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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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What vehicles were used in wake island?
I assume that since there was a construction crew on the island there was probably some earth moving equipment such as a dump truck , bulldozer and similar vehicles . The navy and Marines would have had vehicles organic to their organisation such as trucks for general purposes and there would have been an aircraft tug for the moving of airplanes into and out of their revetments .
info below submitted 2/28/2010
In 1972, when we were there as a layover MAC Flight from Hakata Airbase in Japan. There were various small POV (personally owned) vehicles there -- as a few American made cars such as the Ford and motorcycles as you can see such as in the photo I have provided the following link for >>
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45462908@N06/4244757728/ .
This was taken in April 1972, I believe. If I can find more photos with info I will add it later.
Being only about 2.85 sq. miles, or under 1,900 acres TOTAL for all 3 small islands that make up the 'atoll', I think I recall seeing bicycles there also lol
We almost got left behind as we became absorbed in coral collecting on the beach and lost track of the time :0 the MAC flight was ready to take off and waiting for us...
How world war 2 fought on sea?
WWII was histories last:
1. Cruiser fleet actions (Battle of Java Sea)
2. Carrier clashes
3. Battleship vs Battleship clashes (Suriago Strait)
4. Destroyers vs Destroyers (Guadalcanal)
What was the name of the family who lost several sons in World War 2?
The 5 Sullivan brothers were all lost on the light cruiser USS Juneau during the Guadalcanal Sea Battles.
How long was the flight deck on the USS Enterprise?
WWII Enterprise was about 824 feet long. She was the only one of three of her class to survive the war.
What ship was JFK on during world war 2?
John F. Kennedy was commander of PT-109. PT stands for "Patrol Torpedo". These were small wooden craft about eighty feet long, with a twelve man crew. They were very fast. Their main weapon was four torpedo tubes, which gave them the capability of sinking the largest enemy ships. Out on patrol one dark night in 1943 Kennedy's boat was idling and stationary, looking for enemy ships in the Solomon Islands, when it was run over and cut in two by a Japanese destroyer, which was running without lights and appeared suddenly. One of Kennedy's men was killed in the collision and another severely burned. Kennedy led his men in a swim to an uninhabited island and for several night afterward swam out into the ocean hoping to make contact with other patrol boats from his squadron. They were eventually rescued with help from Solomon Islanders and an Australian coast watcher.
What happened to HMS Widnes around 1940?
Do you mean apart from my dad blowing up the galley? .... check out "A Sailor at War 1939-1945" in the Amazon Kindle Store which gives details of some of the ships misadventures at that time. Omegaman
Did women serve on air craft carrier's in World War 2?
Negative. Women didn't begin manning warships or warplanes until the 1990s and the 21st century.
What is a imperium neptuni regis worth?
If, by "Imperium Neptuni Regis", you are referring to a U.S. Navy "Shellback" Certificate, it would depend entirely on its age and condition. They aren't particularly sought after by anyone other than collectors.
What are the legacies of the Cold War?
The legacies of the Cold War include the enduring geopolitical tensions between the United States and Russia, as well as the proliferation of nuclear weapons, which continues to shape global security dynamics. Additionally, many regions experienced political upheaval and conflicts fueled by Cold War rivalries, leading to long-lasting instability in places like the Middle East and Latin America. The ideological divide between capitalism and communism has also left a lasting impact on global political and economic systems. Finally, the Cold War's conclusion spurred the expansion of NATO and the European Union, redefining alliances and power structures in the post-Cold War world.
How many ship sank from a storm in World War 2?
Three US Destroyers; the USS Spence, USS Monaghan, and the USS Hull were sunk in the Pacific by Typhoon Cobra in 1944.
Was HMS Tyne sunk World War 2?
Yes, it was topedoed and was sunk, and i believe the crew were picked up by the HMS Belfast and returned to England, my dad served on her.
What may have happened in world war 2 if D Day had not taken place?
Nazi Germany would have had a great place to start invading Britain, by going across the channel. The war may have went on longer if we hadnt made such a blow against Germany at Normandy.
Presuming that the cross-channel invasion of Normandy did not occur, the forces built up for that effort would have gone to one of four likely places:
- Reinforce the landings and fighting in Italy
- Strengthen Operation Dragoon, the Allied landings in southern France in August 1944.
- Equipment would have been shipped to the Soviet Union, to further increase the major Soviet Summer Offensive of 1944.
- Men (and some material) would have been shipped back over to the Pacific Theater, likely to speed the invasion of the Philippines.
The primary consequence of a failure of D-Day (whether it happened and failed, or simply couldn't be initiated at all) is that the Western Allies would almost certainly have been bogged down in South-Central France and Northern Italy when the Soviet Red Army crushed the remains of the German Eastern Armies in central Germany, likely in mid-1945. As a consequence, most of Europe would have been liberated by Communist forces, and thus, there is a very high likelihood that most of continental Europe would have fallen under direct Communist influence and have had a Communist government. That is, there would have been a United Communist Germany, and a Communist Denmark, Belgium, The Netherlands, Austria, and possibly even France and Norway.
Is the US naval ship PA 234 the USCrescent City?
I think it was the Bollinger. The APA 234 was classified as an attack transport.
Who had 3 sons killed in world war 2?
The Niland bros. are probably who you are thinking of 2 were killed (Robert and Preston) and one was MIA (Edward)so the fourth was brought back to the US (Fredrick).
Where can you find information on the sinking of ss abukir by a German mtb on 28th may 1940?
