Название: Imperial Japanese Navy Antisubmarine Escorts 1941-45
Автор: Mark Stille, Paul Wright
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия: Osprey New Vanguard 248
ISBN: 978 1472818164
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 49
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 37,1 MB

In 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) went to war with a marginal anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capability. This was a lamentable state of affairs for a nation dependent upon imports to sustain its war economy. There were only a few purpose-built ASW escorts available at the start of the war and these were augmented by a handful of second-class destroyers and a dozen torpedo boats. Once the magnitude of the threat to Japan's shipping became fully apparent in 1943, the IJN made plans for mass production of ASW escorts. These arrived in 1944, but could not stop the massacre of Japanese shipping by increasingly bold and effective American submarines.