Description: US Standard-type Battleships 1941–45 (2)Tennessee, Colorado and Unbuilt Classes Mark Stille (Author) , Paul Wright (Illustrator) This book completes an authoritative two-part study on the Standard-type US battleships of World War II - ships that were designed to fight a different type of war than the one that unfolded. It gives precise technical details of the design history and features of the Tennessee, Colorado and the unfinished South Dakota and Lexington classes, whilst providing an operational history of the former two. Much like the earlier classes, these ships' design adhered to consistent levels of performance to simplify battle-line operations, but they still incorporated evolutions of technology to match the latest Japanese types for the predicted decisive fleet engagements. In the end it was clear that war at sea would no longer see dreadnoughts slugging it out in open water, and these battleships were mostly utilized for fire support in US amphibious landings in the Pacific. Written by a leading expert on the US Navy in World War II and augmented by contemporary photographs and specially commissioned illustrations, this is the other half of the story of the US Standard-type battleships - from the terrible damage they sustained at Pearl Harbor, to their support of the war-winning landings of the US Marine Corps and US Army. PublishedDec 22 2015FormatPaperbackPages48 ISBN9781472806994ImprintOsprey PublishingIllustrations40 b/w; 7 colSeriesNew Vanguard Short codeNVG 229PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
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Location: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Features: Illustrated
Edition: 2
Book Title: Us Standard-Type Battleships 1941-45 (2) : Tennessee, Colorado and Unbuilt Classes
Number of Pages: 48 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication Year: 2015
Item Height: 0.2 in
Topic: Military / World War II, Military / Naval
Illustrator: Wright, Paul, Yes
Genre: History
Item Weight: 5.6 Oz
Author: Mark Stille
Item Length: 9.8 in
Book Series: New Vanguard Ser.
Item Width: 7.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
