Carrier Operations In World War Ii

Author : J D Brown
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848320420

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Carrier Operations in World War II by J D Brown Pdf

Between 1939 and 1945 the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm grew from a small force into a powerful strategic weapon. British carrier-based aircraft fought throughout the world and David Brown here describes their activities in the Home, Mediterranean, Eastern and British Pacific Fleets, together with Forces created for specific operations, listing aircraft and units embarked during the various phases. He goes on to describe carrier operations in the Pacific between 1941 and 1945, the greatest maritime war in history. Both the United States and Imperial Japanese Navies watched the Royal Navy's early carrier operations in the European Theatre and benefited from the lessons. American aircrews and sailors learnt quickly in action until, by March 1945, the United States Fifth Fleet with its associated Marine Corps formations was probably the most efficient and effective instrument of war deployed in the pre-nuclear age. This new work contains material from two volumes, first published in 1968 and 1974, merged with notes for a third which David Brown prepared but never published before his death. They appear for the first time together, providing the most detailed single-volume account currently available of the operation of British, American and Japanese aircraft carriers in World War II.

Author : Lars Celander
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1612008534

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How Carriers Fought by Lars Celander Pdf

A detailed examination of carriers and carrier operations in WWII, looking at the tools behind the major carrier battles and their evolution throughout the war.

Author : J. D. Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 0711000409

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Carrier Operations in World War II by J. D. Brown Pdf

Author : Lars Celander
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612006222

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How Carriers Fought by Lars Celander Pdf

An in-depth analysis of aircraft carrier battles in WWII and the evolution of carrier operations—from technology and strategy to life among the crew. First built in 1921, the aircraft carrier brought a new dimension to military strategy as the United States entered World War II. How Carriers Fought examines the evolution of carrier operations with a special focus on the conflict in the Pacific between the US Navy and the imperial Japanese fleet. Starting with a discussion of the tools and building blocks of carrier operations, historian Lars Celander then provides an analysis of various carrier battles to demonstrate how strategy and operations developed during the war. Every aspect of carrier warfare is covered, from navigation and communication technology to life inside the cockpit. A world of tactical dehydration and amphetamine pills is explored, as well as the measures pilots used to reduce their risk of death in the event of being hit. The major carrier battles of the war are considered, from Coral Sea and Leyte Gulf to the Battle of Midway, where the Japanese decided to divide their forces while the Americans concentrated theirs. How Carriers Fought analyzes these tactics, exploring which worked best in theory and in practice.

Author : J. D. Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:59987056

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Carrier Operations in World War II. by J. D. Brown Pdf

Author : David Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Aeroplane carriers
ISBN : LCCN:75313409

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Carrier Operations in World War II: The Pacific navies, Dec. 1941-Feb. 1943 by David Brown Pdf

Author : David Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Aircraft carriers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004733817

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Carrier Operations in World War II: The Pacific navies, Dec. 1941-Feb. 1943 by David Brown Pdf

Author : Brian Lane Herder
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472836571

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World War II US Fast Carrier Task Force Tactics 1943–45 by Brian Lane Herder Pdf

Drawing on difficult-to-access wartime documents and other contemporary sources, this is the first compact, illustrated study of the tactics and techniques of the US fast carriers of Task Forces 50, 58 and 38 during the naval war against Japan in 1943–45. This title concentrates on exactly how these highly successful forces actually operated: their composition in ships, aircraft and men; the essential technology at their disposal; the evolving doctrine for their employment; the opposition and dangers they faced; and how they overcame them at the tactical level. It explains in straightforward terms the intricate details of topics such as how ships manoeuvred, how aircraft were deployed and recovered, the formations and approaches used by fighters, dive-bombers and torpedo-bombers against naval and land targets, and how Task Forces defended themselves. The text is supported by a wide range of wartime photos and full-colour illustrations, showing, for example, the formations employed by ships and aircraft, with altitudes and ranges throughout the course of attacks.

