British naval aviation
Subtitle: the first 100 years
By: Tim Benbow
Series: Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies series
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Co.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Burlington, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781409406129; 9781409430377
Subjects: Aviation; Great Britain. Royal Navy; Great Britain; Great Britain. Royal Navy. Fleet Air Arm; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Seamen or airmen?: the early days of British naval flying / Eric Grove; title: Air Force, Fleet Air Arm; title: or Armoured Corps?: the Royal Naval Air Service at war / Eric Grove; title: Competing visions: the Admiralty, the Air Ministry and the role of airpower / Geoffrey Till; title: The Fleet Air Arm and the struggle for the Mediterranean, 1940-1944 / Ben Jones; title: New tricks for old sea dogs: British naval aviation in the Pacific, 1944-1945 / Jon Robb-Webb; title: British naval aviation and the Radical Review, 1953-1955 / Tim Benbow; title: Limited war and crisis management: naval aviation in action from the Korean War to the Falklands Conflict / Ian Speller; title: The battle for CVA01 / Edward Hampshire; title: "More than just spare airfields": defence policy, defence reviews and the Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers / Lee Willett.