U.S. AIRCRAFT CARRIERS: AN ILLUSTRATED DESIGN HISTORY
Written by Norman Friedman
Published by Arms & Armour Press
in 1983
ISBN: 0853685762
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U.S. AIRCRAFT CARRIERS: AN ILLUSTRATED DESIGN HISTORY
Written by Norman Friedman.
Stock no. 1327990
1st.
1983.
Hardback.
Large format.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Large format. Blue cloth, silver title to spine. B/w photos. 427 pages. ISBN: 0853685762. The dustwrapper has been covered in clear adhesive film and stuck down to the pastedowns of the book. Dustwrapper spine is slightly sunned. Contents of book are fine.
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