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Aircraft carriers : the illustrated history / Richard Humble.
LIBRA V874 .H84 1982
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Humble, Richard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Naval aviation.
- History.
- Aircraft carriers--History.
- Aircraft carriers.
- Naval aviation--History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Nilsson, William F., Jr. (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Herts, England : Winchmore Pub. Services, [1982]
- Summary:
- In this compelling study, Richard Humble traces the full story of the aircraft-carrier, beginning with the floatplane and deck-landing pioneers of the First World War. He examines the conversion of battleships to carriers in the 1920s nd the evolution of the carrier task force as a far more powerful successor to the traditional battle fleet--as shatteringly demonstrated at Taranto in November 1940 and at Pearl Harbor in December 1941.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Connoisseur.
- Local Notes:
- Ex Libris Nautica copy presented to the Penn Libraries by LT. CMDR. William F. Nilsson, Jr., USNR (Ret.).
- OCLC:
- 15288618
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