Cuirassés - USA : livres - histoire et déploiement

U.S. Battleships 1939-45

Pendant près de 50 ans, les cuirassés ont été les armes navales les plus puissantes, utilisés par la marine américaine et d'autres flottes. Leur domination sembla prendre fin en 1941 lorsque les avions japonais en coulèrent plusieurs à Pearl Harbor, marquant l'essor des porte-avions. Pourtant, les cuirassés américains continuèrent à servir durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et la Guerre froide.

L'historien naval Ingo Bauernfeind retrace l'histoire des cuirassés et croiseurs de bataille américains, des dreadnoughts de la classe South Carolina aux Montana jamais construits. Cet ouvrage illustré décrit leur carrière, leur sort et leur importance dans l'histoire navale américaine.
Il couvre les batailles du Pacifique et les bombardements d'Iwo Jima, Okinawa et du débarquement en Normandie. Il explore aussi le rôle des cuirassés de la classe Iowa dans les guerres de Corée et du Vietnam, ainsi que leur retour inattendu en 1991 lors de la guerre du Golfe, où l'USS Missouri et l'USS Wisconsin utilisèrent missiles guidés, drones et canons de 406 mm.
Le livre se termine par une visite guidée de l'USS Missouri, un aperçu des sept cuirassés préservés en musées, et une plongée sur les épaves de l'USS Arizona et de l'USS Utah à Pearl Harbor.

Caractéristiques

Auteur :	Ingo Bauernfeind
Présentation :	240 pages, 25.5 x 20 x 1.8 cm, relié
Illustration :	photos en N&B
Langue :	anglais
Editeur :	Casemate Books (GB, 2024)
ISBN :	9781636242569

Super-Battleships of World War II: Montana-class, Lion-class, H-class, A-150 and Sovetsky Soyuz-class (Osprey)

Au début de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le cuirassé régnait en maître, et toutes les grandes puissances concevaient des navires encore plus puissants pour surpasser leurs classes les plus modernes et performantes. Mais lorsque le conflit éclata, les porte-avions allaient dominer la guerre navale, et aucun de ces monstres marins ne fut achevé.

Dans cet ouvrage, l'expert naval Mark Stille dévoile la reconstitution de ces cuirassés disparus, illustrée de superbes illustrations en couleurs. L'US Navy souhaitait cinq navires de classe Montana, dérivés des Iowa mais dotés d'une artillerie principale plus puissante et d'une protection renforcée, tandis que la Royal Navy lançait la construction de trois cuirassés rapides de classe Lion, armés de canons de 406 mm.
La marine allemande développa ses navires de classe H : initialement une version améliorée de la classe Bismack, ils devinrent plus extravagants, aboutissant au H-44 de 141 500 tonnes, armé de canons de 508 mm. Le A-150 japonais était basé sur la classe Yamato, mais avec des canons de 511 mm, tandis que les 15 navires prévus pour la classe Sovetsky Soyuz soviétique auraient rivalisé avec les Montana en termes de taille.
Expliquant la conception, les rôles prévus et le destin de ces navires, voici l'histoire des derniers modèles de cuirassés de l'histoire.

Contenu :
- Introduction
- Pratiques de conception des cuirassés
- Protection
- Propulsion
- Puissance de feu
- Les classes de super-cuirassés
- La marine américaine - la classe Montana
- La Royal Navy - la classe Lion
- La Kriegsmarine - la classe H
- La Marine impériale japonaise - Modèle A-150
- La marine soviétique - la classe Sovetsky Soyouz
- Analyse et conclusion
- Pour en savoir plus
- Index.

Caractéristiques

Auteur :	Mark Stille, Paul Wright
Présentation :	48 pages, 24.5 x 18.5 x 0.5 cm, broché
Illustration :	40 photos en N&B, dessins en couleurs
Langue :	anglais
Editeur :	Osprey Publishing (GB, 2022)
Série :	New Vanguard (314)
ISBN :	9781472846723

US Navy Battleships 1895-1908 : The Great White Fleet and the beginning of US global naval power (Osprey)

The last predreadnought battleships of the US Navy were critical to the technological development of US battleships, and they were the first tool of international hard power wielded by the United States, a nation which would eventually become the world's dominant political and military power of the 20th century.
These battleships were the stars of the 1907-09 Great White Fleet circumnavigation, in which the emerging power and reach of the US Navy was displayed around the world. They also took part in the bombardment and landings at Veracruz, some served as convoy escorts in World War I, and the last two were transferred to the Hellenic Navy and were sunk during World War II.

