Aircraft Carrier Story 1908-1945; Author: Robbins, Guy; Hardback; Book

Author: Robbins, Guy
Hardback; Book; B&w Plates
320 pages
Published: September 2001
Orion Publishing Co
ISBN: 0304353086
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Operating from seaborne bases and able to function in most weather, aircraft carriers enabled planes to attack with a freedom that changed the conduct of battle at sea forever. A valuable history recounts their rough beginnings in the First World War; the developments made by Britain, the US, and Japan in technology and strategy; and how carriers supplanted traditional capital ships as the core of naval warfare. Includes superb photographs and reports of their wartime engagements-successful and not.The full developmental and operational history of the aircraft carrier to the end of the Second World War. This book offers a valuable account of the most significant weapons platform to have emerged in the mid-20th century. The author examines Royal Navy, American, and Japanese progress in career development and strategy through the interwar years.