The Battle of the Coral Sea, from 4 to 8 May 1942, was a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and naval and air forces of the United States and Australia. Taking place in the Pacific Theatre of World War II , the battle was the first naval action in which the opposing fleets neither sighted nor fired upon one another ...

Seventy-five years ago, in August 1945, the greatest naval war ever fought came to an end. World War II at sea was unequaled in terms of geographic extent, forces involved, and impact on the art and science of naval warfare.

2018年5月2日 · World War II at Sea offers a global perspective, focusing on the major engagements and personalities and revealing both their scale and their interconnection: the U boat attack on Scapa Flow and the Battle of the Atlantic; the "miracle" evacuation from Dunkirk and the pitched battles for control of Norway fjords; Mussolini's Regia Marina at the ...

The Battle of the Mediterranean was the name given to the naval campaign fought in the Mediterranean Sea during World War II, from 10 June 1940 to 2 May 1945.

The sea shaped the course and conduct of World War II, from thefirst moments of the German invasion of Poland on September 1,1939, to the Japanese surrender on ...

Between 20 November 1941 and January 1942, the Striking Force—Task Force Five (TF-5)—submarines, several auxiliaries and long-range patrol aircraft of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, based at Cavite,...

World War II at Sea, filters a very wide selection of primary and secondary sources to provide an authoritative, comprehensive account that covers the full range of maritime decision-making and combat His main theme is that the sea provides the essential unity and definition to a world war Moreover, if you want to win a world

On 5 November 1942, Dwight D. Eisenhower arrived at a secret new command centre buried under the British fortress at Gibraltar. The young American general had been put in command of Operation torch, the invasion of northwest Africa. It was a colossal expedition, but planning had begun in London only a few months before.

World War II at Sea (2018) and Evan Mawdsley’s The War for the Seas (2019) are the first synoptic studies of the maritime war to appear in decades. ‘The role of the sea as a whole has been . . . marginalized or compartmentalized’ in the historiography, Marcus Faulkner and Alessio

2018年11月30日 · World War II at Sea is divided into five consecutive parts. The first covers ‘The European War’ from September 1939 to 1941, before the second moves on to the expansion of the war into a global conflict following the German attack on Russia and the Japanese strike on Pearl Harbor (‘The War Widens’).