U.S. AIRCRAFT CARRIERS: AN ILLUSTRATED DESIGN HISTORY
Written by Norman Friedman
Published by Arms & Armour Press
in 1983
ISBN: 0853685762
- Categorised in:
- MILITARY
- NAVY
- MARITIME
- USA
- AIRCRAFT CARRIER
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Front cover
Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Key to Line Drawings
- Introduction
- 1 The Role of the Carrier in the US Navy
- 2 Beginnings: The Langley, Lexington and Saratoga
- 3 Carrier Spectrum Studies and the USS Ranger, 1922-29
- 4 The Yorktown Class
- 5 The Return to Smaller Dimensions, 1934-1939
- 6 The Orange War Mobilization Carriers
- 7 The Essex Class
- 8 Austere Carriers for War Production
- 9 The Midway Class
- 10 The New Fleet Carrier of 1945
- 11 The Super-Carrier United States
- 12 The Forrestal Class and Its Successors
- 13 Carrier Modernization
- 14 Nuclear Carriers
- 15 Return to the Small Carrier: CVV, 1972-78
- 16 Postwar ASW Carriers
- 17 The Amphibious-Assault Carriers
- Appendices
- A Out of the Mainstream
- B Catapults
- C Arresting Gear
- D Magazine Loads
- E Carrier Characteristics
- F Vital Statistics of Carrier Types
- Notes on Sources
- Index