the keel was laid down; meaning when they started building the bottom of the ship (the keel is the bottom of the ship). Like a person's spine and ribs, a ship is the same way, only made of metal instead of bone.
A schooner is a type of sailing vessel, which were not employed during WW2.
What are the names of the people who fought as desert rats in World War 2?
The term desert rats was coined from the Seventh Armoured Division, a group of British soldiers who helped defeat the Germans in North Africa during World War II. The Desert Rats, led by General Allen Francis Harding, were especially noted for a hard-fought, three-month campaign against the more experienced German Africa Korps, led by General Erwin Rommel.
What is the USS Indianapolis story?
USS Indianapolis (CA-35) was a heavy cruiser sunk in the Philippine Sea on July 30, 1945 by a Japanese submarine. Most of the crew survived the initial sinking but were four days in the water, where most of them died due to a combination of exposure, dehydration, and shark attacks because the Navy did not know the ship had been lost and thus were not looking for survivors.
USS Indianapolis had delivered critical parts for the Hiroshima atomic bomb to Tinian just a few days earlier and was enroute to Leyte when she was struck by two torpedoes fired from I58 just after midnight July 30, 1945. She sank in just 12 minutes. Subsequent testimony was that the ship transmitted three distress calls which the Navy long insisted were never received, but this is disputed today. The ship was still in a radio silence status as a result of her recent secret mission, and a murky Navy policy showed her arriving safely in Leyte when in fact she had not. Meanwhile there were 880 men in the water slowly dying. When the survivors were accidentally discovered and rescued four days later, only 317 ultimately lived. It remains the worst single loss of life at sea in the history of the U.S. Navy, and a source of controversy to this day.
The Navy may have made a scapegoat of the captain, Captain Charles Butler McVay III. He survived and became the only captain of a combat-lost U.S. warship court martialed in WW2. Mochitsura Hashimoto, the skipper of I58 who torpedoed him, was called to testify at McVay's court martial. Hashimoto testified that zigzagging would have made no difference, but McVay was convicted of failing to zigzag despite the fact that his orders made zigzagging discretionary. He shot himself to death in 1968, clutching a toy plastic sailor. In October 2000 President Bill Clinton signed a resolution exonerating McVay for the loss of the USS Indianapolis.
Suggestions for further reading on this fascinating, tragic episode include:
All the Drowned Sailors, by Raymond B. Lech, Jove Books, New York,
In Harm's Way: the sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the extraordinary story of its survivors, by Doug Stanton, H. Holt, 2001.
Who was the supreme allied commander for pacific theater of operation?
The two main Allied commanders in the PTO were Commander-in-Chief Pacific Ocean Areas, the title held by Admiral Chester Nimitz and Supreme Allied Commander South West Pacific Area1, General Douglas MacArthur
What country's forces sank Italian battleship Roma?
The Italian battleship ROMA was enroute to SURRENDER to the allies, and was intercepted by German aircraft and sunk, before it could reach allied lines.
The use of the word "surrender" in caps implies that the Germans committed a black deed by sinking the Roma, a battleship of a surrendered ally. I suggest the writer of the above answer research the names "Dakar" and "Mers-el-Kabir" to see how surrendered French battleships were treated by the British. Have a nice day.
The idea that a French fleet would remain neutral when a large part of the country was essentially on the side of the Germans seems a bit odd. The French were asked politely if they would hand their ships over to their recent ally who had just rescued 120,000 French soldiers from Dunkirk, they wouldn't and they would not scuttle the ships either. Also of interest is the fact that after France surrendered more than a few of those rescued French troops went back to France, I don't know how many but it should be possible to find out various secrets permitting.
In 1927 China went into civil war. The war was between the Nationalists and the Communists. This war raged until 1937 when the two put aside their differences temporarily to fight off the Japanese Invasion. Lacking poor command and poor training, the Chinese took terrible losses but would not surrender. The were not successful in pushing the Japanese out of China until 1945 but since your question only asked until 1940 i will stop there. So basically China was in constant war between 1930 and 1940.
