Underwater Warriors

Underwater Warriors

by PaulKemp (Author)

Synopsis

The world of elite naval units - frogmen, commandos, midget submarines, demolition squads - and their operations are the subject of this history. It traces their development from the first such units in the 1890s to Italian/Austrian operations in World War I and the rise of the Italian MAS service between the wars. There is coverage of Japanese naval raids (including Pearl Harbor and Sydney), the Royal Navy X-Craft used in the Tirpitz attack, Mediterranean spying operations, German use of designs which failed to impede the Allies, Japanese suicide weapons and various unusual designs and operations, a planned Italian raid on New York, and the post-war rise of midget submarines and subsequent Soviet interest.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Arms & Armour
Published: 04 Dec 1997

ISBN 10: 1854094556
ISBN 13: 9781854094551

Author Bio
Paul Kemp established an early reputation as a naval historian, able to mix original research and scholarship with exciting narrative writing. He was fora while attached to the Imperial War Museum, and now writes naval history ful