...In this chapter, George H. Monahan discusses the success of the German U-boat offensive in the Western Atlantic after the U.S. entry into World War II, which led the War Department leadership to believe that the U.S. Navy was not employing adequate antisubmarine tactics. In the application...

...During the Vietnam War, combined action platoons (CAPs) were the primary counterinsurgency instruments for the U.S. Marine Corps. The American contingent of each CAP consisted of approximately a dozen U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy corpsman, or medic, all of whom lived in South Vietnamese villages...

...This chapter details Harry Dean's military service in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He was one of several actors who served in the South Pacific, including Lee Van Cleef, Lee Marvin, and Harry Dean's future acting teacher Jeff Corey. Following a description of life in Navy boot camp...

... Cassin USS Cornwall HMS Dorsetshire HMS Downes USS Shaw USS Type 96 dive bomber bombsight anti-torpedo defenses doctrine Imperial Japanese Navy Ordnance Pearl Harbor Tactics Technology Torpedoes U.S. Navy The modern military has a deeply instilled faith in technology. This is particularly...

...One component of the American amphibious warfare doctrine developed by the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps during the interwar period concerned the use of naval gunfire in the softening up of enemy defenses prior to the landing of troops ashore. Historians of the war in the Pacific have traditionally...