This book examines the design, history, and technical qualities of the final six classes of US predreadnought battleships, all of which were involved in the circumnavigation of the Great White Fleet. These classes progressively closed the quality gap with European navies - the Connecticuts were the finest predreadnought battleships ever built - and this book also compares and contrasts US predreadnought battleships to their foreign contemporaries.

Packed with illustrations and specially commissioned artwork, this is an essential guide to the development of US Navy Battleships at the turn of the twentieth century.

Caractéristiques

Auteur :	Brian Lane Herder
Présentation :	48 pages, 24.5 x 18.5 x 1.5 cm, broché
Illustration :	40 photos en N&B, dessins en couleurs
Langue :	anglais
Editeur :	Osprey Publishing (GB, 2020)
Série :	New Vanguard
ISBN :	9781472839985

US Navy Battleships 1886-98 : The pre-dreadnoughts and monitors that fought the Spanish-American War (Osprey)

After the American Civil War, the US Navy had been allowed to decay into complete insignificance, yet the commissioning of the modern Brazilian battleship Riachuelo and poor performance against the contemporary Spanish fleet, forced the US out of its isolationist posture towards battleships.
The first true US battleships began with the experimental Maine and Texas, followed by the three-ship Indiana class, and the Iowa class, which incorporated lessons from the previous ships. These initial ships set the enduring US battleship standard of being heavily armed and armoured at the expense of speed.

This fully illustrated study examines these first six US battleships, a story of political compromises, clean sheet designs, operational experience, and experimental improvements. These ships directly inspired the creation of an embryonic American military-industrial complex, enabled a permanent outward-looking shift in American foreign policy and laid the foundations of the modern US Navy.

Caractéristiques

Auteur :	Brian Lane Herder
Présentation :	48 pages, 25 x 18.5 cm, broché
Illustration :	photos en N&B, dessins en couleurs
Langue :	anglais
Editeur :	Osprey Publishing (GB, 2019)
Série :	New Vanguard
ISBN :	9781472835024

USS New York (BB-34) - From World War I to the Atomic Age (Legends of Warfare)

The battleship USS New York served the Navy from 1914 until just after WWII. New York was famously sent to reinforce the British Grand Fleet during WWI. Extensively rebuilt and modernized in 1927-28, New York continued to serve both in the Atlantic and the Pacific fleets and was in drydock being further modernized on December 7, 1941.
It rejoined the fleet, first providing escort in the Atlantic, then providing gunfire support for Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa. Transferred to the Pacific Fleet in late 1944, New York turned its 14-inch guns on enemy positions at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Following the war, New York was declared obsolete and used as a target for the 1946 atomic blasts at Bikini Atoll, survived the tests, and was eventually sunk by conventional weapons in July 1948.

The hundreds of photographs in this volume trace the history of this warship from its launching in 1914, through two world wars, to atomic bomb testing. Part of the Legends of Warfare series.

Caractéristiques

Auteur :	David Doyle
Présentation :	112 pages, 23 x 23.5 x 1.7 cm, relié
Illustration :	241 photos en N&B et en couleurs
Langue :	anglais
Editeur :	Schiffer Publishing Ltd (USA, 2019)
Série :	Legends of Warfare
ISBN :	9780764358241

USS Tennessee (BB-43) - From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa in World War II (Legends of Warfare)

Although bombed at Pearl Harbor, USS Tennessee was back to sea before the year was over. The crew of the resilient warship fought from Alaska's Aleutian Islands to Tokyo Bay, surviving enemy artillery, bombs, and kamikaze attacks, and even collisions with other American warships. In 1945, Tennessee took part in the famous Battle of Surigao Strait, the last battleship versus battleship combat in history.

The hundreds of photographs in this volume, many previously unpublished, trace the history of this iconic warship from its launching in Brooklyn in 1919 to its scrapping in Baltimore forty years later. Part of the Legends of Warfare series.

Caractéristiques

Auteur :	David Doyle
Présentation :	128 pages, 23.5 x 24 x 1.8 cm, relié
Illustration :	255 photos en N&B et en couleurs
Langue :	anglais
Editeur :	Schiffer Publishing Ltd (USA, 2019)
Série :	Legends of Warfare
ISBN :	9780764356681

USN Battleship vs IJN Battleship : The Pacific 1942-44 (Osprey)

À l'approche de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, les États-Unis et le Japon pensaient que leurs cuirassés joueraient un rôle central dans les combats, mais après le début de la guerre du Pacifique en décembre 1941, le rôle du cuirassé s'est avéré beaucoup plus limité que prévu par les deux camps.

