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United States Submarine Men Lost During World War II
A compilation of basic information on all the known men who died while in, or attached to, a command of the U.S. Submarine Service; including passengers lost on U.S. Submarines has been undertaken by a former U.S. Submarine Veteran of WWII, Paul W. Wittmer. A two volume work of more than 1,000 pages, embracing more than 3,600 United States Submarine Men Lost During World War II. The bulk of the work consists of a record on each man with his complete name, rate or rank, the boat or command he was associated with, his approximate date of death, his hometown, and the state where he enlisted from, his service number, awards, date and place of birth, names of his parents, when known. The U.S. tab...
Fatal Dive
Fatal Dive: Solving the World War II Mystery of the USS Grunion by Peter F. Stevens reveals the incredible true story of the search for and discovery of the USS Grunion. Discovered in 2006 after a decades-long, high-risk search by the Abele brothers—whose father commanded the submarine and met his untimely death aboard it—one question remained: what sank the USS Grunion? Was it a round from a Japanese ship, a catastrophic mechanical failure, or something else—one of the sub’s own torpedoes? For almost half the war, submarine skippers’ complaints about the MK 14 torpedo’s dangerous flaws were ignored by naval brass, who sent the subs out with the defective weapon. Fatal Dive is the first book that documents the entire saga of the ship and its crew and provides compelling evidence that the Grunion was a victim of “The Great Torpedo Scandal of 1941-43.” Fatal Dive finally lays to rest one of World War II’s greatest mysteries.
Polymer Science: A Comprehensive Reference
The progress in polymer science is revealed in the chapters of Polymer Science: A Comprehensive Reference, Ten Volume Set. In Volume 1, this is reflected in the improved understanding of the properties of polymers in solution, in bulk and in confined situations such as in thin films. Volume 2 addresses new characterization techniques, such as high resolution optical microscopy, scanning probe microscopy and other procedures for surface and interface characterization. Volume 3 presents the great progress achieved in precise synthetic polymerization techniques for vinyl monomers to control macromolecular architecture: the development of metallocene and post-metallocene catalysis for olefin pol...
Seven Descendant Reports on the Names Widmar, Witmer/Witmar, Widmer, Wittmer
Compilation of descendants of Jacobus Widmar born 1589 in Ettenheim, Baden, Germany; Heinrich Witmer or Witmar born 1416 in Bremen, Germany; Heinrich or Heini Widmer born bef. 1610 in Hedingen, Switzerland; Hans Widmer born 1740 in Switzerland or Doubs, France; Ulrich Wittmer born bef. 1653 in the vicinity of Osweil, Neckar, Wuerttemberg, Germany; Kurt Wittmer born in the 1580s in Waldeck; and Ulrich Wittmer born bef. 1620 in the vicinity of Dettighofen and Eichberg, Germany. Descendants live in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Switzerland, Germany, France and elsewhere.
USS Dorado (SS-248)
"We knew we were going to have a rough time with this submarine from the beginning." Those words were written by Don Wheeler, a former DORADO crewmember who participated in the sea trials, in a letter to the author. DORADO was a U.S. Gato-class submarine, launched on May 23, 1943, set sail for Pearl Harbor via the Panama Canal on October 6, and was lost with all hands somewhere in the Caribbean Sea six days later. This book is quite possibly about one of the worst "friendly fire" incidents in U.S. military history. It is the story of a U.S. submarine attacked by a patrol-bomber aircraft attached to VP-210 out of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Within these pages you will read the formal Court of Inquiry that concluded, incorrectly, that the aircrew probably bombed a U-boat that was known to be in the area. Included in this book is the U-214 logbook which shows that they witnessed the bombing of DORADO. In this book is also the story of the author's search for the submarine over a 20+ year period.
The Submarine Has No Friends
At last count, more than 80 U.S. submarines recorded some type of actual "friendly fire" incident in which they were involved during their WWII war patrols. From being attacked by Allied bombers, depth-charged by U.S. ships or fired upon by armed Allied merchant ships, submariners quickly came to understand the bitter truth of the maxim: 'The submarine has no friends.' While the majority of submarines and their crew escaped with little more than bruised egos or minor injuries, three submarines and their crews were lost to friendly fire. For the first time in book format, a serious and most comprehensive research effort has gone into capturing all such "friendly fire" incidents involving U.S. submarines during World War II. Compiled through relentless research by the co-authors, their stories of loss and survival by "other than the enemy" is presented within these pages.
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