Delaware's Coastal Patrol World War II.
Author | : Ray Bunting |
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Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1975 |
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Author | : Ray Bunting |
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Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1975 |
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Author | : Michael Morgan |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2016-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 162585711X |
Within weeks of Pearl Harbor, German U-boats arrived off the Delaware coast and attacked numerous ships along the vital shipping lanes to Philadelphia and Wilmington. On February 28, 1942, two German torpedoes hit the destroyer Jacob Jones, which was carrying more than one hundred American sailors. It sank in less than an hour. A center for military activity, Lewes became a refuge for many survivors from such attacks. The dunes along Cape Henlopen hid the massive artillery batteries of Fort Miles. Residents of the beachfront communities rallied amid the blackout regulations and air raid drills with rationing and scrap drives. Spotters watched for enemy warships in concrete towers that still line the coast. Author Michael Morgan tells the remarkable story of a coast at war.
Author | : William C. Grayson |
Publisher | : Infinity Publishing |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2010-10-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0741491729 |
Right after Japan's Pearl Harbor sneak attack and Germany's declaration of war, America had no effective naval or air defenses against enemy warships and submarines closely prowling her shorelines. As Japan shelled California and Germany sunk ships off At
Author | : Eleanor C. Bishop |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780929521220 |
Author | : Malcolm F. Willoughby |
Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2016-02-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1612519938 |
The intimate view of the U.S. Coast Guard's dramatic World War II record has long been considered a classic. First published in 1957 and out of print for years, the book is now available in paperback. Handsomely illustrated with more than two hundred photographs, the book serves as a unique memento of one of the most illustrious periods in the Coast Guard's two hundred year history. The author offers a story replete with incidents of devotion far beyond the call of duty--daring rescues, adventurous high-sea missions, heroic combat action--to clearly demonstrate the vital role the service played in the Allied war effort. A seasoned World War I veteran who joined the Coast Guard Temporary Reserve in 1942, Malcolm Willoughby has covered every aspect of the Coast Guard's involvement in the war at sea, in the air, and at home. From the invasion of Normandy, where Coast Guardsmen landed thousands of Americans and rescued some 1,500 stranded in the surf, to Guadalcanal, where they rescued three companies of Marines trapped on the beach, this chronicle vividly recounts these well-documented operations and little-known stories of individual triumphs and tragedies as well.
Author | : Delaware. Public Archives Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
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Author | : Thomas P. Ostrom |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2009-08-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786453710 |
At home and overseas, the United States Coast Guard served a variety of vital functions in World War II, providing service that has been too little recognized in histories of the war. Teaming up with other international forces, the Coast Guard provided crewmembers for Navy and Army vessels as well as its own, carried troops, food, and military supplies overseas, and landed Marine and Army units on distant and dangerous shores. This thorough history details those and other important missions, which included combat engagement with submarines and kamikaze planes, and typhoons. On the home front, port security missions involving search and rescue, fire fighting, explosives, espionage and sabotage presented their own unique dangers and challenges.
Author | : Robert L. Scheina |
Publisher | : US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Eleanor C. Bishop |
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Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 1989 |
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Author | : Frank A. Blazich (Jr.) |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Air defenses |
ISBN | : 9781585663057 |
"Military historian and Civil Air Patrol (CAP) member Frank A. Blazich Jr. collects oral and written histories of the CAP's short-lived--but influential--coastal air patrol operations of World War II and expands it in a scholarly monograph that cements the legacy of this vital civil-military cooperative effort"--