WW2 Naval Warfare

It's generally an artillery gun designed to fire shells straight forward into the sky to shoot down aircraft. The shells generally exploded next to enemy planes. German AA guns shot down over 37,000 Allied bombers.

Anti aircraft shells have flack or pieces of metal material when they explode this material flys out in many directions something similar to a fragmentation grenade

It was necessary because then every convoy could be escorted by destroyers to protect them from German U-boats. The destroyers were armed with sonar and depth charges to find and destroy German Subs.

dec. 8

That was actually 7 th December,1941, -the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

During WWII, women in the United States went to work in the defense industry because the men were off fighting the war. They left the kitchen for the aircraft assembly line. They did many of the jobs that men did - they riveted, packed munitions, learned to pilot and trained others to pilot. When he war was over, most went back to housewife, but many others did not. American women had learned to go to work.

The US originally obtained Guam when it was ceded to them by Spain after the Spanish/American war in 1898.

Guam was invaded by Japan on December 8 1941 and recaptured on July 21 1944.

US designer, John Moses Browning, designed the current .50 caliber machine gun, as well as the .30 caliber m.g. in WW1 (1917). Those m.g.'s were used in WW2. The only new types of m.g.'s were the submachine guns that were developed in the 1920's (Thompson's .45 submachine-gun), and the M-3 Grease Gun. Sub machine guns fired PISTOL ammo. The US used the same machine guns in WW1 (foreign machine guns as well as Browning's weapons), WW2, and the Korean War (which used WW2 equipment since there was only a 5 year time gap between the two wars). The Vietnam War saw the US Army's first use of new machine guns, such as the M-60 machine gun and the M-16 Assault Rifle, which was the ONE and ONLY time that the average US Rifleman (Grunt) was armed with a fully automatic rifle for general issue (standard issue). After the Viet War, the M-16's were converted to short round bursts (no more rock 'n roll-fully automatic fire).

In WWII, it was called the Kriegsmarine (War Navy). After WWII, it was called the Bundesmarine (Federal Navy).

Today, it is the Deutsche Marine (German Navy).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Navy

Culturally similar, tensions existed between the US and the UK from the Revolution through the end of the Civil War. WWI and WWII were the building blocks of the trans-atlantic alliance.

The US and UK are allies through mutual national interests. The UK needs US military support to pursue its interests and the US needs British bases throughout the world to project its power. Many key US bases are actually on British territory. Also, if the US wants to project its power somewhere, its politically useful to have even a token British presence on the gunline and at the UN Security Council. Also, since its usually illegal for either country to spy on its own citizens, its handy having a friendly and trustworthy power to do it for you and vice versa.

The Aircraft Carrier USS Ronald Reagan can carry of 5,500 sailors and over 80 aircraft. Displacement: 101,000 to 104,000 tons full load Length: Overall: 1,092 ft (333 m)

Waterline: 1,040 ft (317 m) Beam: Overall: 252 ft (76.8 m)

Waterline: 134 ft (40.8 m) Draught: Maximum navigational: 37 ft (11.3 m)

Limit: 41 ft (12.5 m) Propulsion: 2 × Westinghouse A4W nuclear reactors

4 × steam turbines

4 × shafts

260,000 shp (194 MW) Speed: 30+ knots (56+ km/h) Range: Essentially unlimited Complement: Ship's company: 3,200

Air wing: 2,480 Sensors and processing systems: SPS-48E 3-D air search radar

SPS-49A(V)1 2-D air search radar

Mk 23 target acquisition radar

2 × SPN-46 air traffic control radars

SPN-43B air traffic control radar

SPN-44 landing aid radars

3 × Mk 91 NSSM guidance systems

3 × Mk 95 radars Electronic warfare and decoys: SLQ-32A(V)4 Countermeasures suite

SLQ-25A Nixie torpedo countermeasures Armament: 2 × Mk 29 Sea Sparrow

2 × RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile

Armour: Unknown Aircraft carried: 90 fixed wing and helicopters Motto: Peace Through Strength Nickname: Gipper

For sinking the British flag ship HMS Hood in a lucky hit. She was also famous due to the fact she has been incorrectly called the biggest and most powerful battleship of all time. Also due to the sheer determination to kill her in Britain has lead to her being remembered.

No simple answer. Many books have been written about the subject. There were various codes (not just one) in use by the Germans in WW2. The Germans had different codes for the German Foreign Service, Military Intelligence, Navy, Army, Air Force, etc. Some were broken easily, until the Germans changed them. The British, French or Americans would crack them (entirely or a portion) for a short time until the next change. It was a process that never ended and continued the entire pre-war and war period. The most important German Code was code-named by the Allies: "Ultra". It was broken over a period of years. This is probably 'the code' that you have heard about. Google Ultrafor more details.

