The history of aircraft carriers: an authoritative guide to 100 years of aircraft carrier development, from the first flights from ships in the early 1900s through to the present day
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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ireland, Bernard (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London Southwater 2008
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Item Description:Includes index
First flights from ships -- Zeppelins -- Seaplanes versus landplanes -- The Dardanelles Campaign -- Fighters aboard ships -- Air-dropped torpedoes -- Teh Konigsberg operation -- Naval aviationat Jutland -- Teh first naval air strikes -- British shipborne aircraft of World War I -- Rigid airships after World War I -- The sempill mission and Japanese naval aviation -- The Washington Treaties (1921-22) -- Carrier operational philosophies -- "Billy" Mitchell and the US Navy bombing trials -- Catapults and arresters -- Aircraft aboard submarines -- Inter-war development in carrier aircraft -- Amoured versus "open" construction -- Taranto -- The Bismarck operation -- The Battle of Matapan -- Pearl Harbor -- The Doolittle Raid and the Battle of the Coral Sea -- The Battle of Midway -- Escort carriers -- Carrier aircraft development during World War II -- The Battle of Santa Cruz -- Battle of the Philippine Sea -- Leyte Gulf -- Post-war aircraft carrier developments -- Carriers in the Korean War -- Carriers for sale -- Suez -- The impact of helicopters -- Carrier jet aircraft developments -- Naval air power in Vietnam -- Carrier battle groups and tactics -- The introduction of V/STOL -- Argument - large or small carriers? -- Assault carriers -- Carriers in the Falklands War
Physical Description:96 S. zahlr. Ill. 30 cm

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