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Author : Michael E. Haskew
Publisher : Zenith Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780760348147
"An illustrated history of the aircraft carrier, from World War I through World War II, the Cold War, and today"--
Author : Matt Doeden
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0736851364
Text and photographs introduce aircraft carriers, their parts, and their crew who fix and fly aircraft.
Author : Norman Friedman
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 1682477622
"U.S. Aircraft Carriers Revised Edition is one of the most comprehensive references available on the entire development of U.S. Aircraft Carriers, starting in 1920, with USS Langley CV-1, continuing to Enterprise, the mass-produced Essex-class, and the large Midway-class of post-World War II. Friedman authoritatively analyzes the design and performance histories of this popular type. The long careers of the Nimitz-class and the new Ford-class are also included. Like Friedman's other design history books, U.S. Aircraft Carriers is based largely on formerly classified internal U.S. Navy records"--
Author : Candice Ransom
Publisher : Lerner Publications (Tm)
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781541555679
Explore aircraft carriers in this high-interest look at an exciting military machine. The history of aircraft carriers, their parts, and how they are used in action are covered with leveled text and vibrant photos.
Author : Scot MacDonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Aircraft carriers
ISBN : CORNELL:31924052951021
Author : Tom Clancy
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0425166821
They are floating cities with crews of thousands. They are the linchpins of any military strategy, for they provide what has become the key to every battle fought since World War I: air superiority. The mere presence of a U.S. naval carrier in a region is an automatic display of strength that sends a message no potential enemy can ignore. Now, Tom Clancy welcomes you aboard for a detailed look at how these floating behemoths function. With his trademark style and eye for detail, Clancy brings you naval combat strategy like no one else can.Carrier includes: * Takeoffs and landings: flying into the danger zone * The aircraft onboard: their range, their power, their weaponry * The role of the carrier in modern naval warfare * Exclusive photographs, illustrations and diagrams Plus: An interview with the U.S. Navy's Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Jay Johnson
Author : Norman Polmar
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574886634
Aircraft Carriers is the definitive history of world aircraft carrier development and operations. Norman Polmar’s revised and updated, two-volume classic describes the political and technological factors that influenced aircraft carrier design and construction, meticulously records their operations, and explains their impact on modern warfare. Volume I provides a comprehensive analysis of carrier developments and warfare in the first half of the twentieth century, and examines the advances that allowed the carrier to replace the battleship as the dominant naval weapons system. Polmar gives particular emphasis to carrier operations from World War I, through the Japanese strikes against China in the 1930s, to World War II in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Arctic, and Pacific theaters. It begins with French inventor Clément Ader’s remarkably prescient 1909 description of an aircraft carrier. The book then explains how Britain led the world in the development of aircraft-carrying ships, soon to be followed by the United States and Japan. While ship-based aircraft operations in World War I had limited impact, they foreshadowed the aircraft carriers built in the 1920s and 1930s. The volume also describes the aircraft operating from those ships as well as the commanders who pioneered carrier aviation. Aircraft Carriers has benefited from the technical collaboration of senior carrier experts Captain Eric M. Brown and General Minoru Genda as well as noted historians Robert M. Langdon and Peter B. Mersky. Aircraft Carriers is heavily illustrated with more than 400 photographs—some never before published—and maps. Volume II, which is forthcoming from Potomac Books in the winter 2006-2007 (ISBN 978-1-57488-665-8), will cover the period 1946 to the present.
Author : Paul M. Somers
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0738532088
Lake Michigan's Aircraft Carriers is the story of the USS Wolverine and the USS Sable, two Great Lakes excursion ships converted for use as aircraft carrier training during World War II. Through the duration of the war, the United States Navy qualified 17,800 pilots for aircraft carrier operation. Training the pilots on either the Atlantic or the Pacific Ocean would have exposed the training ships to the danger of submarine attack, while requiring the escort of fighting ships that were needed elsewhere. It would also have involved arming and armoring the ships used for training. Commander R.F. Whitehead came up with an idea that solved all of these problems. He suggested doing the training on the protected waters of the Great Lakes. The USS Wolverine and the USS Sable were chosen and thus became the only fresh water, paddle-wheeled, coal-fired aircraft carriers in the history of the world. Author Paul M. Somers shares his collection of vintage photos and a lifetime of research to detail the history of these two great vessels-from their life as cruise ships to their contributions to the war effort and then to their eventual scrapping.
