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Aboard The Kenneth Whiting

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1945

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Kenneth Whiting

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Author : Felix Haynes
language : en
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Release Date : 2023-08-10

Kenneth Whiting written by Felix Haynes and has been published by Page Publishing Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

BLURB Kenneth Whiting was well-known in the Navy of his day. During his early years after graduating from the Naval Academy, he commanded several early submarines and was known as the first man to escape from a downed submarine. After being trained to fly by Orville Wright, he was the first naval officer to conceptualize a ship that was to become the most important in the US Navy--the aircraft carrier. After submitting his first three unsuccessful proposals to build such a ship, his creativity and aggressiveness were recognized at the start of World War I when he was asked to lead the Navy's First Aeronautical Detachment to France. The FAD was the first American unit to travel to Europe, and within a few months, he negotiated a plan with the French Navy for a system to build naval air stations and train his men in anti-submarine warfare from the air. When the US Navy Department approved the plan, he was transferred to the command of NAS Killingholme on England's North Sea Coast. He built Killingholme into the largest naval air station in Britain. Returning to the US at the end of the war, he found the Navy Department much more willing to talk about building aircraft carriers. Upon the approval of this new ship type, he was placed in charge of converting or building the first six. Along the way, he developed the new systems for the operation of launching and landing aircraft on the new flat flight decks. For his developmental work with the first six carriers and commanding two of them, he is frequently called the Father of the Aircraft Carrier in books and publications about the ship, which was to take the place of the battleship as the king of the seas. Along the way, naval aviation took advantage of his ability to effectively and smoothly advocate for many of the then-fledgling naval aviation's important goals in the public arena. Because he had publicly spearheaded much of those goals, the battleship admirals who ran the Navy of that era were able to take revenge on him and prevent him from being promoted to admiral rank. His tragic death in the middle of World War II became part of the reason his name has been largely forgotten outside the Navy, but naval aviators know him because the field where they are all trained, Whiting Field NAS in Pensacola, is named for him. The military exploits of this American sailor are worth recounting, but the victories of Whiting and his family racing yachts on Long Island Sound make him even more interesting. The goal of this first biography of Kenneth Whiting is to enable those who empower one of today's most important functions--naval aviation--and the Americans who have benefitted from Whiting's work, to remember this hero of naval aviation and submarines.

U S S Kenneth Whiting Av 14

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Author : Kenneth Whiting (Seaplane tender : AV-14)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1955*

U S S Kenneth Whiting Av 14 written by Kenneth Whiting (Seaplane tender : AV-14) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1955* with categories.

Captain Kenneth Whiting United States Navy Deceased

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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965

Captain Kenneth Whiting United States Navy Deceased written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Air pilots, Military categories.

Old Sailor S Sea Stories

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Author : Robert W. Bruce
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2002-11

Old Sailor S Sea Stories written by Robert W. Bruce and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

During thirty years of service in The United States Navy, Captain Bill Bruce had occasion to hear many, many stories from U.S. sailors, both officers and enlisted men. His favorite times were experienced while standing at duty stations, a place where a person is assigned to man during emergency periods. For Captain Bruce this was at his Battle Dressing Station. Captain Bruce’s duties carried him from Newport, R.I. to Annapolis to Washington, D.C, the latter being where he served President Kennedy and VP Lyndon Johnson. Most of his time was spent with the Pacific Fleet with tours aboard aircraft carriers, destroyer tenders and submarine tenders. His overseas shore duties included Japan, the Philippines and Taiwan.

America S First Aircraft Carrier

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Author : David F Winkler
language : en
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Release Date : 2024-02-15

America S First Aircraft Carrier written by David F Winkler and has been published by Naval Institute Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-15 with History categories.

America’s First Aircraft Carrier tells the remarkable story of the USS Langley. The narrative provides an in-depth discussion of the ship’s origins as the collier USS Jupiter, which was built with a “first of” propulsion system that has been adapted for use in present-day Ford-class carriers. Author David F. Winkler considers the post–World War I debate for procuring carriers, the decision to convert Jupiter, and the identification of constructor Clayton Simmers as the father of the American aircraft carrier. The evolution of the Langley as an experimental ship was tied to the introduction of new doctrine for the United States. Promoting an independent naval air arm against Brig. Gen. Billy Mitchell’s vision of an independent air force, the U.S. Navy saw Langley as an operational aircraft carrier that would change the way the Navy fought wars at sea. While the story of Langley is that of the origins of naval air combat, it is also a record of the vessel’s service in World War II until the ship’s final posting to the Asiatic Fleet, where she met her demise on February 27, 1942, off the southern coast of Java. Many of the U.S. Navy’s pioneering naval aviators are closely associated with this ship, including Kenneth Whiting, John H. Towers, Godfrey DeCourcelles Chevalier, Virgil C. Griffith, Mel Pride, Patrick N. L. Bellinger, Joseph M. Reeves, Gerald Bogan, Aubrey Fitch, Felix Stump, Ernest J. King, Warren G. Child, Dan Gallery, and Frank D. Wagner. A number of these individuals would go on to play critical roles during World War II. Langley’s story is their story. Aircraft carriers remain the centerpiece of American sea power projection. America’s First Aircraft Carrier provides the context on how CV 1, the “Covered Wagon,” and carrier development and utilization came to be.

Oversight On Issues Pertaining To Veterans Exposure To Ionizing Radiation

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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986

Oversight On Issues Pertaining To Veterans Exposure To Ionizing Radiation written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Disabled veterans categories.

Evolution Of The Sino Soviet Split

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Author : Kenneth R. Whiting
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975

Evolution Of The Sino Soviet Split written by Kenneth R. Whiting and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with China categories.

Soviet Air Power

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Author : Kenneth Whiting
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-01-29

Soviet Air Power written by Kenneth Whiting and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-29 with History categories.

This comprehensive examination of Soviet air power analyzes the three branches of the USSR Military Air Forces & Frontal Aviation, Long-Range Aviation, and Military Air Transport and Naval Aviation and the National Air Defense, emphasizing World War II and postwar developments.

Story Of The Naval Air Training Center Pensacola Florida

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Author : United States. Naval Air Training Center (Pensacola, Fla.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1944

Story Of The Naval Air Training Center Pensacola Florida written by United States. Naval Air Training Center (Pensacola, Fla.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1944 with categories.