Q-ships Versus U-boats: America's Secret ProjectNaval Institute Press, 1999 - 236 pages In a desperate attempt to counteract the deadly onslaught of U-boats in the Atlantic, President Franklin D. Roosevelt initiated a secret project in 1942 that called for the use of decoys disguised as merchant ships. These heavily armed warships were referred to as Q-ships, and very little information about them has been recorded over the past fifty years. Now a U.S. naval officer who served in one of the mystery ships, a decoy-configured freighter by the name of USS Asterion, lifts the shroud of secrecy that has surrounded the mission for so long. His book examines for the first time the origins and operations of Project I.Q, as the secret plan was known. |
Contents
Project LQ | 10 |
Getting Under Way | 58 |
The Game Is Over | 178 |
Copyright | |
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