naval operations

Analyzes previously unexplored strategic factors that contributed to the Allied victory in World War II, sharing assessments of ambitious goals successfully pursued by FDR, Churchill, and other attendees at the Casablanca Conference.

Describes the events surrounding Operation Pedestal, the attempt to resupply the island of Malta, the enemy attack on British and U.S. ships that threatened the Allied position, and the determination of two injured American merchant mariners to defend their cargo of fuel oil.

Provides an account of the 1942 battle of Midway and the high-tech hunt for the lost ships fifty-six years later.

Four military chaplains board the U.S.A.T Dorchester to minister to the 902 soldiers on board.

Examines the history of the U.S. and Japanese Navy during World War II, analyzing the strategies of admirals on both sides of the war, production statistics of Japanese Zeros and American airplane, and the personal lives of both U.S. and Japanese admirals, including Isokoru Yamamoto, the mastermind behind the Pearl Harbor attack.

Offers an account of two submarines during World War II in 1943 in the South Pacific Ocean. The USS Sculpin was attacked by a Japanese destroyer which subsequently picked up the American sailors. Weeks later the USS Sailfish came upon a Japanese aircraft carrier and did not know that their countrymen from the Sculpin were on board that carrier and trying to escape. Years earlier half the lives of a Sculpin crew were saved by the Sailfish but not this time.

The story of the experiences of the African-American crew of the USS Mason as they made history by escorting six convoys across the Atlantic, performing all the duties of seamanship needed to take a warship into combat.