Yorktown Class Aircraft Carriers

Author: Roger Chesneau
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473831644
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
This fully illustrated guide offers historical context and step-by-step instruction for building and modifying US aircraft carrier models. This volume in the ShipCraft series covers the Yorktown class of American aircraft carriers. These legendary ships kept the Japanese at bay through World War II, in the dark days between Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Midway, where the USS Yorktown herself was lost. The USS Hornet launched the famous Doolittle Raid on Japan before being sunk at Santa Cruz in October 1942, but the USS Enterprise survived the fierce fighting of the early war years to become the US Navy's most decorated ship. This lavishly illustrated guide takes readers through a brief history of the development and careers of the Yorktown class. With its unparalleled level of visual information—including paint schemes, line drawings and photographs—it is simply the best reference for any modelmaker setting out to build one of these famous carriers.

Aircraft Carriers of the United States Navy

Author: Michael Green
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 147385444X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281

Book Description
This pictorial history of US aircraft carriers illustrates the many classes and types of carriers used by the navy from before WWII to the present day. In 1922 the US Navy commissioned its first small experimental aircraft carrier. This was followed into service by two much larger carriers in 1927 with five more being built— including three large Yorktown class—prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Then, to take the offensive against the Japanese Navy, the American Congress funded by far the largest carrier-building program in history. Since 1975, when the first of a fleet of ten nuclear-powered Nimitz class carriers was commissioned, The United States Navy’s fleet of carriers has optimized its superpower status and worldwide power projection. Yet these are due to be replaced in the decades to come with the even more sophisticated nuclear-powered Gerald R. Ford class. Compiled and written by Michael Green, Aircraft Carriers of the United States Navy contains superb images of all the different types of classes of carriers employed by the US Navy since 1922. These and its highly informative text and captions give the reader a broad overview of this fascinating subject.

Yorktown-class Aircraft Carriers

Author: Robert Cecil Stern
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780897475433
Category : Aircraft carriers
Languages : en
Pages : 51

Book Description

Essex Class Aircraft Carriers of the Second World War

Author: Steve Backer
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1848320183
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
The latest volume covers the hugely important American carrier of the Second World War. Built in larger numbers than any fleet carrier before or since, the Essex class can claim to be the US Navy's most significant weapon in the defeat of Japan. Carrying up to 100 aircraft and capable of absorbing enormous punishment (not one was sunk), they spearheaded the Fast Carrier Task Forces for most of the Pacific War.??The heavily illustrated work contains everything a modeller needs to know about this prolific class.

Aircraft Carriers

Author: Michael Green
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780736888646
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description
Provides an introduction to aircraft carriers, the ships known as "floating airports," from their inception in the early twentieth century, through their development during World War II, to the various classes of carriers in use today.

Evolution of Aircraft Carriers

Author: Scot MacDonald
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aircraft carriers
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description

US Navy Aircraft Carriers 1922–45

Author: Mark Stille
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1780968094
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
The USS Langley, the first American aircraft carrier, entered service in 1922. Despite being converted into an aircraft tender, it was the first step in a new direction for the US Navy and naval warfare. This book covers the design, development and operation of USN aircraft carriers built prior to World War II, including their aircraft and weaponry. It also explains their various successes and losses such as the first carrier vs carrier battle at Midway; the battle of the Coral Sea; the battle of the Philippine Sea; and the Operation Torch landings.

Titans of the Seas

Author: James H. Belote
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description
Two naval historians follow carrier warfare in the Pacific through Coral Sea, Midway, Easter Solomons, Santa Cruz and the climatic Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 1944.

US Navy Aircraft Carriers 1922–45

Author: Mark Stille
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1780967500
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 92

Black Shoe Carrier Admiral

Author: John B Lundstrom
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612512208
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 667

Book Description
The revisionist work about Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, who won his battles at sea but lost the war of public opinion. A surface warrior, Fletcher led the carrier forces in the Pacific that won against all odds at Coral Sea, Midway, and the Eastern Solomon’s. Despite these successes, during the post-war Fletcher had become one of the most controversial figures in U.S. naval history and was portrayed as a timid bungler who failed to relieve Wake Island and who deliberately abandoned the Marines at Guadalcanal.