![]() Battleship Jean Bart duels U. S. S Massachusetts; U- boats. U. S. transports at Fedala. U. S. regains initiative after Pearl Harbor. This page includes a good tactical overview of the beginning of the U. S. effort to regain initiative after the low point of Pearl Harbor. Copyright 2. 01. 2 Franklyn E. Dailey Jr. Author Franklyn E. ![]() Dailey Jr., Capt. USNR (Ret), appears in three episodes. History Channel series, "Patton 3. Cheat Codes: Welcome to Cheatbook, your number one Cheats source for all video games and game cheats and codes, Cheats Codes and PC Computer Game Cheats, Action Games.He is the author of "Joining. War at Sea 1. 93. World War II invasions. Casablanca and Sicily plus Salerno , Anzio, and Southern France. Early. Feedback: A growing number of readers have signed on to this story. A person. who lives near me saw an article in a local paper which contained my website. URL. He looked up my name in the local telephone directory and called me. 1942 was a common year starting on Thursday (dominical letter D) of the Gregorian calendar, the 1942nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations. Torch" invasion aimed at Casablanca. He. did not tell me his name but did offer that he was not a participant in WW. II. His call was that of a quietly indignant person who questioned whether. Jean Bart could actually have been firing on U. S. warships. He drove. French "were our Allies in WW II", so it was. I attempted to re- cast those events for him but it was. I had not convinced him. FEDJr. 1. 2/1. 6/9. Author invites comment. A New Phase. I am aware that there are times in this narrative, especially when it shifts. I had stuck to one perspective or the other, "being there", or. As a participant, I did not at the time have some of the. I gained from reflections in later years. For example, the. North Africa opened a new phase in the Edison's. Joining The War At Sea Chapter Five: The invasion of North Africa and the fghting between the US and French navies. Click here! Subsim thanks you: Books, Games, DVDs, Toys, Cameras, Movies, Star Trek, Submarine games, Naval Books, Music. Tennessee. State of Tennessee. ORIGIN OF STATE NAME: Probably derived from Indian name Tenase, which was the principal village of the Cherokee. NICKNAME: The. ![]() I had many questions then about tactics in the North Atlantic. I must say of any coherent sense of how things might have been different. The human has the capacity to set questions. Going into the next phase. ![]() Edison's seagoing operations, I had no sense then that it even deserved. Edison. It was. all new to me, and I, like my shipmates, just raced to keep up with challenges. U. S. S. Edison's Progress. The Edison (DD- 4. October of 1. 94. Download Battlefield 1942 mods at Game Front. Also find Gaming News, Reviews, Walkthroughs, Cheats and more. Computer Games. Pacific War, by SSI. This is a BIG game, covering every aspect of the entire Pacific war, and containing every ship, aircraft squadron, and brigade. ![]() The. SC radar was our long range aircraft detection system. Its antenna, atop. Scale that hamburger wire frame up about five times and you had. SC radar. We used it constantly, but I do not recall that it ever detected. Edison's war history to be noted as such. Occasionally, it confirmed what. That knowledge often came from operations plans. Positive confirmation of. IFF, Identification, Friend. Foe, was not available. Later in the war, our aircraft were outfitted. I do not believe that SC radar systems were ever upgraded to. My own impression of SC radar was that it was just one step. CXAM, an experimental radar (the antenna looked like bedsprings). USNA midshipman youngster. Midshipmen of 1. 94. CXAM was all about. Somehow, we knew that the X was for experimental. Edison attempted, as did other destroyers, to make use of the Westinghouse. FD, fire control radar, for detection purposes but I do not recall any success. AA efficacy of early designs of the FD radar. It could sharpen bearing. Chief Fire Controlman, Jackson, for gunnery purposes in competition with. Edison did not fire on aircraft under "instrument" conditions. We. had no way of knowing, even if we could hear them above the cloud cover. And even with enemy aircraft, on clear nights. FD might compete with our optical systems, firing at an enemy aircraft. That was a tradeoff that. Edison would not make. We fired one night off Italy when an enemy aircraft. This aircraft was not only. Edison was. heading. We did not hit him. Thanks again to our lookouts, we made an emergency. The sonar was constantly being improved, one small step at a time, in every. The greatest difference here though, took place. The British and the U. S. agreed, with emphasis. In UK ports (the British called it ASDIC) or in US ports, Edison officers. Junior officers went. Navy demanded that. By senior officers, I mean the conning. CO or XO at battle stations, and the qualified senior watchstanders. A depth charge attack, with good information available, was best. Later, during the heat of the Mediterranean campaign, our sonarmen could. I believe saved Edison on more than one. It also permitted us to penetrate a minefield and engage in close. By the end of October 1. Edison was not advanced greatly in gunnery. I first came aboard. Her baptism here was yet to come. But since I brought up the question of mines, let me anticipate the landings. North Africa by stating that mines advanced to co- equal status in my mind. Mediterranean. I am sure that minesweeping had been accomplished in our approaches to rivers. UK at