Midweek Sortie 22: Engines of Victory: How Navy Engineering Powered America’s World War I Fleet
Before convoys crossed the Atlantic and destroyers hunted U-boats, Navy engineers built the hidden machinery of war: propulsion, radio, repair, production, and endurance.
The Historical Section of the Department of the Navy published seven monographs on the U.S. Navy and World War I between 1920 and 1923.
—Naval History and Heritage Command
Deep below the decks of America’s World War I warships, the true soundtrack of battle wasn’t gunfire, but the pulse of mach…
