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At the start of World War II, the Royal Navy was the strongest navy in the world, [1] with the largest number of warships built and with naval bases across the globe. [2] It had over 15 battleships and battlecruisers, 7 aircraft carriers, 66 cruisers, 164 destroyers and 66 submarines. [2]
The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway (Naval Institute Press, 1984) ISBN 0-87021-189-7; Morison, Samuel Eliot. The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War (1963) ISBN 1591145244. Morison, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. 3, The Rising Sun in ...
This History of U.S. Naval Operations also played an indirect role in the history of television. One of Morison's research assistants in the project, Henry Salomon, knew NBC's Robert Sarnoff and, in 1949, first proposed an ambitious documentary TV series on U.S. Navy and Marine Corps warfare in World War II.
The Royal Navy Day by Day. Stroud: Spellmount. ISBN 9780752461779. Rohwer, Jürgen (2005). Chronology of the war at sea, 1939–1945 : the naval history of World War II. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-119-2. Rose, Lisle Abbott (2007). The Breaking Storm 1919–1945. Power at Sea. Vol. II. Columbia: University of Missouri Press.
List of United States Navy and Coast Guard ships lost during World War II, from 31 October 1941 to 31 December 1946, [1] sorted by type and name. This listing also includes constructive losses, which are ships that were damaged beyond economical repair and disposed of.
Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. Collins, J.T.E. (1964). The Royal Indian Navy, 1939–1945. Official History of the Indian Armed Forces in the Second World War. New Delhi: Combined Inter-Services Historical Section (India ...
Naval Training School (Radio), Naval Reserve Armory, Indianapolis, Indiana Naval Training School (Radio-Special), Bainbridge Island, Port Blakely, Washington Naval Training School (Radio-Women), University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
This list of naval battles is a chronological list delineating important naval battles that have occurred throughout history, from the beginning of naval warfare with the Hittites in the 12th century BC to piracy off the coast of Somalia in the 21st century. If a battle has no commonly used name it is referred to as "Action of (date)" within ...