Splinter fleet : the wooden subchasers of World War II / Theodore R. Treadwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Treadwell, Theodore R., 1916-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Submarine chasers--History.

Submarine chasers.

World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations--Submarine.

World War, 1939-1945.

Sea control.

World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American.

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, [2000]

Summary:

A firsthand account of life aboard the tough 110-foot subchasers that went up against the U-boats.

Contents:

1 World War I Subchasers: The First Generation 9

2 World War II Subchasers: The Second Generation 16

3 Subchaser Training Center 25

4 The Battle of the Atlantic 30

5 Her Maiden Voyage 47

6 The Mediterranean 59

7 Normandy, the Channel, and Southern France 76

8 The Shetlands Bus 85

9 "Greek's" War 92

10 Adventures in the South Pacific 99

11 Arawe: The Harbor Nobody Wanted 114

12 Dead End for Dead Reckoning 124

13 Kwajalein and Eniwetok 134

14 This Is No Subchaser 143

15 Those Four-Letter Words 162

16 Subchasers as Gunboats 173

17 Leyte 186

18 The Subchaser and the Zero 191

19 The Sea Rover 198

20 Conrad Young's Secret 204

21 The Western Pacific, 1945 210

22 Buckner Bay 221

Appendix A Postwar Disposition of Subchasers 233

Appendix B Subchaser Hulls Still Afloat 236

Appendix C Patrol Craft Sailors Association 245

Appendix D Scale Model Subchasers 247.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-261) and index.

ISBN:

1557508178

OCLC:

43706924