W25-29 The U.S. Navy in the Pacific: 1930-1942 NEW
Class | Registration closed 12/15/2024
From December 1941 until the middle of 1943, the U.S. Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy fought on equal terms in the Pacific. Later, the products of America’s massive wartime shipbuilding program overwhelmed the outclassed Japanese Navy with a flood of modern aircraft carriers, surface ships, aircraft and submarines. This course will focus on the prewar American Navy, how it was built, staffed, organized and trained and how it succeeded in turning the course of the war in the pivotal 1942 battles at Coral Sea, Midway and Guadalcanal.
Walter Topp
Walter Topp is a writer and instructor. He has worked at various times as a police officer, naval officer, newspaper reporter, technical writer and emergency manager. He holds an M.S. degree from the U.S. Army War College and a master's degree in Public Administration from Cleveland State University.