Victory ships

From S plus i until S plus 8 the group of mortar ships provided twilight smoke concealment and escort service for the Liberty and Victory ships in the San Fabian transport area, a mission which terminated operations of Task Unit 79.8.1 at Luzon. During this period its mortars fired more than, 000 rounds of 4.2-inch ammunition the 20-mm. guns of the unit expended almost 7,700 rounds during antiaircraft operations. 

I. G. Farben first subdued nature in ten thousand ways, then shipped the marvelous products of that victory across the seven seas. Its business has touched the life of every man and woman in the world. Often an unrecognized guest, it has visited every American home, with dyes, plastics, fabrics. If Farben did not make your bathroom fixtures, your shaving mug, or even your razor, your wife surely owes much of her prettification — from Easter hat to synthetic stockings — to I. G. Farben. 

London Heinemann, 1972), pp. 409-10. Gilbert believes that Churchill s advocacy of an attack by ships alone contributed to the War Council s self-deception that troops could be dispensed with Winston S. Churchill, vol. Ill, pp. 249, 311). The Russians did not propose an attack on the Dardanelles. Indeed, they were anxious lest any Balkan bloc created by an Allied victory might prejudice their claims to Constantinople see Keith Neilson, Strategy and Supply The Anglo-Russian Alliance, 1914-17 (London Allen and Unwin, 1984), pp. 57-78. 

Wilkinson, Nonnan, The Dazzle Painting of Ships (paper read before the North East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders at the Victory Meeting, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 10 July 1919), A Brush With Life (Seeley Service, 1969)... 

The 1940 Battle of the North Atlantic is about to begin. The German submarine fleet, under the command of sinister Admiral von Dietrich, consists of 200 U-boats at the beginning of the battle. The British destroyer fleet, under the command of heroic Admiral Steadman (a direct descendant of the intelligence officer responsible for the British victory at the Battle of Trafalgar), consists of 150 ships at the beginning of the battle. The rate of destruction of submarines by destroyers is equal to the rate of destruction of destroyers by submarines 0.25 ships/week/ship. 

From the 7th century AD, Greek fire was used in warfare, particularly to set enemy ships on fire. It made a major contribution to the Byzantine naval victories of those times. There has been much speculation as to the nature of Greek fire . A recent study (3) concludes that... 

This year (1998) becomes the 39th one in the history of the Russian civil nuclear-powered fleet, which consists of seven nuclear icebreakers and one transport (lighter carrier) ship (Fig. 1). The fleet s forefather, the icebreaker "Lenin", is already removed from operation, while the construction of the newest icebreaker 50th Anniversary of Victory is nearing completion now. The main performance indicators of the nuclear-powered ships over the period from 1970 to 1997 are given in Table 2. 

By then Hiroshima and its castle had found further service as an army base and the Imperial Army Fifth Division was quartered in barracks within and aroimd the castle grounds. The Fifth Division was the first to be shipped to battle when Japan and China initiated hostilities in 1894 Ujina harbor served as a major point of embarkation and would continue in that role for the next fifty years. The Meiji emperor moved his headquarters to the castle in Hiroshima in September, the better to direct the war, and the Efiet met in extraordinary session in a provisional Diet building there. Until the following April, when the limited mainland war ended with a Japanese victory that included the acquisition of Formosa and the southern part of Manchuria, Hiroshima was de facto the capital of Japan. Then the emperor returned to Tokyo and the city consolidated its gains. 

General H. Norman Schwarzkopf took the chemical threat extremely seriously. Anxious about the safety of his men, he did not share the confident expectations of low casualty rates as expressed by some civilian commentators and medical officers. In planning for possible casualties of 10,000 to 20,000, he admitted that The possibility of mass casualties from chemical weapons was the main reason we had sixty-three hospitals, two hospital ships, and eighteen thousand beds ready in the war zone. Even if this constituted over-insurance, as in many other aspects of the preparations for Operation Desert Storm, he could neither anticipate that the Iraqis would pursue a passive and ineffectual strategy nor that the likely victory would prove so crushingly one-sided. 

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