Year: 2022 Language: english Author: Duncan Evans (Editor) Genre: History Publisher: Warners Group Publications Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 132 Description: While the battles on the ground in WWII have tightly been recognised as key events in the war, those fouglit at sea had an equally important role. Sea was the route by which American materiel kept Britain and the Soviet Union fighting in the darkest days of WWII. Withotit those supplies the war effort would have run dry, the population out of food and the efforts of those on the ground and in the air woidd have been in vain. There were four key areas - the Atlantic crossing to Britain; the Arctic run to supply the Soviet Union; the Mediteiranean where British, Italian and German forces fought it out: and the Pacific, where the Allies took on the naval might of Imperial Japan. In this, special, 132-page collectors edition bookazine, we take a look at the key naval battles arid the ships that fought them. While sea battles typically involved destroyers, cruisers, and in the Pacific especially, aircraft curriers, here we are looking at the role and specification of the battleships, the mightiest ships of all. At the start of WWII, the most powerful navies arguably belonged to Britain and Japan, but it didn't take the USA long to outbuild both, thanks to its vastly superior industrial capacity. Meanwhile, the German ships were a danger in the Atlantic und North Sea to both shipping and Britain's warships, which made it a priority of the Admiralty to send as many to seabed as fast as possible. Here you will find 85 battleships and pocket battlesliips, with schematics for each class, a build history and their role in WWII. They are organised by country and then by class, such as the Queen Eliabeth class, where the ships had similar characteristics. There are specification panels for all classes and the sliips where they differed from each other. At the start of each section we take a look at the strategic situation for each of the navies represented here: Great Britain, France, USA Soviet Union, Germany, Italy and Japan. Various treaties in the 1920s and '30s had restricted what could be built and so, on the eve of WWII, some navies were still equipped with WWI-era dreadnoughts. These were hastily upgraded as the main threat soon became apparent - thai of attack from the air. After the early war clashes between ships, it was the aircraft earner war in the Pacific that became the focus point, and finally, towards the end, the battleships were lending their awesome weaponry to support landings in France, Italy and the Pacific islands. To conclude this special collectors guide to the battleships of WWII, we take a look at naval museums and floating warships around the world for you to visit; battleship models yon can build; online naval simulations to play; and finally, how to take your interest lo the next level by collecting naval militaria.
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Battleships of WWII
Language: english
Author: Duncan Evans (Editor)
Genre: History
Publisher: Warners Group Publications
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 132
Description: While the battles on the ground in WWII have tightly been recognised as key events in the war, those fouglit at sea had an equally important role. Sea was the route by which American materiel kept Britain and the Soviet Union fighting in the darkest days of WWII.
Withotit those supplies the war effort would have run dry, the population out of food and the efforts of those on the ground and in the air woidd have been in vain. There were four key areas - the Atlantic crossing to Britain; the Arctic run to supply the Soviet Union; the Mediteiranean where British, Italian and German forces fought it out: and the Pacific, where the Allies took on the naval might of Imperial Japan. In this, special, 132-page collectors edition bookazine, we take a look at the key naval battles arid the ships that fought them.
While sea battles typically involved destroyers, cruisers, and in the Pacific especially, aircraft curriers, here we are looking at the role and specification of the battleships, the mightiest ships of all. At the start of WWII, the most powerful navies arguably belonged to Britain and Japan, but it didn't take the USA long to outbuild both, thanks to its vastly superior industrial capacity. Meanwhile, the German ships were a danger in the Atlantic und North Sea to both shipping and Britain's warships, which made it a priority of the Admiralty to send as many to seabed as fast as possible.
Here you will find 85 battleships and pocket battlesliips, with schematics for each class, a build history and their role in WWII. They are organised by country and then by class, such as the Queen Eliabeth class, where the ships had similar characteristics. There are specification panels for all classes and the sliips where they differed from each other.
At the start of each section we take a look at the strategic situation for each of the navies represented here: Great Britain, France, USA Soviet Union, Germany, Italy and Japan. Various treaties in the 1920s and '30s had restricted what could be built and so, on the eve of WWII, some navies were still equipped with WWI-era dreadnoughts. These were hastily upgraded as the main threat soon became apparent - thai of attack from the air. After the early war clashes between ships, it was the aircraft earner war in the Pacific that became the focus point, and finally, towards the end, the battleships were lending their awesome weaponry to support landings in France, Italy and the Pacific islands.
To conclude this special collectors guide to the battleships of WWII, we take a look at naval museums and floating warships around the world for you to visit; battleship models yon can build; online naval simulations to play; and finally, how to take your interest lo the next level by collecting naval militaria.
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