On the evening of 28th May 1940, the SS Abukir set sail from Ostend during the Dunkirk Evacuation. On board were Army personnel and civilians fleeing the beaches and heading for Dover. The Abukir was torpedeod by a German Motor topedeo boat and sunk off the Fresian Islands.
What did a sailor do during world war 2?
Several of the combatant nations of WWII had large navies, including Germany, Italy and Japan on the Axis side, France, on the Axis and then on the Allied side, and Britain and its Commonwealth nations and the US on the Allied side. The answer might depend on the navy in which a sailor was serving.
It would also depend on whether the sailor had duty aboard a ship, or shore duty. If on a ship, a warship, or an auxiliary vessel. If a warship, a big one, or a smaller one.
In the US Navy it would also depend mostly on the sailor's specialty. Everybody was a Seaman recruit when they went in the US Navy. After boot camp they might remain a seaman, or become a fireman if destined to work in the engine room of a ship, or an aviation man if he was to be an enlisted gunner or radioman on a carrier aircraft.
Every US Navy ship had the crew divided into divisions. The Deck Division took care of the ship. This was an endless routine. They swept the weather deck (the main deck exposed to the outside air) of the ship from stem to stern (front to back) every day when it wasn't raining, a "clean sweep down fore and aft". Then they swabbed the deck, that is, mopped it, with buckets of seawater and mops. Then, they holystoned the deck. The deck was teak planking laid over steel. The Deck Division took a special type of brick, used for lining the fireboxes in the boilers of the engines. These had a rough texture to the surface, and holes in them, like any brick. These were new firebricks that had not been in the engine fires. They broke them in half, and each half brick had a hole in it. They stuck a piece of a broom handle in the hole, and rubbed the rough bricks up and down every inch of each of the deck planks. so it was something like sandpapering the deck. When they got done with that, they chipped paint. Every exposed surface of the ship was painted, over and over and over again, to protect it from salt water. Before a new coat of paint was applied, the old paint was chipped, by hand, with something like a chisel or a paint scraper, to make the surface smooth. This boring, repetitive, labor-intensive, mind-numbing work was never done. Once the ship was three or four days out from land, dust disappeared, and it was easier to keep the ship clean. You only get dust from land.
Every sailor usually also stood watches. These were four hours on, four hours off, all day, all night, every day. Every sailor had a watch station. So you never got eight hours of sleep all at once. Every sailor also had a Battle Station. On the order, passed over the ship's loudspeakers, to "Man Battle Stations" there was a mad scramble as every sailor, even those in their bunks, sitting on the toilet in the head (bathroom), in the shower, off watch, ran full tilt to get to their Battle Station. The order to man battle stations was usually accompanied by the order to "Set Condition Z", which meant to close and dog down every watertight door in the ship. If the ship took damage, the watertight doors would keep flooding in the damaged area. Any men in the damaged area were likely to be drowned, of course, if not killed when the damage was inflicted. The ship had a damage control party that assembled when Battle Stations was sounded. They were ready to fight fires, man pumps to expel seawater flooding in, and try to plug holes, with mattresses. They had long pieces of timber to jam in behind the mattresses to wedge them tight up against any holes.
The Navy doesn't have sergeants, it has Petty Officers. Almost all of these Petty Officers are specialists of one kind or another. After a sailor had been on a ship a few months, he was usually given a chance to try to work at becoming a specialist in one of these areas, and work on getting promoted to Petty Officer. When he was doing this he was a "striker", striving for a particular "rating" as a Petty Officer. If he got it done he was promoted to Petty Officer 3rd Class in whatever his specialty might be. So he might be a Radioman 3rd Class, or a Gunner's Mate 3rd Class, or an Aviation Machinist Mate 3rd Class, or a Coxwain 3rd Class, and so on. There were several dozen different ratings, types of Petty Officers. He could go up to 2nd Class, then First Class, then Chief Petty Officer, and so on. The sleeve insignia for a Petty Officer is an eagle perched on top of the symbol of the man's specialty, with upside down red chevrons below, one chevron for 3rd class, two for second, three for 1st. These were referred to as "crows", because of the eagle, as in, "If you do that, you'll lose your crow".
So, on a ship, every sailor usually had somewhere specific to be, most of the time, and had lots of duties and responsibilities, but there was such a wide range of these assignments its difficult to generalize.
Why did Japanese navel AAA guns use multi colored flak?
Possibly to identify which warship was firing, which would allow that particular vessel to adjust its fire on the target. Main gun ammunition was often marked this way.
The most famous destroyer of all time, was the WW2 Fletcher class destroyers, which were capable of exceeding 33 knots. The famous WW2 Admiral Arleigh Burke was nick-named "31 Knot Burke" as a joke, when someone asked why he was only doing 31 knots, when his Fletcher "tin-cans" (slang for a WW2 destroyer) were capable of going much faster than 31 knots. The WW2 French destroyer Le Terrible once held the Guiness World Record for the fastest (47 knots) destroyer, but it may have been broken since. 31 knots was a slow destroyer speed in WW2, but any way you look at it, destroyers are still the fastest displacement warships on the high seas. Today they use gas turbines (jet engines) instead of diesel which probably makes them even faster, but they do not use their maximum speed except when necessary.
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The fastest and most famous destroyer in British Commonwealth service (and some would say the best destroyer of WWII) was the Tribal Class of 1936, used by and built in UK, Canada and Australia. Their top speed was 36 knots, and they had a heavy armament of 8 X 4.7 inch main guns.
Who is Retired US Navy Admiral Murray Michaels Rothberg?
He is one of the most interesting and kind people who frequent my place of work, Lowe's, in Simi Valley California.
