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Histories of the Battle of the Atlantic universally fail to appreciate the impact that the introduction of the snorkel had on the evolutionary shift in U-boat operations at the end of the war. German U-boat histories of the Second World War are dominated by the period 1940–43 and written by, or about, veterans that never saw a single operational patrol…
USS LST-742 on 13 October 1950 at Wolmi-do Island, Inchon Harbor, loading supplies for the upcoming Wonsan invasion. So well did the LST(2) suit the needs of the Americans that the UK had difficulty in being allocated suitable numbers from the construction programme that it had itself initiated. Eighty were…
Cruiser Infanta Maria Teresa. The Biggest naval battle of Spanish-American war, called Battle of Santiago de Cuba. The whole war went very unfortunate for Spain and this was the end of the hundreds years old Spanish empire, it was year 1898. Technical characteristics Infanta Maria Teresa was built at Bilbao,…
Riverine warfare characterized the contest for control of the inland waterways of the Republic of Vietnam (RVN, South Vietnam). The Mekong Delta was the geostrategic center of South Vietnam. With an area of 15,450 square miles and nearly 8 million inhabitants, the Mekong Delta constituted almost one-fourth of the country’s…
The Monitors were the battleships of the Mobile Riverine Force. They were equipped with varied armament including 105mm cannon in turrets, 40mm cannon, or napalm weapons as in this photo. These Zippo Boats were very effective against VC spider holes or other such bunkers and fortifications. A U.S. Navy Mk…
Japan’s Sen-Toku I-400 submarine was regarded as such a technological marvel that it was scuttled by U.S. forces after the Second World War to keep it away from the Russians. Shown here is the I-401 sister ship. I-58 Type B3 submarine. On November 10th 1942, I-15, a B1 type submarine,…
Pennsylvania (1915) leading battleship Colorado (1921) and cruisers Louisville (1930), Portland (1932), and Columbia (1941) into Lingayen Gulf, Philippines 1944. The Italian BB Littorio When the self-propelled Whitehead torpedo—carried on small, fast torpedo boats—threatened the established order, naval hierarchies pursued ways to preserve the battleship’s preeminence. Naval architects modified battleship…
Schnellboot S-80 torpedo boat Camo Operations with the Kriegsmarine S-boats were often used to patrol…
PROJECT KOSTROMITINOV Aircraft 66 Fighters 40 bombers/torpedo bombers Guns 8Ă—2 152 mm 4Ă—3+6Ă—2 100mm FlaK…
IJN Yamato by Chris Flodberg The tower carried Type 21 and 22 radar, the main…
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