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He became the Submarines Pacific Operations Officer who planned the operations that are the subjects of both books. Given the job by Admiral Lockwood to write the Official Administrative and Operational History for submarines, he produced "Submarine Commands, Volumes 1 and 2." He is the sole source for Roscoe, and the seminal source for Blair:
List of United States Navy losses in World War II § Submarines (SS) - abbreviated list List of US Navy ships sunk or damaged in action during World War II § Submarine (SS) - detailed list The NR-1 Deep Submergence Craft was a non-commissioned nuclear submarine operated by the United States Navy .
Project Sanguine was a US Navy project proposed in 1968 for communication with submerged submarines using extremely low frequency (ELF) radio waves. The initially proposed system, hardened to survive a nuclear attack, would have required a giant antenna covering two-fifths of the state of Wisconsin.
1914, October 18 – German submarine U-27 sinks HMS E3 in the first ever successful attack on one submarine by another. 1914, October 20 – German submarine U-17 sinks SS Glitra in the first submarine sinking of a merchant ship during the world wars. [1] 1915, May 7 – German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania killing 1,198 and leaving 761 ...
This is a list of known World War II era codenames for military operations and missions commonly associated with World War II. As of 2022 [update] this is not a comprehensive list, but most major operations that Axis and Allied combatants engaged in are included, and also operations that involved neutral nation states.
Submarine warfare is one of the four divisions of underwater warfare, the others being anti-submarine warfare, mine warfare and mine countermeasures.. Submarine warfare consists primarily of diesel and nuclear submarines using torpedoes, missiles or nuclear weapons, as well as advanced sensing equipment, to attack other submarines, ships, or land targets.
The missions are conducted by specially equipped nuclear-powered attack submarines and in some cases by a nuclear-powered mini-sub called NR-1." [ 11 ] Tunander also says that during this period (1981–87), the Secretary of Navy John Lehman was the Director of NURO.
The 15-foot-draft submarines entered a floating drydock on the Illinois River to get through the 9-foot-deep Chain of Rocks Channel near the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. Submarines left the drydock at New Orleans and reinstalled periscope shears, periscopes, and radar masts which had been removed to clear bridges over the ...