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 who has published articles on local and military history. He has also worked as a newspaper reporter, technical writer, U.S. Navy officer, police officer and emergency management director. He holds an M.S. from the U.S. Army War College and an M.P.A. from Cleveland State University.