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The British Pacific Fleet Experience and Legacy,1944-50 (Hardcover, New edition)
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The British Pacific Fleet Experience and Legacy,1944-50 (Hardcover, New edition)
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The British Pacific Fleet was formed in October 1944 and dispatched
to fight alongside the USN in the Central Pacific under Admiral
Nimitz. Deploying previously unpublished documents, this book
reveals how relations between the UK and US forces developed from a
starting point of barely repressed suspicion, to one where both
navies came to understand each other and eventually find a
remarkable bond. Born out of a shared experience of Kamikaze
attacks, extended operations against bitterly hostile shores, the
pooling of knowledge and experience, the two navies underpinned the
diplomatic moves in both Washington and London. The book carries
the legacy of this experience through to the next Anglo-American
participation in war, Korea. It illustrates and explains how and
why certain lessons were incorporated into the composition,
behaviour and structure of the post-war Navy. It demonstrates the
significance of what was learned from the USN by the RN and by USN
from the RN. As well as examining the background to the largest
fleet the Royal Navy ever put to sea, the book also charts its
effects on Anglo-American relations, multinational operations,
alliance building, and the ways naval forces are shaped by and in
turn shape politics. It addresses a period of rapid technological
development that witnessed profound changes in the international
system, and which raised fundamental questions of what navies were
for and how should they operate and organize themselves. In so
doing the study illustrates how the experience of a few long months
at the end of the war in the Pacific would cast a long shadow over
these issues in the very different circumstances of the post-war
world.
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