Submarines at War 1939-45This volume provides Compton Hall's pictorial history of submarine warfare in World War II. |
Contents
Contents Acknowledgements | 6 |
Fact and Fiction | 7 |
The Order of Battle | 14 |
Mechanics | 22 |
Life Below | 30 |
Finding the Way | 38 |
Communications | 42 |
Underwater Weapons | 47 |
Operations from the United Kingdom | 85 |
The Atlantic | 94 |
Indian Ocean | 106 |
The Pacific | 113 |
Soviet Submarines | 124 |
The Monstrous Midgets | 132 |
Special Operations | 144 |
An AllRound Look | 152 |
Common terms and phrases
action Admiral aircraft Allied submariners American submarines angle areas Asdic astern Atlantic attack Baltic battery battleship Bottom Left Bottom Right bridge British boats British submarines Captain carried carrier Centre Left commanding officers conning tower control room convoy craft crew cruiser damaged depot ship depth-charge destroyer diving Doenitz enemy engine escort explosion Flotilla forces German U-boats harbour hatch HMS Graph hull human torpedoes Italian Japanese submarines knots Kptlt Lcdr Lieutenant Lt Cdr Malta marines Mediterranean merchant ship metres midget submarines miles minelayer mines Nautilus naval navigation Pacific periscope position radar range resulted Royal Navy salvo sank schnorchel Seraph signal sinking Soviet Navy Soviet submarine speed submarine operations submarine's submerged success sunk surface tactics tanks target tons Top Left Top Right trim tubes Type IXC Type VIIC Type XXI U-boat U-class underwater United States Navy vessels weapons X-craft yards