Seuls deux affrontements entre cuirassés eurent lieu dans le Pacifique durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, tous deux analysés dans cette étude captivante. À Guadalcanal en 1942, le Kirishima affronta deux cuirassés américains modernes, l'USS Washington et l'USS South Dakota.
Dans le détroit de Surigao en 1944, deux cuirassés japonais de la Première Guerre mondiale, le Yamashiro et le Fuso, ont affronté six cuirassés américains soutenus par quatre croiseurs lourds lors du tout dernier affrontement de l'histoire entre cuirassés.

À l'aide d'illustrations en couleur, de photographies d'archives soigneusement sélectionnées et d'analyses d'experts, l'ancien commandant de la marine américaine Mark E. Stille examine les deux affrontements directs entre les cuirassés déployés par les États-Unis et le Japon dans la lutte pour le contrôle du Pacifique pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

Caractéristiques

Auteur :	Mark E. Stille
Présentation :	80 pages, 25 x 18.5 x 0.8 cm, broché
Illustration :	abondamment illustré de photos et de dessins en couleurs
Langue :	anglais
Editeur :	Osprey Publishing (GB, 2017)
Série :	Duel (83)
ISBN :	9781472817198

U.S. Battleships : An Illustrated Design History

Naval historians and enthusiasts alike will find U.S. Battleships to be the most comprehensive reference available on the entire development of U.S. battleships, from the Maine and Texas of 1886, through the Montana class of World War II, up to the recommissioned Iowas.
Like the other books in Norman Friedman's design-history series, U.S. Battleships is based largely on formerly classified internal U.S. Navy records.

Friedman, a leading authority of U.S. warships, explains the political and technical rationales for building battleships and recounts the evolution of each design.
Alan Raven and A.D. Baker III have created detailed scale outboard and plan views of each battleship class and of major modifications to many classes. Numerous photographs complement the text.

Caractéristiques

Auteur :	Norman Friedman, Alan Raven, A.D. Baker
Présentation :	480 pages, 28 x 21.5 cm, broché
Illustration :	184 photos en N&B, 164 dessins
Langue :	anglais
Editeur :	Naval Institute Press (USA, 2016)
ISBN :	9781591142478

US Standard-Type Battleships 1941-45 (1) : Nevada, Pennsylvania and New Mexico Classes (Osprey)

Written by US Navy expert Mark Stille, this book offers a unique insight into the Standard-type classes of US battleships. It provides a detailed investigation into the histories of each of the warships in the Standard-type battleship classes, the first three of which, the Nevada, Pennsylvania and New Mexico, formed the US Navy's main force in the inter-war period.

The Standard-types reflected a new design philosophy: by designing each class to meet common standards of maneuvrability and handling, vessels of different classes could operate as a single tactical unit without being limited by the performance of the slowest and least maneuvrable ship.
At the time of their construction, these ships incorporated the latest design features such as triple gun turrets. Although they were rendered increasingly obsolete by evolving naval doctrines and the ascendance of the fast battleship, they served with distinction throughout World War II.

This study combines analysis of design features and an absorbing narrative of operational histories to offer a comprehensive picture of the Standard-type battleships, from the brutal destruction of the USS Arizona to the triumphant occupation of Japan.

Contents: Introduction - Pre-war naval strategy and the role of the battleship - Design developments - Weapons - Radar - Nevada class - Pennsylvania class - New Mexico class - Analysis and Conclusion - Bibliography - Index.

Caractéristiques

Auteur :	Mark Stille
Présentation :	48 pages, 25 x 18.5 x 0.6 cm, broché
Illustration :	abondamment illustré de photos et dessins (en N&B et en couleurs)
Langue :	anglais
Editeur :	Osprey Publishing (GB, 2015)
Série :	New Vanguard (220)
ISBN :	9781472806963

US Standard-Type Battleships 1941-45 (2): Tennessee, Colorado and Unbuilt Classes (Osprey)

This book completes an authoritative two-part study on the Standard-type US battleships of World War II - ships that were designed to fight a different type of war than the one that unfolded.
It gives precise technical details of the design history and features of the Tennessee, Colorado and the unfinished South Dakota and Lexington classes, whilst providing an operational history of the former two.

Written by a leading expert on the US Navy in World War II and augmented by contemporary photographs and specially commissioned illustrations, this is the other half of the story of the US Standard-type battleships - from the terrible damage they sustained at Pearl Harbor to their support of the war-winning landings of the US Marine Corps and US Army.

