Carriers in combat : the air war at sea
The aircraft carrier revolutionized warfare, allowing fleets to launch fighters and engage each other over great distances. World War II witnessed the carrier’s heyday as swarms of American Wildcats and Hellcats and Japanese Zeroes catapulted from flight decks to attack enemy ships and planes at battles like Midway and Leyte Gulf.
Print Book, English, 2007, ©2005
Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA, 2007, ©2005
xviii, 317 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
9780811733984, 081173398X
149006343
Part I: The dawn of naval air power
From dreadnoughts to flight decks
Mobilizing for war
Flattops in the Atlantic
The rising sun
Part II: Carriers at war
Fighting for time
Coal Sea: battle of errors
Midway: the turning point
Part III: Evolution of combat tactics
The Rastern Solomons
The battle for Guadalcanal
Refining carrier tactics
Island-hopping in the Pacific
The Marianas turkey shoot
Part IV: Ascent of the air admirals
The new air navy
Prelude to the Philippines
Leyte Gulf
The setting sun
Part V: Command of the seas
Korea: carriers and politics
Vietnam: President's Johnson's war
Cold wars and brush fires
The desert wars
Originally published: Westport, CT : Praeger, ©2005