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Author : R. D. Layman
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015038531839
All aspects of naval aviation in World War I are detailed in this superbly researched book.
Author : Adrian O. Van Wyen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Naval aviation
ISBN : UOM:39015007656609
Author : John Abbatiello
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135989545
Investigating the employment of British aircraft against German submarines during the final years of the First World War, this new book places anti-submarine campaigns from the air in the wider history of the First World War. The Royal Naval Air Service invested heavily in aircraft of all types—aeroplanes, seaplanes, airships, and kite balloons—in order to counter the German U-boats. Under the Royal Air Force, the air campaign against U-boats continued uninterrupted. Aircraft bombed German U-boat bases in Flanders, conducted area and ‘hunting’ patrols around the coasts of Britain, and escorted merchant convoys to safety. Despite the fact that aircraft acting alone destroyed only one U-boat during the war, the overall contribution of naval aviation to foiling U-boat attacks was significant. Only five merchant vessels succumbed to submarine attack when convoyed by a combined air and surface escort during World War I. This book examines aircraft and weapons technology, aircrew training, and the aircraft production issues that shaped this campaign. Then, a close examination of anti-submarine operations—bombing, patrols, and escort—yields a significantly different judgment from existing interpretations of these operations. This study is the first to take an objective look at the writing and publication of the naval and air official histories as they told the story of naval aviation during the Great War. The author also examines the German view of aircraft effectiveness, through German actions, prisoner interrogations, official histories, and memoirs, to provide a comparative judgment. The conclusion closes with a brief narrative of post-war air anti-submarine developments and a summary of findings. Overall, the author concludes that despite the challenges of organization, training, and production the employment of aircraft against U-boats was largely successful during the Great War. This book will be of interest to historians of naval and air power history, as well as students of World War I and military history in general.
Author : Adrian O. Van Wyen,Naval Aviation News
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 1410223426
When the call to battle sounded in April 1917, the Navy air arm could muster at its one air station only 48 officers and 239 enlisted men with some experience in aviation, and 54 aircraft none of which was fit for patrol service. The problems of building this small force to a effective fighting unit were enormous. Yet, the Armistice was signed 19 months later, there were 43 air stations in operation at home and abroad, an aircraft factory in production, and numerous schools, assembly plants, repair depots and other facilities providing the needed logistic support. Aviation personnel numbered over 39000, a figure nearly equal to the total in the entire Navy at the start of the war. Little has been published on the nature and extent of Naval air operations in the first World War until, in April 1967, Naval Aviation News began a series of monthly articles under the general title, "Naval Aviation in World War I." Using chronologies of significant events and narrative accounts of special phases of the war, this series told the story of how Naval Aviation met the challenge. The series was conceived by and completed under the direction of the Assistant for Aviation History, Mr. A. O. Van Wyen, who also wrote many of the articles and arranged for the writing of others. While not a definitive history, it is the first published word to deal specifically with the accomplishments of Naval Aviation in the first World War. Based on official sources as well as the recollections of participants, it is authoritatively presented through an interesting combination of official and personal accounts. It is also the history of a beginning made under stress of war---a beginning in which the men of Naval Aviation demonstrated the potential of aviation as an arm of sea power and set the course for its future growth. The success with which they carried out their task is in large measure responsible for the position of aviation at the forefront of Naval power today. T. F. Connoly Vice Admiral, USN Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air)
Author : Philip Kaplan
Publisher : Images of War
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 1781593698
A new and exciting addition to the well-regarded Images of War series. Features a library of intriguing photographs that illustrate the conflict, paired with text from the author setting the images in context.
Author : Geoffrey L. Rossano
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813072265
"An exceptional piece of scholarship. Rossano clearly points out that military organizations in general, and a naval air force in particular, are built from the ground up and not the other way around. While we celebrate the exploits of the pilots, Rossano reminds us that there were myriad mechanics, constructors, paymasters, and even some ship drivers who played a vital role in naval aviation during WWI."--Craig C. Felker, U.S. Naval Academy "A fine book that will stand for many years as the definitive study of U.S. naval aviation in Europe. Well-researched and written, the book ranges widely, from the high-level planning in Washington for a naval air war to moving thousands of men and hundreds of aircraft across the ocean to the routine but dangerous training, patrol, and bombing flights that constituted the navy’s air mission in World War I."--William F. Trimble, author of Attack from the Sea Stalking the U-Boatis the first and only comprehensive study of U.S. naval aviation operations in Europe during WWI. The navy's experiences in this conflict laid the foundations for the later emergence of aviation as a crucial--sometimes dominant--element of fleet operations, yet those origins have been previously poorly understood and documented. Begun as antisubmarine operations, naval aviation posed enormous logistical, administrative, personnel, and operational problems. How the USN developed this capability--on foreign soil in the midst of desperate conflict--makes a fascinating tale sure to appeal to all military and naval historians.
