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Q-Ships Versus U-Boats: America's Secret Project - Couverture rigide

Beyer, Kenneth M.

 
9781557500441: Q-Ships Versus U-Boats: America's Secret Project
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ISBN 10 : 1557500444 ISBN 13 : 9781557500441
Editeur : Naval Institute Press, 2003

Synopsis

In a desperate attempt to counteract the deadly onslaught of U-boats in the Atlantic, President Franklin D. Roosevelt initiated a secret project in 1942 that called for the use of decoys disguised as merchant ships. These heavily armed warships were referred to as Q-ships, and very little information about them has been recorded over the past fifty years. Now a U.S. naval officer who served in one of the mystery ships, a decoy-configured freighter by the name of USS Asterion, lifts the shroud of secrecy that has surrounded the mission for so long. His book examines for the first time the origins and operations of Project I.Q, as the secret plan was known.

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Éditeur
Naval Institute Press
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1557500444
ISBN 13 
9781557500441
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
236
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Personne responsable
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