Contents: Introduction - World War II naval strategy and the role of the battleship - Design developments - Weapons - Fire control - Tactics - Tennessee class - Colorado class - South Dakota class - Lexington class - Analysis and Conclusion - Bibliography - Index.

Caractéristiques

Auteur :	Paul Wright
Présentation :	48 pages, 25 x 18.5 x 0.5 cm, broché
Illustration :	abondamment illustré de photos et dessins (en N&B et en couleurs)
Langue :	anglais
Editeur :	Osprey Publishing (GB, 2015)
Série :	New Vanguard (229)
ISBN :	9781472806994

Battleships of the United States Navy - Rare photographs from Wartime Archives (Images of War)

From 1895 to 1944 the US Navy commissioned some 60 steel-clad battleships; the first being Indiana (BB-1) and the last USS Missouri (BB-63). After an impressive showing in the Spanish-American War and the 'Great White Fleet's' circumnavigation of the world, US battleships played only a minor role in the First World War.

They came into their own in WW2 primarily bombarding enemy held coastal regions and supporting Allied operations in Europe and the Pacific.
Their firepower was awesome and the later examples had nine 16-inch and up to twenty 5-inch guns plus copious anti-aircraft defences.
On the few occasions these mighty ships took on Japanese counterparts, they performed brilliantly but protection of the increasingly important aircraft carriers was more decisive. Armour plate nearly a foot and a half thick saved many from fatal attack from suicidal kamikaze pilots.

Post WW2 the battleships were relegated to war reserve status but later their value projecting American military power worldwide and their conversion to platforms for cruise missile saw their re-birth. The last US battleship retired in 1992 having served in the Korean and Vietnam War, the Middle East and finally Desert Storm.

This fine book gives the expert and layman a privileged overview of one of the greatest weapon systems in military history.

Caractéristiques

Auteur :	Michael Green
Présentation :	176 pages, 24.5 x 19 cm, broché
Illustration :	250 photos en N&B et en couleurs
Langue :	anglais
Editeur :	Pen & Sword Books Ltd (GB, 2014)
Série :	Images of War
ISBN :	9781783030354

US Navy Dreadnoughts 1914-45 (Osprey)

The development of the US Navy's dreadnought battleships was a pivotal part of America's evolution into a true world power. By the beginning of World War I, the United States possessed the world's third largest navy, with ten dreadnoughts in service and four more under construction. By the end of World War II, the US Navy was the undoubted global superpower, despite initial crippling losses to its battlefleet at Pearl Harbor.
Richly illustrated with archive photographs as well as a full cutaway of the world's only surviving dreadnought, this comprehensive and detailed title covers the technical characteristics and combat record of the US dreadnoughts throughout their long careers.

Contents: Introduction - American Dreadnought Classes (South Carolina class, Delaware class, Florida class, Wyoming class, New York class) - American Dreadnought Operations - Conclusion.

Caractéristiques

Auteur :	Ryan Noppen
Présentation :	48 pages, 25 x 18.5 x 0.5 cm, broché
Illustration :	abondamment illustré de photos et dessins (en N&B et en couleurs)
Langue :	anglais
Editeur :	Osprey Publishing (GB, 2014)
Série :	New Vanguard (208)
ISBN :	9781782003861

Historic Battleship Texas - The Last Dreadnought

During the first quarter of the 20th century, the major naval powers of the world built hundreds of Dreadnought-style battleships. Today there is only one.
The battleship Texas was for a time the most powerful weapon on earth. When it was commissioned in 1914, the 14-inch guns were the largest in the world. This technological marvel of the time served with the British Grand Fleet in World War I and was the flagship of the entire U.S. Navy between the two World Wars.

During the Second World War, an older Texas, past its prime, supported amphibious invasions in North Africa, Normandy, Southern France, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. The ship and her crew were preparing for the invasion of Japan when the war ended and the Texas came home.
No longer needed to defend her country, the Texas was saved from the scrap yard to become our nation's first historic ship museum in 1948. Now lying peacefully in her berth at the San Jacinto State Park near Houston, the battleship Texas is still serving her country-teaching instead of fighting.

The Texas is the only battleship remaining in the world today that served in World War I, and the only ship remaining of any type that served in both World Wars. This is the story of the battleship Texas and the brave men who walked its decks.

Caractéristiques

Auteur :	John C. Ferguson
Présentation :	192 pages, 23 x 15 x 1.1 cm, broché
Illustration :	photos en N&B, cartes
Langue :	anglais
Editeur :	McWhiney Foundation Press (USA, 2007)
ISBN :	9781933337074