Название: Aircraft Carrier: A thrilling novel of the War in the Pacific
Автор: John Winton
Издательство: Sapere Books
Год: 2022
Страниц: 386
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, azw3, epub, mobi
Размер: 10.2 MB

The Pacific Ocean, 1945. In Europe the war is almost over, but Japanese forces remain undefeated … and seemingly unbeatable. But high in the sky above the islands of Sakishima Gunto, a flight of Corsair fighters from a British aircraft carrier is fighting a grim and desperate war of attrition against the enemy. A young squadron leader of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve is waging an internal war too: he must decide whether to accept a permanent commission in the Royal Navy, or honour his promise to his father that he will return home after the war. But when his aircraft is shot down, suddenly the quest to survive is all that matters. AIRCRAFT CARRIER is an action-packed World War II military adventure thriller that brings the war in the Pacific vividly to life through the eyes of the men who fought it.

Название: Sustaining the Carrier War: The Deployment of U.S. Naval Air Power to the Pacific
Автор: Stаn Fishеr
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
Серия: Studies in Naval History and Sea Power
Год: 2023
Страниц: 315
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 16.8 MB

The ability of the United States Navy to fight and win a protracted war in the Pacific was not solely the result of technology, tactics, or leadership. Naval aviation maintenance played a major role in the U.S. victory over Japan in the second World War. The naval war against Japan did not achieve sustained success until enough aircraft technicians were available to support the high tempo of aviation operations that fast carrier task force doctrine demanded. When the United States realized war was imminent and ordered a drastic increase in the size of its aviation fleet, the Navy was forced to reconsider its earlier practices and develop new policies in maintenance, supply, and technical training. Not only did a shortage of technicians plague the Navy, but the scarcity of aviation supply and repair facilities in the Pacific soon caused panic in Washington. While the surface Navy's modernization of at-sea replenishment was beneficial, it did not solve the problems of sustaining war-time aircraft readiness levels sufficient to a winning a naval air war.

Название: How They Won the War in the Pacific: Nimitz and His Admirals
Автор: Edwin Hoyt
Издательство: Lyons Press
ISBN: 0762772859
Год: 2011
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 512
Размер: 35,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

More than 70 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, this is the classic book about the principal architects of victory in the Pacific during World War II.

Название: Voices of the Pacific: Untold Stories from the Marine Heroes of World War II
Автор: Adam Makos, Marcus Brotherton
Издательство: Dutton Caliber
ISBN: 0425257827
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 413
Размер: 9,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Following fifteen Marines from the Pearl Harbor attack, through battles with the Japanese, to their return home after V-J Day, Adam Makos and Marcus Brotherton have compiled an oral history of the Pacific War in the words of the men who fought on the front lines. With unflinching honesty, these Marines reveal harrowing accounts of combat with an implacable enemy, the friendships and camaraderie they found—and lost—and the aftermath of the war’s impact on their lives.

Автор: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver (Author)
Название: I Will Run Wild: The Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 1472841336
Язык: Английский
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 9,2 МБ
Кол-во страниц: 320

This is a vivid narrative history of the early stages of the Pacific War, as US and Allied forces desperately tried to slow the Japanese onslaught that began with the sudden attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941.

Название: The Turbomotive Stanier's Advanced Pacific
Автор: Tim Hillier-Graves
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1473885744
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 224
Размер: 81,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Turbomotive was unique in Britain's railway history, and an experimental engine that proved successful but came too late to effect the direction of steam development or deflect the onset of diesel and electric locomotives. It was the brainchild of two of the most influential engineers of the twentieth century – William Stanier of the LMS and Henry Guy of Metropolitan Vickers.