U.S. Aircraft Carriers
Subtitle: An Illustrated Design History
By: by Norman Friedman ; ship plans by A.D. Baker III.
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: April 1983
Place of publication: Annapolis, Md
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9780870217395
Subjects: Aircraft carriers -- United States
Description: viii, 427 p. : 29 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Acknowledgements; title: Key to Line Drawings; title: Introduction; label: 1
title: The Role of the Carrier in the U.S. Navy; label: 2
title: Beginnings: The Langley, Lexington, and Saratoga; label: 3
title: Carrier Spectrum Studies and the USS Ranger, 1922-29; label: 4
title: The Yorktown Class; label: 5
title: The Return to Smaller Dimensions, 1934-39; label: 6
title: The ORANGE War Mobilization Carriers; label: 7
title: The Essex Class; label: 8
title: Austere Carriers for Was Production; label: 9
title: The Midway Class; label: 10
title: The New Fleet Carrier of 1945; label: 11
title: The Super-Carrier United States; label: 12
title: The Forrestal Class and Its Successors; label: 13
title: Carrier Modernization; label: 14
title: Nuclear Carriers; label: 15
title: Return to the Small Carrier: CVV, 1972-78; label: 16
title: Postwar ASW Carriers; label: 17
title: The Amphibious-Assault Carriers; title: Appendices; label: A
title: Out of the Mainstream; label: B
title: Catapults; label: C
title: Arresting Gear; label: D
title: Magazine Loads; label: E
title: Carrier Characteristics; label: F
title: Vital Statistics of Carrier Types; title: Notes on Sources; title: Index