The Navy's Air War, A Mission Completed
By: by the Aviation History Unit, OP-519B, DCNO (air) Edited by A.R. Buchanan ... With a foreword by Admiral Marc A. Mitscher. Illustrated with official U.S. Navy photographs
Contributors: Buchanan, Albert Russell, 1906-
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Published: 1946
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American; World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American
Notes: Maps on lining-papers
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: Foreword ix; title: Why This Book Was Written xi; title: Acknowledgements xv; title: PART I; title: 1 Pearl Harbor i; title: PART II; title: INVENTORY; title: 2 Background 15; title: 3 Naval Air Organization 20; title: PART III; title: THE ATLANTIC THEATER; title: 4 It Takes Practice to Win a War — The Neutrality Patrol 27; title: 5 From Neutrality Patrol to Anti-Submarine Warfare 40; title: 6 Prototype of Invasion 49; title: 7 The Navy's Air War on the "Wolf Pack" 58; title: 8 "Good Neighbors" Win the Battle of the South Atlantic 70; title: 9 Naval Aviation in the Italian Invasion 82; title: 10 Naval Aviation in the Invasions of France 89; title: 11 Coast Guard Aviation 99; title: PART IV; title: THE PACIFIC THEATER; title: 12 Readiness in the Philippines 109; title: 13 Toward the End of Tragedy 113; title: 14 The Beginning of Glory 134; title: 15 Wings over Guadalcanal 154; title: 16 The Northern Dagger 166; title: 17 Starting the Road Back 173; title: 18 The Task Force Shows Its Strength 185; title: 19 The End of the Aleutian Campaign 191; title: 20 The Marshalls Campaign 194; title: 21 Conquest of the Marianas 201; title: 22 Operations in the Western Carolines 217; title: 23 From New Britain to Morotai 225; title: 24 Whirlwind in the Philippines 230; title: 25 Iwo Jima 270; title: 26 Okinawa 275; title: 27 Into the Heart of Japan 500; title: PART V; title: THE FORCES BEHIND THE NAVY'S AIR WAR; title: 28 Training Naval Aviation's Manpower 307; title: 29 Production to Meet Changing War Needs 330; title: 30 The Expansion of Shore Establishments 345; title: 31 "Keep 'Em Flying" 353; title: 32 Naval Air Transport Service 362; title: 33 Science Aids the Navy's Air War 371; title: EPILOGUE; title: Old Mission Completed; New Mission Assigned 386; title: Appendix A 389; title: Appendix B 391; title: ILLUSTRATIONS; title: These illustrations, grouped as a separate section, will be found following page 112; title: Atlantic; title: Convoy; title: Surfaced Sub; title: Sub Attack; title: Captured sub; title: Patrol plane, blimp; title: Pacific; title: Fleet at Manus; title: Marcus raid; title: Suicide sequence; title: Kamikaze close-ups; title: Jap Carrier; title: Naha; title: Iwo Jima landing; title: Air-ground support; title: Supplies to Iwo Jima; title: Patrol planes, Jap camouflage; title: These illustrations, grouped as a separate section, will be found following page 336; title: Pearl Harbor; title: Carriers; title: CV-CVL; title: CVE (2 types); title: Plane Types; title: F4f, F6F, F4U; title: TBF, SBD, SB2C; title: PB4Y, PB4Y-2, PV-i; title: PBJ, PB2Y, PBY; title: PBM, SOC, OS2U; title: Training; title: Aviation cadets; title: Flight base; title: Carrier, Link; title: Nats; title: Photo Interpretation; title: Gasmata airfield; title: Tarawa vertical; title: Tarawa oblique; title: Model and guns