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The submarine HMS Trenchant torpedoed and sank the heavy cruiser Ashigara in the Bangka Strait, taking down some 1,200 Japanese army troops. Three British submarines were sunk by the Japanese during the war: HMS Stratagem, HMS Porpoise, and HMS Stonehenge (which was mined).
15 wrz 2009 · This article explores the meanings of ‘unrestricted warfare’ as practised by US submarines in the Pacific during the Second World War. The submarine war in the Pacific is typically represented as a series of torpedo attacks that devastated Japanese warships, freighters, and tankers.
U.S. Navy submarines assisted in the conduct of numerous covert raids during the Pacific War. This article appears in: Early Fall 2012. By Steven Trent Smith. Sunsets over Manila Bay are nothing less than spectacular.
While U.S. Navy surface ships and aircraft were earning dramatic Pacific war victories, American submarines were waging a silent, relentless campaign behind the front lines that ultimately strangled the enemy.
United States Submarine Operations in World War II by Theodore Roscoe is a classic history of the role of the United States Navy submarines in World War II, earning him the title of "grandfather" of World War II American Submarine historiography. [1]
During the early years of the Pacific war, submarine warfare was an inexact and faulty operation. Prior to America' sentry into World War II, the United States was a signatory to numerous international treaties decrying unrestricted submarine warfare against merchant shipping.
"U.S. PACIFIC SUBMARINES IN WORLD WAR II", by William P. Gruner is a summary of the U.S. submarine war in the Pacific. It was written by William P. "Bud" Gruner Jr., class of 1935 in the US Naval Academy who eventually commanded USS SKATE during WW II.