Author : Edwin Palmer Hoyt
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038548371
Author : Gerald Astor
Publisher : Random House
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0891418539
The distinguished military historian and author of The Greatest War integrates compelling eyewitness accounts into a dramatic study of the air combat missions that led to American victory in the Pacific theater of Warld War II.
Author : United States. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations,A. O. Van Wyen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:150475992
Author : Geoffrey L Rossano,Thomas Wildenberg
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612513911
Striking the Hornets’ Nest provides the first extensive analysis of the Northern Bombing Group (NBG), the Navy’s most innovative aviation initiative of World War I and one of the world’s first dedicated strategic bombing programs. Very little has been written about the Navy’s aviation activities in World War I and even less on the NBG. Standard studies of strategic bombing tend to focus on developments in the Royal Air Force or the U.S. Army Air Service. This work concentrates on the origins of strategic bombing in World War I, and the influence this phenomenon had on the Navy’s future use of the airplane. The NBG program faced enormous logistical and personnel challenges. Demands for aircraft, facilities, and personnel were daunting, and shipping shortages added to the seemingly endless delays in implementing the program. Despite the impediments, the Navy (and Marine Corps) triumphed over organizational hurdles and established a series of bases and depots in northern France and southern England in the late summer and early fall of 1918. Ironically, by the time the Navy was ready to commence bombing missions, the German retreat had caused abandonment of the submarine bases the NBG had been created to attack. The men involved in this program were pioneers, overcoming major obstacles only to find they were no longer needed. Though the Navy rapidly abandoned its use of strategic bombing after World War I, their brief experimentation directed the future use of aircraft in other branches of the armed forces. It is no coincidence that Robert Lovett, the young Navy reserve officer who developed much of the NBG program in 1918, spent the entire period of World War II as Assistant Secretary of War for Air where he played a crucial role organizing and equipping the strategic bombing campaign unleashed against Germany and Japan. Rossano and Wildenberg have provided a definitive study of the NBG, a subject that has been overlooked for too long.
Author : Eric Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038498023
Author : Great Britain. Air Ministry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Aeronautics, Military
ISBN : UGA:32108028058694
Beskrivelse af den tyske hær- og marineflyvning i 1918, herunder flytyper, organisation, taktik m.m.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 194360469X
"Book provides snapshots from Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner's experiences between 1940 and 1945. Turner was a key figure in planning the war against Japan and also commanded most of the significant amphibious operations in the Pacific theater. Each section provides lessons learned for today's naval leaders"--
Author : United States. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations,United States. Department of the Navy. Bureau of Aeronautics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Aeronautics, Military
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211329193
Author : Tim Benbow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317171768
In 1909 the British Admiralty placed an order for a rigid airship, marking the beginning of the Royal Navy's involvement with airpower. This collection charts the Navy's involvement with aviation over the following century, and the ways in which its rapid expansion and evolution radically altered the nature of maritime power and naval strategy. Drawing on much new historical research, the collection takes a broadly chronological approach which allows a scholarly examination of key themes from across the history of British naval aviation. The subjects tackled include long-standing controversies over the control of naval air power, crucial turning points within British defence policy and strategy, the role of naval aviation in limited war, and discussion of campaigns - such the contribution of the Fleet Air Arm in the Mediterranean and Pacific theatres of the Second World War - that have hitherto received relatively little attention. The collection concludes with a discussion of recent debates surrounding the Royal Navy's acquisition of a new generation of carriers, setting the arguments within an historical context. Taken as a whole the volume offers fascinating insights into the development of a key aspect of naval power as well as shedding new light on one of the most important aspects of Britain's defence policy and military history. By simultaneous addressing historical and current political debates, it is sure to find a ready audience and stimulate further discussion.
