Author: United States. Navy. [Appendix.]Publisher:
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Languages : en
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Aircraft and Ships of the United States Navy ... Photographs with Descriptions
Author: United States. Navy. [Appendix.]Publisher:
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Aircraft and Ships of the United States Navy. 81 Photographs with Descriptions
Author: United States. NavyFLIGHT, CAMERA, ACTION! The History of U.S. Naval Aviation Photography and Photo-Reconnaissance
Author: Douglas E. CampbellPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 130447173X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 639
Book Description
The first U.S. Navy aerial photographs were taken in 1913 in support of fleet exercises off Guantanamo, Cuba. Following WWI, a Navy Photographic expedition went north, making the first aerial mapping photos of the Alaskan territory. WWII found Navy shuttermen in the Pacific theatre, performing pre- and post-attack reconnaissance, along with "hitting the beach" to record the war as it unfolded. Shortly after, Navy photographic units were in the Pacific to record early atomic bomb tests. The Navy's aerial photo reconnaissance mission, both at the front end with the weaponless aircrews and the output of thousands of images and photo interpretation, continued to develop through the mid-20th century. The last aerial photo plane in the Navy's inventory was retired after flying to the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum Annex at Dulles International Airport in Fairfax County, Virginia. The 74 year odyssey of Navy and Marine Corps aerial reconnaissance photography was finished.
Aircraft Carriers of the United States Navy
Author: Michael GreenPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1783376104
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
In 1922 the US Navy commissioned its first small experimental aircraft carrier. This was followed into service by two much larger and capable carriers in 1927 with five more being built prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor including three large Yorktown class.??To take the offensive against the Japanese Navy, the American Congress funded by far the largest carrier building programme in history based on the Essex class, a larger version of the pre-war Yorktown vessels. Of the twenty-six ordered, fourteen were commissioned in time to see Second World War service. These were joined by many smaller classes of carriers, including light carriers and escort carriers.?Post-war ever larger and more capable carriers were commissioned. Since 1975, when the first of a fleet of ten nuclear-powered Nimitz class carriers was commissioned, they have epitomized United States superpower status and worldwide power projection. These are due to be replaced in the decades to come with the even more sophisticated nuclear-powered Gerald R. Ford class.??Compiled and written by Michael Green, Aircraft Carriers of the United States Navy contains superb images of all the different types of classes of carriers employed by the US Navy since 1922. These and its highly informative text and captions give the reader a broad overview of this fascinating subject.
Sky Ships
Author: William F AlthoffPublisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612519016
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Originally published in 1990, Sky Ships is easily the most comprehensive history of U.S. Navy airships ever written. The Naval Institute Press is releasing this new edition— complete with two hundred new photographs—to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the book’s publication. Impressed by Germany’s commercial and military Zeppelins, the United States initiated its own airship program in 1915. Naval Air Station Lakehurst in New Jersey was homeport for several of the largest machines ever to navigate the air. The success of the commercial rigid airship peaked in 1936 with transatlantic round trips between Central Europe and the Americas by Hindenburg and by Graf Zeppelin— ending with the infamous fire in 1937. That setback, the onset of war, and the accelerated progress of heavier-than-air technology ended rigid airship development. The Navy continued to use blimps to protect Allied shipping during World War II. Following the war, the Navy persisted with efforts to integrate the airships, but the program was finally discontinued in the early 1960s.
Power in the Pacific
Author: United States. NavyPublisher:
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Category : War photography
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The United States Navy in the World War
Author: James Clayton RussellPublisher:
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Official Photographs of the United States Navy
Author: United States. NavyPublisher:
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Category : Spanish-American War, 1898
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
U.S. Navy War Photographs, Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Harbor
Author: United States. NavyPublisher:
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Category : Naval history
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Photographs of U.S. Navy Destroyers and Aircraft Carriers
Author: United States. NavyPublisher:
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Category : Aircraft carriers
Languages : en
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Photographs chiefly of World War II destroyers and aircraft carriers.