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Handbook of the Fleet / Navy

WWII Kriegsmarine U-Boat Pocket Book

483 pages for vessel recognition + 91 pages of very interesting advertisements,
gilt on blue cloth, warship lists of all the major powers.

Used to identify shipping before engagement - helps to avoid scoring any own goals!!
Photographs and silhouettes of all known naval shipping worldwide.
It also gives other essential data like displacement - tonnage, speed in knots, armaments,
armour and depth of keel for any identified target- without which a torpedo firing solution could not be calculated.

An important book used on all German Warships and Submarine U-Boats throughout the war.

Depicted are Destroyer, Cruiser, Battleships, U-Boat, Minesweeper, aircraft carrier, oil tanker and all the other.

1157 sketch profile, photos & plans, illustrations & silhouettes.
4 pages of flags in colour. Index of all ships listed.

Published by J. F. Lehm. Publisher

Approx/Measurements: 6-3/4" x 5"  1 lb.

In very good exterior and very good interior condition.
Mild foxing to edges, name on front endpaper, occasionally pencil markings and annotations to british vessels, else ok.
With 3 newspaper clippings included about US Destroyer Gearing / hijacked Santa Maria,
demolished 
US Destroyer Collett and 4 US Destroyers (DD-679, DD-537, DD-675, DD-678).

All pages are complete and tight in the binding.






Shipping Options

Airmail Airmail shipping with recorded delivery to any destination in the world: $13.95

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