Us Navy Gunboats 1885–1945 Brian Lane Herder Osprey Publishing Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

A Study Of The History Us Navy\ S Gunboats And Their Role In Building Worldwide American Naval Presence Abroad Combat From Yangtze Era Through To World War Ii For More Than Half Century Were Ships Often Responsible Policing Small Crises Provided Deterrence Fast-Response Capabilities Around – Showing Flag Landing Armed Parties Patrolling River Littoral Areas Protecting Ex-Pats They United States’ Most-Visible Constant Military Far-Flung Foreign Lands Most Closely Associated With Far East Particularly Philippines China Famous Course Was Multinational Patrol Many Built Purchased Or Reassembled Overseas Where Usually Served Out Entire Careers Never Coming Within 7 000 Miles National Homeland Which Numerous Captured Spanish During 1898 Being Raised Shallow Graves Refurbished Commissioned Into Usn Service Classic Haunt Asiatic Station Gunboat Typically Exotic Sailors\ Lives Exciting Unpredictable Major Operational Theatres Pre-1898 Cruises Patrols Earliest Steel Spanish-American (Both Caribbean) Guerilla Wars Early 20Th Latin America Fleet 1890S–1930S Finally Largely Entailed Operations Dutch Indies Alaska On Convoy Routes It Japan’s Sudden 1941–1942 \ Centrifugal Offensive\ That Effectively Spelled Beginning End Not Just But Also Century-Old Order Asia Had Primary Mission Σελίδες: 48 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0601 Διαστάσεις: 18 4X18 4Cm