At Close Quarters - PT Boats in the United States Navy

[Darius]

Hallo zusammen,

und wieder mal was zum Lesen - oder Vergleichen - oder was man halt braucht...

At Close Quarters - PT Boats in the United States Navy
by Captain Robert J. Bulkley, Jr. USNR (Retired)
with a Foreword by President John F. Kennedy
and an Introduction by Rear Admiral Ernest McNeill Eller, USN (Retired)
Director of Naval History
Naval History Division
Washington: 1962

Zwar nicht mehr so neu, aber doch schön es elektronisch durchsuchen zu können.
...
Part VI. The Mediterranean-Torpedo War   
1. Squadron 15 277
2. North Africa 278
3. Bizerte 282
4. Sicilian Invasion 285
5. Palermo 287
6. Invasion of Italy 292
7. Maddalena and Bastia 295
8. Winter Operations 299
9. Collision With a Minesweeper 301
10. Anzio 302
11. TB Destroyers 303
12. Fun With Rockets 305
13. Operation Gun 307
14. Expansion 311
15. Corvettes and Destroyers 312
16. Elba 315
17. Capture of an MAS 320
18. The Thunderbolt 321
19. Southern France 322
20. The Advance Landings 323
21. Diversionary Operations 324
22. Mines 327
23. Porquerolles 329
24. The Gulf of Fos 329
25. Explosive Boats and Human Torpedoes 334
26. Last Days at Bastia 337
27. Leghorn 339
28. Torpedoing the Harbors 345
29. The Last Patrols 346
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Darius

[t-geronimo]

...aber doch schön es elektronisch durchsuchen zu können...

Jau, erst letztens habe ich in einem 500-Seiten-Wälzer vergeblich STRG+F gesucht... 
Mann, war das nervig. 



Ach so, hast Du da auch einen Link für?

[Darius]

 

Wie aufmerksam von Dir

http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/CloseQuarters/index.html

Sorry & 

Darius

[Urs Heßling]

Hi,

für mich, der ich lange Zeit selbst Schnellbootfahrer war, ist die Verteilung der Verlustursachen interessant.

Die vielen "Grounded and destroyed to prevent capture" deuten an, dass die US Navy gleich mehrfach ihre "Eroberung von Unije" hatte.

und "friendly fire" machte nahezu ein Drittel der Verluste durch Waffeneinwirkung aus.

Bulkeleys erster Buch hiess "They were expendable" ...  Das war wohl kein Scherz.

Gruß, Urs

[Darius]

Hallo Urs,

ich finde die "Entsorgungsaktion"  heftig:

The Navy Depariment properly got rid of most of its PT's. Their job was done, and because of their light wooden construction, they could not be stored away against future need as the steel-hulled ships of the fleet. Indeed, many of the older boats, which had been kept running because of combat necessity, were no longer worth saving for any purpose. All the boats in the western Pacific were carefully surveyed. It was found that 118 hulls were defective because of broken frames, worms and dry rot, broken keels, cracked longitudinals, or battle damage. These boats were stripped of all salvageable material and the bare hulls were burned on the beach at Samar.

Darius