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  • The Naval Warfare of World War II

  • The History of the Ships, Tactics, and Battles That Shaped the Fighting in the Atlantic and Pacific
  • By: Charles River Editors
  • Narrated by: Doug Lee
  • Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
  • 3.5 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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The Naval Warfare of World War II

By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Doug Lee
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Summary

Naval combat underwent a significant metamorphosis during World War II. Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan launched some of the most powerful battleships ever to sail the world's oceans, yet the conflict witnessed the emergence and triumph of the aircraft carrier as the 20th century's true monarch of the seas. Submarine warfare expanded and developed, while aircraft technology and doctrine experienced several revolutionary changes due to the unforgiving demands of the new combat environment.

Popular accounts of World War II frequently focus on the dominance of German panzers over the more lightly armored, lightly armed tanks of the Soviets, British, and Americans or the superb fighting skills of the Waffen SS and ordinary Wehrmacht soldiers. Germany's land forces enjoyed an undoubted advantage over their enemies thanks to excellent vehicle technology while German soldiers slaughtered vast numbers of Soviet conscripts and proved formidable opponents even to their better-trained English and American counterparts.

However, the Axis failed to secure either the seas or the skies, and their defeat in these theaters ultimately led to their doom. Many highly advanced aircraft designs languished on the drawing boards of Junkers and Messerschmitt engineers, left undeveloped due to high-command disinterest or simple lack of resources. The most advanced fighters developed by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan were equaled or outmatched by such aircraft as the US F6F Hellcat (which achieved kill ratios of between 13 to 1 and 19 to 1 against Japanese "Zero" fighters) or P-51 Mustang.

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American biased, Save your credit and money.

Extremely American and Pacific biased. The Author does not know of British or commonwealth forces, however refers to the English a lot.
Hardly any mention of submarine warfare. Negligible mention naval forces from occupied territories.
It does give a good overview of guadalcanal and midway. Goes into some depth with naval air power.
Overall would have been better titled as "American air power in the Pacific".
The use of human shields on the Japanese home islands hasn't got much to do with Naval warfare has it?

The narration was jumpy at times, don't know if this was the recording or the way the narrator spoke. H9e struggled to pronounce certain words especially German or European language words.

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