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Navy, Royal Navy, Royal Australian Navy, and Royal Netherlands Navy Mine Forces Battling the Japanese in the Pacific in World War II\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs war with Japan was imminent, the British laid minefields off Hong Kong and Singapore; the Dutch in the Netherlands East Indies; and the Australians off New Zealand and Australia, in an attempt to prevent enemy invasion. Ships hastily converted to this task were referred to as \"night raiders.\" Duty aboard a \"floating ammunition dump\" was hazardous enough; missions carried out under the cloak of darkness increased the odds of survival in enemy waters. As MacArthur, Halsey, and Spruance's forces advanced toward Japan, minesweepers worked with \"night raiders\"—clearing waters off landing beaches, while minelayers strove to deny the enemy freedom of the sea. Australian seaplanes (\"Black Cats\") flew long, perilous night-missions to mine Japanese harbors, and British submarines and planes joined in the attack on shipping. Late in the war, USAAF bombers ringed the Japanese home islands with thousands of mines. When hostilities ended, war-weary \"sweep sailors\" remained in Asian waters—ridding the sea of \"shipkillers.\" The little-known efforts of these valiant men are illuminated in this rare look into history. One hundred and forty-four photographs, maps, and diagrams; appendices; and an index to full-names, places and subjects add value to this work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCdr. David D. Bruhn, USN (retired) and Lt. Cdr. 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In World War II, survivors of Allied aircraft who found themselves in such straits, looked skyward in desperate hope, particularly those within range of Japanese shore guns, or adrift in enemy waters. Their prayers were answered when large, ungainly PBY Catalina or PBM Mariner seaplanes, whose engines thundered in noisy disproportion to the speed they generated, alighted on the water nearby. In the face of gunfire from enemy shore batteries, every second spent as a helpless, fixed target invited disaster for the pilots and aircrews of these plucky planes. Nevertheless, they willingly risked their lives to bring the survivors of downed aircraft, and sunken vessels, back from the shadow of death on slow, sure wings. Air-sea rescue operations were often hazardous, even in the absence of enemy threat. Seemingly calm whitecaps viewed from the air, might well be rolling swells twenty feet high, forcing pilots to put down on moving slopes of water. Gigantic bounces in heavy seas often resulted in damage that prevented their taking flight again. In this companion book to Eyes of the Fleet and Ingram's Fourth Fleet, readers take flight with the heroic aircrews of rescue aircraft scouring ocean waters for their fellow Allied servicemen. Salvation from the Sky also visits four future American presidents—John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and George H. W. Bush—who were then serving in the Pacific Theater.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOne hundred seventy-nine photographs; maps and diagrams; appendices; a bibliography; and an index to full-names, places, and subjects add value to this work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCdr. David D. 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In this case, the impetus for much of the emigration was in reaction to the merger in 1817 of the Calvinist and Lutheran confessions in Prussia ordered by King Friedrich Wilhelm III. About 7,500 Lutherans are named, with the majority bound for the U.S., many with the specific destination of Texas. The immigrants are arranged chronologically and thereunder by their town\/province of origin in Prussia. In most instances, we find the passenger's name, age, occupation, and the maiden names of female passengers. The lists themselves are followed by an intriguing collection of notes concerning persons traveling without their spouses, surname and place name indexes, and other finding aids. 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But once you've started you often find that the amount of detail that is available in German records exceeds that of comparable English records.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt goes without saying that some understanding of the history of the region helps the researcher better understand the lives of their ancestors (the same goes for any region), and this book helps with that.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt also takes the reader through the issues surrounding names of people and places that tend to confuse the beginner, and it points to records that can be accessed from within Australia as well as those overseas from Australia that are able to provide the foundation upon which research into our German ancestors can be built.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn increasing variety of material, including maps, gazetteers, census records, newspapers, passenger lists and some civil records of birth, marriage and death, and church records of baptisms, marriage burial have been digitized and indexed and are being made available online. This book gives guidance as to how to access these.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut it's not all online by any stretch of the imagination, and the reader is reminded of the value of being part of a family history, genealogy or local history organization, both locally and overseas. 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Sadly, those lists were destroyed during the final year of World War II. The lists that have survived from this period pertain to the port of Hamburg and are in the custody of the Hamburg police authorities. (For the early years of this migration, the original Hamburg lists do not exist; instead, researchers must rely on transcriptions made by police clerks in large bound registers.)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorking from microfilm copies of the Hamburg police lists, Clifford Neal Smith has here reconstructed the identities of about 7,000 Hamburg passengers whose names were found among 60 separate lists for the year 1850. For each entry the compiler provides the following information: passenger's surname, given name, occupation, birthplace, and reference number from the police register. The lists themselves were published originally as the first three Parts of this volume, each of which concluded with a surname index. The fourth and final Part contains the author's supplemental notes on the emigrants' places of origin–a heroic effort on the part of Mr. Smith to differentiate among the 1,750 places of origin mentioned in the police lists. Since the original lists do not distinguish among villages of the same name, the author provides his own alphabetical listing of every place name from eastern and central Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Hungary from which an emigrant may have originated–complete with latitude and longitude coordinates.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSupported by Introductory comments, lists of abbreviations, and lists of sources, this scarce consolidation is a must for anyone whose ancestor might have left from Hamburg in 1850.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eClifford Neal Smith\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1980, 1981), 2005, paper, 292 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806352787\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-9877\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41763792289910,"sku":"102-9877","price":57.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-9877-1500px.png?v=1777310893"}],"url":"https:\/\/heritagebooks.com\/collections\/australia-and-the-pacific\/german+immigration.oembed","provider":"Heritage Books, Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}