The Winning Edge: Naval Technology in Action 1939-1945

This lively approach to recording the impact of technology on the war at sea presents a comprehensive description of new technical developments and then offers dramatic examples of their use in action during World War II.

Weapons like the ASCIC (sonar), radar, high frequency direction finding, forward-firing mortars and rocket projectiles are examined in detail, along with the US Navy's development of radar as a counter to Japanese ships and aircraft and an exploration of how US submarines overcame their own faulty torpedoes to decimate enemy shipping. The author looks at how Allied carrier aircraft controlled by multi-channel high-frequency radio, eventually came to dominate surface actions.