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This volume deals with the first 15 months of the Mediterranean
Campaign including the preparations for war and the entry of Italy
into the war on 10th June 1940. The Royal Navy's attack on Oran on
3rd July resulted in the sinking of one French battleship and two
others damaged with heavy loss of life while another one escaped to
France. The attack, three days later on Mers-el-Kebir by carrier
aircraft, damaged another French battleship in port. Also covered
are the first battles against the Italian fleet at Calabria and
Cape Spada which left one Italian battleship damaged and a heavy
cruiser sunk. The account ends in August with the first
Mediterranean convoy battle to run supplies from Gibraltar to
Alexandria - Operation Hat.
This is a compendium of seven Naval Staff Histories which deals
with operations by major German surface units as follows: the
destruction of the pocket battleship Graf Spee, by three Royal Navy
light cruisers off the River Plate; the hunt for the Bismark; the
Battle of the North Cape when Scharnhorst was sunk by HMS Duke of
York in a snowy, night action; the escape of the Gneisenau and the
Scharnhorst up the English Channel through British defences in the
Channel Dash; the series of attacks on Tirpitz by aircraft
carriers; long-range bombers and midget submarines in her Norwegian
lair; and the predations of disguised merchant raiders such as the
notorious Pinguin.
This is the official Naval Staff history of the Norway campaign,
originally published internally in 1951. It covers the period from
early April 1940 to the completion of operations in June. The
operation involved most of the Royal Navy's ships in the Home
theatre at the time.
This work covers a difficult period of the war for the Royal Navy's
Mediterranean Fleet. It covers the destruction of the Italian Fleet
at Taranto by naval aircraft from the carrier Illustrious, and the
entry of the German Luftwaffe into the theatre with their attack on
Illustrious in 1941.
This is a comnpendium volume of three Battle Summaries or Naval
Staff Histories produced soon after the war by the Naval Historical
Branch of the Admiralty. Originally classified and designed for
internal use only, these histories are published here for the first
time. The documents in this book cover the actions during the
period 1939-1941 that resulted in the sinking or immobilising of
the German Warships Birsmark and Graf Spee, and record the struggle
to rid the seas of the menace of the armed merchants raiders.
This work covers a difficult period of the war for the Royal Navy's
Mediterranean Fleet. It covers the destruction of the Italian Fleet
at Taranto by naval aircraft from the carrier Illustrious, and the
entry of the German Luftwaffe into the theatre with their attack on
Illustrious in January 1941, hitting her with eight 1,000lb bombs -
the heaviest damage suffered by an aircraft carrier in World War
II. In May 1941 the story continues with the rescue of the British
Army from Greece and Crete in the face of unrelenting air attack by
both the Germans and the Italians. This volume ends with the Royal
Navy's time of trial in November and December 1941, with Japan
launching an attack against Singapore while the Royal Navy suffered
grievous losses, with the battleship Barham and the carrier Ark
Royal sunk by U-Boats and the battleships Queen Elizabeth and
Valiant damaged by Italian frogmen in Alexandria harbour. The Fleet
that had been planned to sail to the relief of Singapore was sunk
before the start of the war.
This is the Naval Staff History of "Operation Dynamo," originally
published internally in 1949. British ships evacuated nearly
100,000 men of the BEF from the beaches, and over 200,000 from
harbours. Other nations' vessels carried more than 30,000. Scores
of ships were lost during the operation, and many more were
seriously damaged, but a very large proportion of the British Army
had been rescued in the teeth of continual air attack, from an
every-shrinking perimeter. The troops then had to be transported
across the Channel in the face of enemy aircraft, mines, torpedoes,
and fire from the shore, through waters unlit and strewn with
wrecks.
Although the campaign was, in Churchill's words, "an unmitigated
defeat," there is much to take pride in, and many lessons to be
learned from this operation. The appedices include a list of ships
which took part in "Operation Dynamo," and numbers of troops
transported.
This volume is a compendium of four Battle Summaries or Naval Staff
Histories produced soon after the war by the Naval Historical
Branch of the Admiralty. Originally classified and designed for
internal use only, these histories are published here for the first
time. The documents in this book cover the actions that resulted in
the sinking or immobilising of the German warships "Bismarck" and
"Graf Spee", and records the struggle to rid the seas of the meance
of the armed merchant raiders.
This is the official Naval Staff history of the Norway campaign,
originally published internally in 1951. It covers the period from
early April 1940 to the completion of operations in June. The
operation involved most of the Royal Navy's ships in the Home
theatre at the time.
This volume is a compendium of four Battle Summaries or Naval Staff
Histories produced soon after the war by the Naval Historical
Branch of the Admiralty. Originally classified and designed for
internal use only, these histories are published here for the first
time. The documents in this book cover the actions that resulted in
the sinking or immobilising of the German warships "Bismarck" and
"Graf Spee," and records the struggle to rid the seas of the meance
of the armed merchant raiders.
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