U.S. Navy Attack Aircraft, 1920-2020

Author: Norman Friedman
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 9781682474174
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"This book examines previously classified documents to explain and discuss how technology and operation requirements for aircraft changed over the course of a century from the Navy's point of view"--

U.S. Navy Fighters, 1960-1990

Author: Angelo Romano
Publisher: Osprey Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781855322226
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Illustrates and describes modern Navy fighter planes in use between 1960 and 1990

US Navy Fighters

Author: J. P. Vieira
Publisher: Tempest Books
ISBN: 9781911639343
Category : Aircraft carriers
Languages : en
Pages : 129

Book Description
The United States Navy has a proud history of flying the fastest, best equipped and most powerful jet fighters in the world. This bookazine features more than 200 profiles including all 17 of the Navy's front line jet fighters, depicted by renowned artist JP Vieira.

One Hundred Years of U.S. Navy Air Power

Author: Douglas V Smith
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612514235
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394

Book Description
Published to coincide with the centennial celebration of U.S. Navy Aviation, this book chronicles Navy aviation from its earliest days, before the Navy’s first aircraft carrier joined the fleet, through the modern jet era marked by the introduction of the F-18 Hornet. It tells how naval aviation got its start, profiles its pioneers, and explains the early bureaucracy that fostered and sometimes inhibited its growth. The book then turns to the refinement of carrier aviation doctrine and tactics and the rapid development of aircraft and carriers, highlighting the transition from propeller-driven aircraft to swept wing jets in the period after WW II. Land-based Navy aircraft, rotary-wing aircraft and rigid airships, and balloons are also considered in this sweeping tribute.

U.S. Navy Fighter Squadrons in World War II

Author: Barrett Tillman
Publisher: Specialty Press (MN)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
US Navy Fighter Squadrons In World War IITillmanSubtitled: Chronologies, Deployments, Combat Records. This first-ever chronology of VF squadrons describes their history, deployments, battle highlights, commanders, aces, losses and aircraft. Appendices supply information on shoot down claims, biographies of 12 famous aces, a list of 371 naval fighter aces, aces in a day, top scoring squadrons, and more. Hdbd., 7 1/4x 1 1/2, 16 pgs., 65 bandw ill.

MiG Alley

Author: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472836065
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369

Book Description
Following the end of the Korean War, the prevailing myth in the West was that of the absolute supremacy of US Air Force pilots and aircraft over their Soviet-supplied opponents. The claims of the 10:1 victory-loss ratio achieved by the US Air Force fighter pilots flying the North American F-86 Sabre against their communist adversaries, among other such fabrications, went unchallenged until the end of the Cold War, when Soviet records of the conflict were finally opened. Packed with first-hand accounts and covering the full range of US Air Force activities over Korea, MiG Alley brings the war vividly to life and the record is finally set straight on a number of popular fabrications. Thomas McKelvey Cleaver expertly threads together US and Russian sources to reveal the complete story of this bitter struggle in the Eastern skies.

Wildcats over Casablanca

Author: M. T. Wordell
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1839741104
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
Wildcats Over Casablanca, first published in 1943, is a first-hand account by U.S. naval aviators in World War Two's 'Operation Torch' – the November 1942 British-American invasion of French North Africa and their fighting against the Vichy French. The exploits of the airmen, based on the aircraft carrier USS Ranger, and flying their trusted Grumman F4F “Wildcats” are described, as are sorties of the carrier’s bomber and scout squadrons. French battleship Jean Bart, still under construction following the French surrender to Germany, was in the Casablanca Harbor, and sunk as part of the Operation. The Operation was also significant as it was one of the first wartime engagements to use carriers in support of an amphibious landing. During the combat, co-author “Mac” Wordell, who commanded the squadron – known as the “Red Rippers” – was shot down and taken prisoner by the Vichy French, and an interesting perspective is provided of the divided French loyalties prevalent at that time.

Navy Fighters

Author: David Baker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780865923522
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description
Describes the history and design of different types of Navy fighters and their uses in combat.

U.S. Navy Fighters of WW II

Author: Barrett Tillman
Publisher: Motorbooks International
ISBN: 9780760305591
Category : Fighter planes
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Looks at the most famous Navy fighter planes used by the Allies from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay, including the Grumman planes and the Vought F4U Corsairs.

US Naval Aviation, 1898–1945

Author: Leo Marriott
Publisher: Pen and Sword Aviation
ISBN: 1526785404
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 245

Book Description
This pictorial history tells the story of US naval aviation from its early beginnings in the 1920s to its dominance in the Pacific theater of WWII. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor sank or crippled almost all of the battleships in the US Navy’s Pacific Fleet. But the fleet’s aircraft carriers survived—and soon demonstrated the power of US naval aviation. Thanks to pioneering technology and far-sighted pre-war policy, the US Navy had the necessary ships, aircraft, and crews to turn the tide of the Pacific war. With more than 200 rare photographs, Leo Marriott traces the growth of US naval aviation from the flimsy seaplanes of the first years of the twentieth century to the mighty armadas that challenged those of the Japanese and, after the carrier battles at Coral Sea and Midway, led the advance across the Pacific. Marriott puts special focus on the navy’s first aircraft carriers of the 1920s, the tremendous progress made in the decades between the wars in tactics and strategy, and the innovative design of ships and aircraft themselves.