Carrier Operations in World War II.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, J. D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (988 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Havertown : Seaforth Publishing, 2009.

Summary:

Between 1939 and 1945 the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm grew from a small force into a powerful strategic weapon. British carrier-based aircraft fought throughout the world and David Brown here describes their activities in the Home, Mediterranean, Eastern and British Pacific Fleets, together with Forces created for specific operations, listing aircraft and units embarked during the various phases.He goes on to describe carrier operations in the Pacific between 1941 and 1945, the greatest maritime war in history. Both the United States and Imperial Japanese Navies watched the Royal Navy's early c

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Editor's Foreword; Introduction; Abbreviations; Volume One: The Royal Navy, September 1939 - September 1945; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: The Atlantic and Arctic; Ocean Warfare: September 1939 to March 1940; Norway - 1940; Atlantic Operations - The Home Fleet and Force H: July 1940 to May 1941; The Hunt for the Bismarck; The Home Fleet in Northern Waters: June 1941 to March 1944; The Strikes on the Tirpitz: April to August 1944; Operations in Norwegian Coastal Waters: April 1944 to May 1945

Escort Carriers with North Russian Convoys: February 1944 to May 1945The Battle of the Atlantic - The Escort Carriers' Contribution; Merchant Aircraft Carriers; Chapter 2: The Mediterranean Fleet; September 1939 to May 1941; Chapter 3: Force H and Operations in the Western Mediterranean and Aegean; June 1940 to November 1941; Mediterranean Operations; The Western Mediterranean: January to October 1942; 828 and 830 Squadrons; Amphibious Operations in the Mediterranean - November 1942 to October 1944; Operation Torch; Force H 1943 - Operation Husky; Operation Dragoon: 15 to 20 August 1944

Aegean Operations: September and October 1944Chapter 4: The Indian Ocean; September 1939 to December 1941; December 1941 to January 1943; Diego Suarez: 5 to 7 May 1942; Victorious in the South West Pacific - 1943; October 1943 to January 1945; The East Indies Fleet in 1945; Chapter 5: The British Pacific Fleet; Palembang - January 1945; Okinawa: The Sakishima Gunto, March to May 1945; Fast Carrier Operations off Japan, 17 July to 15 August 1945; Volume Two: The Pacific Navies, December 1941 - February 1943; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Pacific War to February 1943

Chapter 1: First Strike: Pearl HarborThe attack; Aftermath; Wake Island; Chapter 2: The Philippines and East Indies Campaign; Riposte - The American Carriers Attack; Marshalls strike; Gilberts strike; Rabaul threatened; Wake and Marcus; The first two-ship strike; The Tokyo raid; Ceylon - The Last Unparried Stroke; Colombo; Trincomalee; Chapter 3: The First Parries; The Battle of the Coral Sea; Day one: the strategic victory; Day two: the tactical defeat; The Sword, the Anvil, and the Hammer; The Aleutians and Midway; Strikes on the Aleutians; Midway - the approach

Midway - the carriers close inMidway - the carrier battle; Midway - countermarch and chase; Last losses; Chapter 4: 'Watchtower' - Guadalcanal; Operation Watchtower, 7-8 August 1942; The assault; The carriers withdraw; Waiting for Nagumo; The Battle of the Eastern Solomons; Aftermath; Addition Ashore, Subtraction at Sea; The Battle of Santa Cruz; The preliminaries; The battle; The reckoning; The Battle of Guadalcanal; Victory on Guadalcanal; Volume Three: The Pacific Navies, February 1943 - September 1945; Introduction: The Pacific War after 1943

Chapter 1: The Coming of the Fast Carrier Task Forces

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ISBN:

9781783464647

178346464X

9781783469307

1783469307

OCLC:

881415989