This comprehensive two-volume set details the role played by the eighty-three light and heavy United States Navy cruisers that fought in World War II against the Axis Powers in the Atlantic Ocean, the English Channel, the Mediterranean Sea, ...
Available at http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/rep/Leyte/NWC-5.pdf (accessed August 18, 2006). Analysis. ——. The Battle of Savo Island, August 9th, 1942: Strategical and Tactical Newport, RI: Naval War College, 1950.
Axis cruisers built during the war were far fewer than their Allied opponents but largely reflected the same trend toward greater antiaircraft protection. The majority were Japanese and Italian, as the Germans only completed one more ...
271 pages, black and white photographic illustrations
The development of this excellent and successful class of warship only became possible after the Anglo-German naval agreement of 1935 eased restrictions on the types of ship Germany could build; even then only five of the class were ...
the aircraft must be those of the Luftwaffe and Jason signalled that she was under attack by enemy aircraft, but as the aircraft raced away the distinctive D-Day black and white 'invasion stripes' could be seen and another ship, ...
Offers a history of the German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish battleships and cruisers of World War II, and provides specifications, plans, and technical information about each ship
This superbly illustrated study, written by renowned naval expert Angus Konstam, compares and contrasts the design, weapon technologies and combat performance of the opposing cruiser forces.
Assume that Powell's speed on takeoff was 9.5 m/s (about equal to that of a sprinter) and that g = 9.80 m/s2 in Tokyo. How much less was Powell's range than the maximum possible range for a particle launched at the same speed?
The Axis gathered a large force of submarines, aircraft, and torpedo boats to attack the convoy as it approached from the west. The RM's ace card was a surface force of three heavy cruisers, three light cruisers, and 11 destroyers, ...