U.S. Navy Auxiliary Vessels

<p> For more than a century the U.S. Navy's battleships cruisers destroyers submarines and amphibious warfare vessels have depended on a small group of specialized auxiliary ships to provide fuel food ammunition parts and other material support and services. Without these workhorse vessels the U.S. Fleet could not have won in World War II and it could not today deploy and remain on station in the far distant waters of the world.</p><p> This book provides the rosters histories specifications and illustrations of 130 different auxiliary ship types in the last 100 years including the little-known ones the latest expeditionary fast transports and future towing salvage and rescue ships.</p>