America's Sailors in the Great War Seas, Skies, and Submarines / Lisle A. Rose.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rose, Lisle A., 1936-2021.

Series:

American military experience series.

American military experience

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Navy--History--World War, 1914-1918.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Columbia, MO : University of Missouri Press, 2017.

Summary:

"The First World War demanded of the American Navy radically different solutions, skills and thinking. The US fleet of big ships designed to fight other big ships in classic line-of-battle formation entered an unprecedented global conflict with no answer to a German innovation--the U-boat. The navy's few primitive ocean-going submarines and an entirely new type of small warship, aptly named the subchaser, helped secure an eventual victory over the U-boat. A comprehensive convoy system quickly became a critical element in the maritime conflict demanding the escort service of nearly every destroyer in the American fleet and the outstanding seamanship that went with it." --From jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

State of play

Beat to quarters

Aloft

"Drab efficiency" : the making of the convoy system

Sending the hunters

Battleship boys

Keeping the seas

Chasers

Barrages, batteries, bombers and battleships

A navy second to none.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780826273703

082627370X

OCLC:

966766079