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Opinion please:" Pacific Express"
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 9:23 pm
by ckk
Sub titled "The Critical Role of Military Logistics in World War II"
Anybody read it? Does it live up to the Title ?
Thanks!
RE: Opinion please:" Pacific Express"
Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 8:48 am
by Trugrit
I’ve never read it.
But, The Naval History and Heritage Command have an online reading room.
They have just opened a new website which is not as good as the old website but much original source material is still there if you can find it.
You might be interested in this: Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil.
http://www.history.navy.mil/research/li ... k-oil.html
An AAR of logistics in the Pacific War.
The appendix is very useful.
Of special interest are the many rare photographs of support vessels.
The Glossary of Abbreviations is one of the best I’ve seen.
RE: Opinion please:" Pacific Express"
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 8:49 am
by chemkid
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RE: Opinion please:" Pacific Express"
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2015 2:45 pm
by ckk
ORIGINAL: Trugrit
I’ve never read it.
But, The Naval History and Heritage Command have an online reading room.
They have just opened a new website which is not as good as the old website but much original source material is still there if you can find it.
You might be interested in this: Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil.
http://www.history.navy.mil/research/li ... k-oil.html
An AAR of logistics in the Pacific War.
The appendix is very useful.
Of special interest are the many rare photographs of support vessels.
The Glossary of Abbreviations is one of the best I’ve seen.
Trugrit
Thanks for the great reference. I was just wondering if maybe there was a different viewpoint after 60 years
RE: Opinion please:" Pacific Express"
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2015 5:59 pm
by John 3rd
ORIGINAL: Trugrit
I’ve never read it.
But, The Naval History and Heritage Command have an online reading room.
They have just opened a new website which is not as good as the old website but much original source material is still there if you can find it.
You might be interested in this: Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil.
http://www.history.navy.mil/research/li ... k-oil.html
An AAR of logistics in the Pacific War.
The appendix is very useful.
Of special interest are the many rare photographs of support vessels.
The Glossary of Abbreviations is one of the best I’ve seen.
Is bullets, beans, and black oil any good?
RE: Opinion please:" Pacific Express"
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2015 10:08 pm
by wgs_explorer
Also, by the same author is
Ships, Salvage, and Sinews of War for the Atlantic/Mediterranean theater.
There is a similar book: U. S. Naval Logistics in the Second World War which is
here.
Bill
RE: Opinion please:" Pacific Express"
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2015 4:40 pm
by Trugrit
John,
Yes it is good. Admiral Spruance liked it.
Kind of a dry read though.
Keith
RE: Opinion please:" Pacific Express"
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2015 10:30 pm
by John 3rd
Thanks. I will look at it.
RE: Opinion please:" Pacific Express"
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 4:45 pm
by Bearcat2
Reading Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil; I found it interesting that Fleet Oilers were transporting airplanes, and how did they find room for 60+ planes on those CVE's? and just what is "star-gaging 6-inch guns "?
RE: Opinion please:" Pacific Express"
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 8:41 am
by Trugrit
Gun maintenance
When guns are fired metal is removed from the barrel.
A star gauge is a rod for measuring gun wear.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Star+gauge
How it is done is in the last paragraph:
http://fas.org/man/dod-101/navy/docs/sw ... INFO7.html
CVE’s pack their decks with planes that have folding wings.
Something I did not know:
From the abbreviations:
YP - District Patrol vessels were called ‘Yippies”