Far Away Places - Marshall, M. Ernest
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Following the First World War, it was expected that the next war would be between Japan and the U.S. for control of the vast Pacific Ocean. Responsibility for conducting surveillance of the Pacific to detect attacks from Japan fell to the Navy. This was a problem for the Navy because surface ships were too slow and the Navy had too few of them, and airplanes lacked the range to conduct the needed reconnaissance. Based upon the Germans' experience with dirigibles in WWI, which demonstrated that Zeppelins (airships) could range for thousands of miles on a single tank of fuel, the Navy turned to…mehr

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Following the First World War, it was expected that the next war would be between Japan and the U.S. for control of the vast Pacific Ocean. Responsibility for conducting surveillance of the Pacific to detect attacks from Japan fell to the Navy. This was a problem for the Navy because surface ships were too slow and the Navy had too few of them, and airplanes lacked the range to conduct the needed reconnaissance. Based upon the Germans' experience with dirigibles in WWI, which demonstrated that Zeppelins (airships) could range for thousands of miles on a single tank of fuel, the Navy turned to airships to solve its problem. This book is the interwar history of the Navy and its attempt to develop an airship program to conduct surveillance of the 60 million square miles of ocean and over 95,000 miles of shoreline against invasion from Japan. Thousands of pages of archival material from the NARA, newspapers, books, and the unpublished personal memoir of Vice Admiral Charles Rosendahl are used to weave the story of this time in history and focuses both on technology and conflicts within the Navy Department that affected the outcome.
Autorenporträt
M. Ernest Marshall, M.D. is a graduate of the School of Arts & Sciences and School of Medicine of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. A former Professor of Medicine in Hematology/Oncology, he is currently an award-winning author/historian focused on U.S. Navy history during the World Wars and inter-war years. His book, Rear Admiral Herbert V. Wiley - A Career in Airships and Battleships was the recipient of the prestigious Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison Award for naval literature given by the New York Commandery of the Naval Order of the United States. He is noted for the depth of his research and his fluid writing style. With an abiding interest in the individuals who lived the history about which he writes, much of his work is biographical and based on oral histories and memoirs. The personal accounts are woven into official archival records from the National Archives and Research Administration. His research philosophy is, "if it can be known, I want to know it." He is a member of a number of historical societies including the Society for Military History, Naval Historical Foundation, Naval Airship Association, Naval War College Foundation, Naval Order of the United States, and Navy Lakehurst Historical Society. He resides in Charlottesville, Virginia, with his wife, Lisa.