Midway, May-June 1942. Three U.S. carriers fought four Japanese carriers. One American carrier was sunk; all four Japanese carriers went down, with most of their aircraft and many of the highly trained air crew. This was the first major challenge to Japanese industrial ability to repair and replace on a large scale; Japanese industry failed the taste

Germany was always overlooked as the underdog, the country that was barbarian-like. During the 1900s, the German industry was rapidly increasing, challenging Britain to its exports, and length of transportation and army size. Then, as that happened, the Germans became proud of themselves, and wanted to overpower Britain and become the superior empire. They challenged Britain and felt as if there was no way that they could lose.

On the other hand, Britain had centuries of power and had always been superior. When Germany started threatening its power, they panicked. The Germans' attitude towards war was offensive while the British were defensive, saying that they'd only fight if they had no other choice while protecting their nation and colonies.

While all that was happening, Austria-Hungary was trying to control its colonies while Serbia and the Balkan countries wanted independence. So when Archduke Franz Ferdinand visited Serbia on their national holiday, the Serbians were offended and decided to attempt to assassinate him and his wife. Although the assassination was amateur, the Archduke and Archduchess were still assassinated after two pathetic attempts.

With that, Austria-Hungary consulted Germany on their plan to declare war on Serbia and Germany promised their support. The Germans and Austria-Hungary felt superior since Serbia was such a small and weak country that had no colonies. Little did they know that Serbia consulted Russia and the Russians promised their support if anyone would ever attack Serbia, that they would be there for them. With that, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia and that triggered WWI.

Following that, Germany declared war on France, and Britain declared war on Germany and etc.

On September 4, 1941, The USS Greer was the first United States ship fired upon by a German submarine in the war, even though the United States is a neutral power. On October 31, 1941 The destroyer USS Reuben James was torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 United States Navy sailors.

Might be Wake Island I know our troops were left there by the navy and when thousands of Japanese troops landed on the beach we opened up killing them all with minimal casualties. Don't quote me on it, it is a wild guess like all my other answers based on my knowledge.

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It was in fact called the Battle of the Philippine Sea.

On active duty: USS Kitty Hawk, USS Enterprise, USS Nimitz, USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, USS Carl Vinson, USS Theodore Roosevelt, USS Abraham Lincoln, USS George Washington, USS John C. Stennis, USS Harry S. Truman, and USS Ronald Reagan.

Kitty Hawk and Enterprise are no longer in commission. Kitty Hawk was decommissioned in 2009 and Enterprise in 2013. USS George H.W. Bush was commissioned in 2009, giving the USN a total of 10 active carriers.

The Bismark was sunk on 27 - May - 1941 in the North Atlantic by units of the Royal Navy Home Fleet.

On 19 - May - 1941 Bismark and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen sank the flagship of the home fleet HMS Hood in a short engagement (the entire attack took only 17 minutes. This led Prime Minister Churchill to issue the order to "Sink the Bismark".

Two days later (21 - May - 1941) Bismark was attacked by planes from HMS Ark Royal. This attack disabled her rudder and slowed her sufficiently to allow the heavy armor of the British fleet to catch her.

The morning of 27 - May -1941 HMS Rodney and HMS King George V, along with several cruisers and destroyers caught Bismark and, in a two hour engagement, sank her. Of the 2,200 crew members on Bismark at the time of her sinking, only 205 survived.

Save Great Britain first was the translation. Only Britain opposed Germany until the spring of 1941. By spring of '41 Russian and Germany were at it. The policy was to preserve England, not let it lose to Germany; and US men and material went to Europe first to defeat Germany first. This was all the result of Winston Churchill's lobbying effort to FDR...which apparently worked. The People of the United States WANTED to attack Japan first...but good ole Churchill...

From September 1939 to August 1945. Britain was involved in all theatres of WW2. It was a very costly struggle, lasting for very nearly 6 years.

Britain was the only country to fight throughout the whole of WW2

They were cheated like Jesus

The Japanese aggression started long before what we know as WW2, in the early 30's when they invaded China and Korea. After December 1941 they expanded their aggression even more trying to take over almost all of the Pacific.

The Cuban missile crisis in the early 1960's.

Yes. The British were worried that the French fleet might be seized by the Germans (even though the fleet had been left out of the armistice treaty) and used against them. Orders had been given by Admiral Darlan, the French naval commander, to sink the boats rather than let the Germans seize them, but that wasn't known to Churchill (that order was obeyed by the fleet in Toulon in 1942, when the Germans decided to invade the rest of France). A French naval squadron in the port of Mers El-Kebir, cannons facing the port, was cornered by mines dropped by English planes and shelled without warning or mercy. 1297 French seamen lost their lives (versus two English seamen). The resentment in France was huge and exploited for years by the Nazis' propaganda.

The supreme U.S. Naval commander for the Pacific theater during WW2 was Admiral Chester W Nimitz. Admirals Halsey, Sprunace, Fletcher, and Lee all held senior fleet commands, but were subordinate to Nimitz.