Author : James H. Belote,William M. Belote
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015046372127

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Titans of the Seas by James H. Belote,William M. Belote Pdf

Two naval historians follow carrier warfare in the Pacific through Coral Sea, Midway, Easter Solomons, Santa Cruz and the climatic Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 1944.

Author : Donald Nijboer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811772952

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Carrier Strike by Donald Nijboer Pdf

Among many other developments, World War II saw naval warfare shift from the battleship to the aircraft carrier, which remains one of the iconic weapons of the war and the core of modern battle fleets. Developed in the 1920s and 1930s, the aircraft carrier came into its own in World War II and featured prominently in numerous battles, including the Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, and Leyte Gulf. Later in the war, with many of its own carriers destroyed and its carrier-borne air force crippled, the Japanese relied on kamikazes to replace its aerial strike force and to attack the United States’ carrier force, and the United States used its carriers to attack the Japanese homeland. In this photo history, Donald Nijboer traces the history of aircraft carriers, from their early development just after World War I, to the Japanese carrier-borne attack on Pearl Harbor, through the great battles of the Pacific War, which featured some of military history’s great ships: the Yorktown, the Enterprise, the Hornet, the Lexington, and other vessels. Special sections cover British carrier operations in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, as well as the limited carrier operations of the German Navy, including the Graf Zeppelin.

Author : Maurer Maurer
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : United States
ISBN : 9781428915855

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Air Force Combat Units of World War II by Maurer Maurer Pdf

Author : Ryan K. Noppen,Douglas C. Dildy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472846747

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German and Italian Aircraft Carriers of World War II by Ryan K. Noppen,Douglas C. Dildy Pdf

This fully illustrated study details Germany and Italy's failed development of World War II aircraft carriers, and the naval aviation ships that the two Axis powers sent into action in their place. The quest for a modern aircraft carrier was the ultimate symbol of the Axis powers' challenge to Allied naval might, but fully-fledged carriers proved either too difficult, expensive or politically unpopular for either to make operational. After the Anglo-German Naval Agreement of 1935, Hitler publicly stated his intention to build an aircraft carrier, the Graf Zeppelin, which was launched in 1938. A year later, the ambitious fleet-expansion Z-Plan, was unveiled with two additional aircraft carriers earmarked for production . However, by the beginning of World War II, Graf Zeppelin was not yet completed and work was halted. Further aircraft carrier designs and conversion projects such as the ocean liner Europa and heavy cruiser Seydlitz were considered but, in January 1943, all construction work on surface vessels ceased and naval resources were diverted to the U-boat Campaign. This book explains not only the history of Germany's famous Graf Zeppelin fleet carrier and German carrier conversion projects but also Italy's belated attempt to convert two of her ocean liners into carriers. It considers the role of naval aviation in the two countries' rearmament programmes and describes how ultimately it was only Italian seaplane carriers and German ocean-going, catapult-equipped flying boat carriers that both Axis powers did eventually send into combat.

Author : Norman Polmar
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574886634

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Aircraft Carriers by Norman Polmar Pdf

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 : Douglas V Smith
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612514420

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Carrier Battles by Douglas V Smith Pdf

A longtime professor at the Naval War College who once directed strategic and long-range planning for the Navy and Marine Corps in Europe considers the transformation of the U.S. Navy from a defensive-minded coastal defense force into an offensive risk-taking navy in the very early stages of World War II. Noting that none of the navy’s most significant World War II leaders were commissioned before the Spanish-American War and none participated in any important offensive operations in World War I, Douglas Smith examines the premise that education, rather than experience in battle, accounts for that transformation. In this book, Smith evaluates his premise by focusing on the five carrier battles of the second world war to determine the extent to which the inter-war education of the major operational commanders translated into their decision processes, and the extent to which their interaction during their educational experiences transformed them from risk-adverse to risk-accepting in their operational concepts. His book will interest students of the Pacific War, naval aviation, education, and leadership.

Author : Richard Humble
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Aircraft carriers
ISBN : 0863137423

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World War II Aircraft Carrier by Richard Humble Pdf

A detailed description of the carriers used in World War II including their design, operation and what it was like to live and fight aboard them.