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About this book
The Navy's Air War is the definitiveaccount of the critical role naval aircraft played in World War 2. Author and historian Albert Buchanan recreates the engagements of the Pacific and Atlantic combat theaters with near clinical detail, from the Pearl Harbor Attack to the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri. Interwoven with these combat narratives is background information on technological innovations, production methods, training programs, and the important players involved.
This new edition of The Navy's Air War: A Mission Completed includes annotations and photographs from World War 2.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- The Navy’s Air War: A Mission Completed
- 1 – Pearl Harbor
- 2 – Background
- 3 – Naval Air Organization
- 4 - The Neutrality Patrol
- 5 – Anti-Submarine Warfare
- 6 - Prototype of Invasion
- 7 – War on the “Wolf Pack”
- 8 – The Battle of the South Atlantic
- 9 – Naval Aviation in the Italian Invasion
- 10 – Naval Aviation in the Invasion of France
- 11 – Coast Guard Aviation
- 12 – Readiness in the Philippines
- 13 – Toward the End of Tragedy
- 14 – The Beginning of Glory
- 15 – Wings Over Guadalcanal
- 16 – The Northern Dagger
- 17 – Starting the Road Back
- 18 – The Gilberts Campaign
- 19 – The End of the Aleutian Campaign
- 20 – The Marshalls Campaign
- 21 – Conquest of the Marianas Campaign
- 22 – Operations in the Western Carolines
- 23 – From New Britain to Morotai
- 24 – Whirlwind in the Philippines
- 25 – Iwo Jima
- 26 – Okinawa
- 27 – Into the Heart of Japan
- 28 – Training Naval Aviation’s Manpower
- 29 – Production to Meet Changing War Needs
- 30 – The Expansion of Shore Establishments
- 31 – “Keep ’Em Flying!”
- 32 – Naval Air Transport Service
- 33 – Naval Air Service
- Epilogue
- Further Reading: They Call It Pacific: An Eye-Witness Story of Our War Against Japan from Bataan to the Solomons