Summary of Peter Sasgen's Hellcats

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Sarah Simms Edge was expecting another child in August 1945, and was waiting anxiously for a letter from her husband, U. S. Navy commander Lawrence Lott Edge. She was sure that the war would soon be over, and that her husband would be coming home soon.
#2 The letters continued to arrive from Guam before his seventh war patrol, and after his return in late May. Something was wrong, however, when his letters suddenly stopped arriving.
#3 The telegram that Sarah received in April 1942 informing her that her husband was missing in action was a nightmare for her. She had always feared that he would be killed in the war.

Sujets

• Autobiography
• Military
• Biography

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 24 juillet 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822547605
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Peter Sasgen's Hellcats
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11 Insights from Chapter 12 Insights from Chapter 13 Insights from Chapter 14 Insights from Chapter 15 Insights from Chapter 16 Insights from Chapter 17 Insights from Chapter 18 Insights from Chapter 19 Insights from Chapter 20
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Sarah Simms Edge was expecting another child in August 1945, and was waiting anxiously for a letter from her husband, U. S. Navy commander Lawrence Lott Edge. She was sure that the war would soon be over, and that her husband would be coming home soon.

#2

The letters continued to arrive from Guam before his seventh war patrol, and after his return in late May. Something was wrong, however, when his letters suddenly stopped arriving.

#3

The telegram that Sarah received in April 1942 informing her that her husband was missing in action was a nightmare for her. She had always feared that he would be killed in the war.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Charles A. Lockwood, a submarine officer, was deeply affected by the deaths of the more than 3,500 officers and enlisted men serving in the fifty-two subs lost during the war. He vowed that the Japanese would pay a heavy price for every submariner killed.

#2

Lockwood had a premonition that Japan would one day pose a serious threat to the United States, and in due time, war between the two countries broke out.

#3

Lockwood had become one of the Navy’s top experts on submarines and submarine tactics. He had fought hard to change the narrow and hidebound thinking of senior officers who resisted many of the improvements the submarine force needed to undergo.

#4

On March 5, 1942, Lockwood was promoted to rear admiral and ordered to Fremantle, Australia, to relieve Captain John Wilkes, commander of the ragtag SubsAsiatic Force of the Asiatic Fleet. Lockwood was ecstatic. This was what he had been craving all along: action in subs against America’s main enemy.

#5

The submarine force was revived and led by Lockwood, who introduced a new war-fighting doctrine. The new doctrine was based on outmoded and conservative peacetime principles, but it proved to be perfectly suited to the younger skippers who were fast replacing the older, conservative ones.

#6

The tide began to turn against the Japanese as the new generation of skippers took command of the submarines coming off the builders’ ways. Lockwood made steady progress toward solving the Mk 14 torpedo dilemma and convincing the ossified and bullheaded BuOrd that the sub force had a serious problem with its main offensive weapon.

#7

The death of Lockwood’s predecessor, English, was a mystery until an air search team spotted his wreckage a week later in the Ukiah area near Boonville, California, ninety miles from San Francisco and twenty-two miles from the ocean. The big plane had come in low, shearing off treetops before it crashed into a mountain.

#8

Lockwood, who had three gold stripes on each sleeve, arrived in Pearl Harbor in 1943. He faced a long list of issues, from personnel assignments to torpedo shortages. He decided to put the young and eager submarine captains to the test.
Insights from Chapter 3

#1

The question today is: What other ships might be found and what mysteries might be solved by their discovery. The answer to part of that question arrived in 2006, when five lost World War II-era U. S. Navy submarines were found.

#2

The Sea of Japan is surrounded by mainland Asia, the Korean peninsula, and the Japanese islands. Its 250-mile width and 900-mile diagonal length covers an area of about 390,000 square miles. It has a maximum depth of over 12,000 feet, its bottom running up into rocky shallows against the western coast of Japan.