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The fast carriers : the forging of an air navy / by Clark G. Reynolds.
LIBRA V874.3 .R4 1992
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reynolds, Clark G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aircraft carriers--United States--History.
- Aircraft carriers.
- United States. Navy. Fast Carrier Task Force.
- United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 503 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, 1992.
- Summary:
- Based on official records, personal interviews, private diaries, and an impressive array of published works, this classic study offers a complete record of the heated debates that took place over the concept of the fast carrier and the U.S. Navy's metamorphosis from a battleship-oriented to a carrier-centered fleet during World War II. The battle of the air admirals, such as Mitscher, Towers, Radford, and the Shermans, to gain control of the fleet from the battleship admirals, in the midst of war, is nowhere told more fully or with such an insider's grasp of personalities involved with the changing naval strategy. Clark G. Reynolds's thorough analysis of fast carrier operations takes the reader from the war rooms in Washington to the flight decks in the Pacific with ease and excitement. It is his willingness to pass critical judgment on personalities and events, and his ability to communicate clearly the bureaucratic squabbles and the fight against the foreign enemy, that puts this book far above any other work in its field. Now, twenty-four years after its first publication, The Fast Carriers remains essential reading for naval professionals and historians - evidence of its strong scholarship and enduring value in the face of a naval strategy again in flux. Illustrated with more than 90 photographs and completed with a dramatis personae, extensive appendixes, chapter notes, and bibliographic essay, this reprint introduces a new generation of readers to a frank and thoughtful study of the genesis of the carrier fleet.
- Notes:
- Originally published: 1st ed. New York : McGraw-Hill, 1968. With minor changes.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-440) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1557507015
- OCLC:
- 24906505
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