Author : David Hobbs
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848321380
This book is a meticulously detailed history of British aircraft-carrying ships from the earliest experimental vessels to the Queen Elizabeth class, currently under construction and the largest ships ever built for the Royal Navy. Individual chapters cover the design and construction of each class, with full technical details, and there are extensive summaries of every ship's career. Apart from the obvious large-deck carriers, the book also includes seaplane carriers, escort carriers and MAC ships, the maintenance ships built on carrier hulls, unbuilt projects, and the modern LPH. It concludes with a look at the future of naval aviation, while numerous appendices summarise related subjects like naval aircraft, recognition markings and the circumstances surrounding the loss of every British carrier. As befits such an important reference work, it is heavily illustrated with a magnificent gallery of photos and plans, including the first publication of original plans in full colour, one on a magnificent gatefold.??Written by the leading historian of British carrier aviation, himself a retired Fleet Air Arm pilot, it displays the authority of a lifetime's research combined with a practical understanding of the issues surrounding the design and operation of aircraft carriers. As such British Aircraft Carriers is certain to become the standard work on the subject.
Author : Michael E. Haskew
Publisher : Zenith Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780760351437
Step aboard the floating cities that patrol international waters, launch aircraft from their decks, and decide the fate of war. Behold the king of naval warfare: the aircraft carrier. Soon after the Wright Brothers' historic flight in 1903, officials explored the airplane's military applications. The seaplane and the flying boat were conceived to combine air and naval operations, but their potential proved limited. Aircraft that could operate from the deck of a ship, however, offered tremendous possibilities. A few visionaries seized the opportunity, and by mid-century the aircraft carrier eclipsed the battleship as the preeminent weapon of naval warfare. Since the first successful launch of an airplane from the deck of a naval ship in 1910, "fighting flattops" have evolved into immense, nuclear-powered vessels--floating cities capable of launching dozens of aircraft performing a variety of missions, including attack, escort, antisubmarine patrol, and deterrence. This illustrated history covers that evolution, from the first tentative steps taken by naval aviators before World War I to the roles these massive ships have played in the War on Terror. While author Michael Haskew focuses on US Navy carriers, he also provides coverage of parallel and competing carrier developments overseas. In addition to explaining the technologies behind past and present carriers and their aircraft, Haskew reexamines major engagements involving carriers, especially the epic Pacific battles of World War II, as well as personalities who were central to carrier development and deployment and naval doctrine relating to carriers. Filled with carefully curated period photography and modern images showing aircraft carriers throughout the decades, Aircraft Carriers is a celebration of naval warfare's most important innovation.
Author : Heather Moore Niver
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781433984952
Aircraft carriers are truly impressive "cities at sea." Their monstrous size alone can fill visitors with awe. However, the people who live on carriers and the jobs they do every day are just as extraordinary. Pilots who land jets with precision, engineers who piece together weapons, and technicians who fuel vehicles in the midst of dangerous situations are just some of the heroes of the navy highlighted in this book.
Author : Davide F. Jabes,Stefano Sappino
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
From 1941, Italy had been developing a top-secret project to install guided rocket weapons aboard aircraft carriers. Campini Capron s revolutionary guided rocket weapon, the DAAC, which would later become Hitler s Henschel HS-117 Schmetterling ( Butterfly ), was the selected projectile. Classified intelligence on the V-1 flying bomb and other aircraft projects were acquired and then discarded when Ansaldo s naval architect, Lino Campagnoli (1911 1975), issued plans for the Impero battleship to be transformed into a modern fleet carrier. Previously unpublished documentation reveals how the last of the four state-of-the-art Littorio-class battleships, which was in advanced completion (hull components and engines installed), was destined for conversion into a modern aircraft carrier. This is an exhaustive historical review of the Impero and Regia Marina s (Royal Navy) developments as well as the dramatic story of the lack of co-operation and strategic insight with Regia Aeronautica before and during the war (1922-1943). Also, a final evaluation of the revolutionary Pugliese anti-torpedo system, based on unpublished German and Russian documentation, is assessed.
Author : Bernard Ireland
Publisher : Southwater Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1780192177
A guide to aircraft carriers, from zeppelin and seaplane carriers to V/STOL and nuclear-powered carriers. It examines the evolution of the aircraft carrier, from the first flights from ships in World War I, developments during the inter-war years and World War II battles such as Pearl Harbor, through to modern carriers used in the Falklands.
Author : Edmund L. Castillo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041665931
Traces the history of aircraft carriers from the first flight from a ship in 1910 to the present-day operations of a nuclear-powered carrier.
Author : Norman Friedman
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015013059038
This companion volume to Friedman's U.S. Destroyers assembles material on the history of the American aircraft carrier from the Langley of 1922 to the controversial nuclear-powered giants. Includes numerous black-and-white photographs and excellent ship plans. ISBN 0-87021-739-9 : $44.95.