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A study of the history of the US Navy's gunboats and their role in building a worldwide American naval presence abroad and in combat, from the Yangtze era through to World War II.
For more than half a century, American gunboats were the ships often responsible for policing small crises and provided deterrence and fast-response capabilities around the world - showing the flag, landing armed parties, patrolling river and littoral areas, and protecting ex-pats. Many US gunboats were built, purchased or reassembled overseas where they usually served out their entire careers. Many were also captured from the Spanish during the 1898 war, raised from shallow graves, refurbished, and commissioned into USN service.
The major operational theatres associated with the US gunboats were the pre-1898 cruises and patrols of the earliest steel gunboats, the Spanish-American War of 1898 (both the Philippines and the Caribbean), the guerrilla wars of the early 20th century Philippines and Latin America, the Asiatic Fleet and famous Yangtze Patrol of the 1890s-1930s, and finally World War II, which largely entailed operations in China, the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, Alaska, and on convoy routes.
It was Japan's sudden 1941-1942 'Centrifugal Offensive' that effectively spelled the beginning of the end not just of most American gunboats, but also the century-old world order in Asia that had provided US gunboats with their primary mission.
A study of the history of the US Navy's gunboats and their role in building a worldwide American naval presence abroad and in combat, from the Yangtze era through to World War II.
For more than half a century, American gunboats were the ships often responsible for policing small crises and provided deterrence and fast-response capabilities around the world - showing the flag, landing armed parties, patrolling river and littoral areas, and protecting ex-pats. Many US gunboats were built, purchased or reassembled overseas where they usually served out their entire careers. Many were also captured from the Spanish during the 1898 war, raised from shallow graves, refurbished, and commissioned into USN service.
The major operational theatres associated with the US gunboats were the pre-1898 cruises and patrols of the earliest steel gunboats, the Spanish-American War of 1898 (both the Philippines and the Caribbean), the guerrilla wars of the early 20th century Philippines and Latin America, the Asiatic Fleet and famous Yangtze Patrol of the 1890s-1930s, and finally World War II, which largely entailed operations in China, the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, Alaska, and on convoy routes.
It was Japan's sudden 1941-1942 'Centrifugal Offensive' that effectively spelled the beginning of the end not just of most American gunboats, but also the century-old world order in Asia that had provided US gunboats with their primary mission.
INTRODUCTION
DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION
GUNBOATS
The first steel gunboats
1890s gunboats
Early 20th-century gunboats
Spanish-American War prizes
River gunboats (PR)
Steel monitors (BM)
World War II gunboats 1936-42
Armed yachts 1898-1945 (PY)
Special flagships 1905-77
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR 1898
Manila Bay
Cuba and Puerto Rico
BANANA WARS 1899-1916 34
THE ASIATIC STATION 1899-1937 36
ASIA AND THE PACIFIC 1937-42 39
The Panay Incident, December 12, 1937
Escape from China, late 1941
Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
Twilight of the Asiatic Fleet 1941-42
CONCLUSION
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Reihe: | New Vanguard |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9781472844705 |
| ISBN-10: | 147284470X |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Herder, Brian Lane |
| Illustrator: | Tooby, Adam |
| Hersteller: |
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
New Vanguard |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 247 x 188 x 5 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Brian Lane Herder |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 15.04.2021 |
| Gewicht: | 0,166 kg |
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