One hundred years of U.S. Navy air power
By: edited by Douglas V. Smith
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Annapolis, MD
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9781591147954
Other titles: One hundred years of United States Navy air power
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The experimental era : U.S. Navy aviation before 1916; title: Eyes of the fleet : how flying boats transformed War Plan Orange; title: Ships in the sky; title: Big guns versus wooden decks : naval aviation officer personnel, 1911-1941; title: Admiral Joseph Mason "Bull" Reeves, father of navy carrier aviation; title: Aviation in the interwar fleet maneuvers, 1919-1940; title: The two-ocean Navy Act of 1940 : the impact on American preparedness for World War II; title: U.S. aircraft carrier evolution, 1911-1945; title: Foundation for victory : U.S. Navy aircraft development, 1922-1945; title: Straight up : vertical flight in the U.S. Navy; title: The transition to swept-wing jets; title: Naval aviation in the Korean and Vietnam wars; title: By land and sea : non-carrier naval aviation; title: U.S. aircraft carrier evolution : 1945-2011; title: Conclusions.