Product Highlights
Armed Bluejackets Ashore, by Nelson Lawry, from Fonthill Media (ISBN 9781625450821), chronicles U.S. Navy landing guns used by shore parties between 1850 and 1942.
Features
- 320 pages
- Over 160 photos and illustrations
- Hardcover, 6.75" x 9.75"
About the book
In the mid- to late 19th century, and again in the early 20th, the U.S. Navy landed armed parties ashore in Africa, Asia and Latin America, at times supported by light field guns carried aboard gunboats and warships. The book traces the design and use of every model of U.S. Navy landing gun fielded in that period, from the Civil War-era Dahlgren howitzer to the Mark XI 3-inch gun of the early 1940s.