the end of a convoy trip, and even at our own bases. Iceland. But I did not see the minesweepers do their thing. Usually, we. entered at night and I did not see much of anything, except to marvel that. Captain, the Navigator and the Quartermaster could find their way around. British. The U. S. Navy's high command anticipated mines in the Mediterranean and its. North African approaches. We had two classes of U. S. Navy sweepers, an all. At. North Africa, I can remember the USS Raven, USS Auk and USS Osprey of the. One of these was commanded by LCDR Joseph Stryker, who had. Naval Academy when I was a midshipman. Later. deeper into the Med, we were helped by British and French sweepers and by. Mediterranean origin newly equipped. Keeping the Tunisian War Channel. Moored mines, found in. Mediterranean, were swept by paravanes. Those lookouts, again.) The minesweeper's service. Europe. Mines, as ever present. Atlantic and the Pacific. The Pacific; A Situation Brief. In Chapter Fou of the book, we delved quite deeply into convoy hazards in. North Atlantic in August of 1. In the Pacific, the great sea battles. Coral Sea, a defeat (counted by some a strategic victory, but we lost. USS Lexington), and Midway, a victory, took place in this crucial. Allies debated their first big move. Atlantic. But, the Pacific events that I most bracket with North Africa. US counteroffensive operations, took place on Guadalcanal. August of 1. 94. 2. Here, U. S. Marines took ground from the Japanese. It cost. the U. s. Navy many warships. The Japanese decided in May 1. Guadalcanal. (That. Coral Sea.) Ninety miles long and thirty. British Solomons' Islands had it all- mountains. Admiral Nimitz determined. Japanese could raid Fiji, New Caledonia and even. Australia, must be denied to them. On August 7, 1. 94. General Vandegrift. Marines began to land on Guadalcanal and 6,0. Tulagi right alongside. On Guadalcanal, a small U. S. perimeter around the airfield was secured by. The Japanese mounted an all out suicidal assault on the Marines. Tulagi on the night of August 7. The U. S. warships supporting the amphibious. Japanese force. The U. S. forces ashore were cut off from supplies and reenforcements and had to dig. December, 1. 94. 2. After furious sea battles between U. S. and Japanese ships, the U. S. finally. got the upper hand locally and Army reenforcements began to come ashore in. When the last Japanese evacuated in February 1. Marines and the Army could tote up severe losses in dead and wounded. From Guadalcanal in 1. Okinawa in 1. 94. The U. S. did not hold a decisive. Solomons in 1. 94. And the foot soldiers labored under the. Americans, and under. Nimitz made a fateful. War for Europe would take priority. The epitaph a Marine. Guadalcanal's "Flanders. Field" says it all. And when he gets to Heaven, To St. Peter he will tell: `One more Marine. I've served my time in Hell.'". The Atlantic: A Situation Brief. We have dealt with actions at sea in the North Atlantic and touched on how. German submarines extended their reach to all parts of the Atlantic. The War on land in Europe was a disaster for the Allies in Western Europe. Rommel's Afrika Corps began to roll the British back toward the Suez from. Libya in North Africa. After the capitulation of the French armed forces. France in 1. 94. 0, a neutral French government was set up at Vichy, France. Marshal Petain, a World War I hero. The Vichy French and the North. African French, in Algeria and Morocco, and the West African French at Dakar. Germany, Britain and the US, and with the free. French nationals in Britain. US military forces became involved in the. Mediterranean part of this slow waltz. The French Naval Base at Toulon was. Vichy. It was kept in a non- threatening role. Hitler, yet its French Fleet units did not emerge to fight for him. Dancing. together were French leaders who favored the Germans, leaders who tolerated. Germans, and leaders who waited for any opportunity to fight back. De. Gaulle. emerged in Britain as the leader of the French who had not surrendered and. Germans and who would take part in covert and. Hitler's forces in territory that Hitler actively. France. The British identified with De. Gaulle's objectives. Hitler from his occupied territory and defeat him. But in a way. too complex to cover in this story, De. Gaulle was actually an impediment in. Allies practiced with "neutral" France. When Hitler opened hostilities against Russia in mid- 1. French interests in North Africa a prime. The US and Britain. France, began a "good guy, bad guy" relationship with the. French. The US was the good guy, and for the balance of 1. Pearl Harbor, trafficked with the French under the eyes of the Germans. For most the period there was no doubt insofar as North Atlantic convoy. Germany had already. Roosevelt was the consummate strategist in this matter, and Churchill. Roosevelt, almost alone among his advisers, wanted the second. Stalin was begging for to either begin in Western Europe in 1. Africa in 1. 94. 2. When the British made the strongest case. Western Europe could not commence in 1. Roosevelt's idea to begin a second front in North Africa. Some of the reading I have done for this story suggest that North Africa. Churchill's idea. Churchill knew that the top US military. Pacific if forceful action in the. Atlantic theater did not seem to be developing. Churchill agreed with the. So Churchill may have made. Roosevelt by approving the North African. The capture of Tobruk by Rommel probably tipped the scales finally.
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