Famous Fighters Of The Fleet
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Famous Fighters Of The Fleet
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Author : Edward Fraser
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1907
Famous Fighters Of The Fleet written by Edward Fraser and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1907 with Great Britain categories.
Fighters Over The Fleet
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Author : Norman Friedman
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2016-10-30
Fighters Over The Fleet written by Norman Friedman and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-30 with History categories.
A tactical and technical history of the development of British, American, and Japanese naval air defense from the 1920s to the 1980s. This is an account of the evolution of naval fighters for fleet air defense and the parallel evolution of the ships operating and controlling them, concentrating on the three main exponents of carrier warfare: the British Royal Navy, the U.S. Navy, and the Imperial Japanese Navy. It describes the earliest efforts from the 1920s, but it was not until radar allowed the direction of fighters that organized air defense became possible. Thus, major naval-air battles of the Second World War like Midway, the Pedestal convoy, the Philippine Sea, and Okinawa are portrayed as tests of the new technology. This was ultimately found wanting by the Kamikaze campaigns, leading to postwar moves towards computer control and new kinds of fighters. After 1945 the threats of nuclear weapons and standoff missiles compounded the difficulties of naval air defense. The second half of the book covers R.N. and U.S.N. attempts to solve these problems, looking at the American experience in Vietnam and British operations in the Falklands War. It concludes with the ultimate U.S. development of techniques and technology to fight the Outer Air Battle in the 1980s, which in turn point to the current state of carrier fighters and the supporting technology. Based largely on documentary sources, some previously unused, this book will appeal to both the naval and aviation communities. “Fighters Over the Fleet provides more information about fleet air defense than any other work currently available. It is recommended for specialist as well aviation-minded readers.” —Naval Historical Foundation
Famous Sea Fighters
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Author : Charles Lee Lewis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1930
Famous Sea Fighters written by Charles Lee Lewis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1930 with Naval biography categories.
Famous Old World Sea Fighters
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Author : Charles Lee Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Ayer Company Pub
Release Date : 1929
Famous Old World Sea Fighters written by Charles Lee Lewis and has been published by Ayer Company Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1929 with History categories.
Fighters Of The Fleet Air Arm 1939 1945
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Author : Jerry Langton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-09-11
Fighters Of The Fleet Air Arm 1939 1945 written by Jerry Langton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-11 with categories.
Bestselling author Jerry Langton takes a critical and detailed look at the fighter aircraft used by the Royal Navy in the Second World War. Focusing on each aircraft's combat history, Fighters of the Fleet Air Arm 1939-1945 is an informative and entertaining read about a part of history that is too often overlooked.
The Enemy At Trafalgar
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Author : Edward Fraser
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2011-07-27
The Enemy At Trafalgar written by Edward Fraser and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-27 with History categories.
Of the many facets of the Napoleonic wars there are a vast number of books written in English on the climatic battle of the age of sail, perhaps only eclipsed by the wealth of material written on the Waterloo Campaign of 1815 as a single subject. However there is not a great deal written as to what went on on “the other side of the hill” or “the other side of the horizon”, amongst the French and Spanish commanders who faced Nelson and his band of brothers. Edward Fraser’s book goes a long way to redress that balance, and focuses on the many brave men that fought for the Napoleonic cause, some more willingly than others; men such as Don Miguel-Ricardo Alava, a Spanish nobleman who would have the rare distinction of being on the Anglo-Allied side at Waterloo and on the opposition side at Trafalgar. Edward Fraser was a prominent historian of the period having written a number of books on the great battle of Trafalgar and Wellington’s soldiers in the Peninsula. This work was written just before the outbreak of the First World War, with the Entente Cordiale in place, and is therefore more balanced than some of the earlier English works on the period which tended to a more anti-French view. A fine, detailed and very thoroughly researched account of what the enemy experienced during the battle of Trafalgar. Illustrations – 60 – all incuded
Mitsubishi Zero
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Author : Peter C. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2014-11-30
Mitsubishi Zero written by Peter C. Smith and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-30 with History categories.
A history of the Japanese aircraft, “illustrated by well reproduced black and white photographs” details the plane’s impressive WWII aviation record. (Aviation News) The Mitsubishi Zero is one of the greatest fighter aircraft ever to have graced the skies. Symbolic of the might of Imperial Japan, she represented a peak of developmental prowess in the field of aviation during the early years of the Second World War. Engineered with maneuverability in mind, this lightweight, stripped-back aircraft had a performance that left her opponents totally outclassed. The dogfights this aircraft engaged in with the Chinese, British, Dutch and American warplanes in the 1941-42 period are the stuff of aviation legend. The Zero remained a potent threat until the end of the war, not least in her final role, that of a Kamikaze plane, in which she created as much havoc on the sea as she had done earlier in the air. Peter C. Smith takes the reader on a journey from inspired inception to the blazing termination of this unique aircraft, the first Naval fighter to be superior to land-based aircraft. Mitsubishi Zero describes in detail the many victories that punctuated the early days of the plane’s operational career as well as the final days of the Second World War which witnessed her demise. Smith also lists the preserved Zero aircraft on display today. This is a fast-paced and fascinating history of a fighter aircraft like no other.
Sea Passages
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Author : Geoffrey Callender
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-01-03
Sea Passages written by Geoffrey Callender and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-03 with History categories.
This 1943 book provides individuals in naval service with a guide to understanding and writing effective formal English. The text is comprised of a series of small sections, each of which contains a piece of writing by a prominent author relating to life at sea, tasks relating to the piece and explanatory notes.
The British Pacific Fleet
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Author : David Hobbs
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2012-03-07
The British Pacific Fleet written by David Hobbs and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-07 with History categories.
“Magnificent and important . . . should be on the shelves of anyone with a genuine interest in the history of the Royal Navy in the Second World War.” —Military History Monthly In August 1944 the British Pacific Fleet did not exist. Six months later it was strong enough to launch air attacks on Japanese territory, and by the end of the war it constituted the most powerful force in the history of the Royal Navy, fighting as professional equals alongside the US Navy in the thick of the action. How this was achieved by a nation nearing exhaustion after five years of conflict is a story of epic proportions in which ingenuity, diplomacy and dogged persistence all played a part. As much a political as a technical triumph, the BPF was uniquely complex in its make-up: its C-in-C was responsible to the Admiralty for the general direction of his Fleet; took operational orders from the American Admiral Nimitz; answered to the Government of Australia for the construction and maintenance of a vast base infrastructure, and to other Commonwealth Governments for the ships and men that formed his fully-integrated multi-national fleet. This ground-breaking new work by David Hobbs describes the background, creation and expansion of the BPF from its first tentative strikes, through operations off the coast of Japan to its impact on the immediate post-war period, including the opinions of USN liaison officers attached to the British flagships. The book is the first to demonstrate the real scope and scale of the BPF’s impressive achievement. “Perhaps the greatest Royal Navy story of, at least, the twentieth century.” —Aircrew Book Review
Donald Featherstone S Naval War Games Wargaming With Model Ships
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Author : John Curry
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2009-03-05
Donald Featherstone S Naval War Games Wargaming With Model Ships written by John Curry and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-05 with History categories.
This book gives potential admirals advice on how to fight their table-top naval battles. No space is too small, nor area too large to accomodate a naval wargame with two contestants or twenty. This book contains rules that allow every sea battle in history to be refought with some of the classic rules of naval wargaming. It includes rules by Fletcher Pratt, Fred Jane, Tony Bath, Jack Scruby etc... This edition includes a new set of rules about Coastal Warfare 1939-45 by David Manley of the Naval Wargames Society