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US Navy Gunboats 1885 - 1945 By Brian Lane Herder
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US Navy Gunboats 1885 1945 By Brian Lane Herder
Soft Cover
Copyright 2021
48 pages Indexed
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION4
DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION5
GUNBOATS9
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 189829
Manila Bay
Cuba and Puerto Rico
BANANA WARS 1899-191634
THE ASIATIC STATION 1899-193736
ASIA AND THE PACIFIC 1937-4239
The Panay Incident, December 12,1937
Escape from China, late 1941
Pearl Harbor, December 7,1941
Twilight of the Asiatic Fleet 1941-42
CONCLUSION46
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY47
INDEX 48
US NAVY GUNBOATS
1885-1945
For more than half a century, gunboats were the United States' most visible military presence around the world. Most famously operating in the Philippines and China, many US gunboats were built, purchased, captured, or reassembled overseas, where they usually spent their entire careers never coming within 7,000 miles of the country they served.
These little warships and their crews often had colorful, unpredictable lives, serving and fighting in the Spanish-American War, the Yangtze Patrol, and the Caribbean "Banana Wars."Gunboat service gave command experience to the future leaders of the US Navy, such as Chester Nimitz, Bill Halsey, and John S. McCain Sr. World War II spelled the end of the gunboat era, however, as Japan's overwhelming 1941-42 offensives destroyed or captured many of them, and by 1945, the mighty US Navy had outgrown its need for gunboats to show the flag on far-flung shores.
This fascinating book outlines the gunboats' types, origins, and capabilities, and tells the story of their key role in America's global expansion.
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