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Published November 2021, 112 pages, Over 180 black & white and colour photopraphs, hardcover, 9" x 9"
- This first of two volumes covers the design, testing, development, and combat use of the early Spitfire marques
The Grumman-designed TBF Avenger was unquestionably the most successful torpedo bomber in the US fleet during WWII. Developed just prior to the US entry in WWII, the type made its combat debut at the Battle of Midway. Demand for the large carrier-borne ai
Though it barely missed being caught and destroyed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the US Navy's USS Enterprise (CV-6) aircraft carrier took part in every major action of the Pacific War, from the Doolittle Raid to the battles of Midway, Santa Cruz,
USS Hornet (CV-8), made famous through its launching of the 16 US Army B-25 Mitchell bombers flown by Jimmy Doolittle’s raiders in the first US strike on Japan in May 1942, was the third and last Yorktown-class aircraft carrier completed. Serving the US N
USS Intrepid, the "Fighting I," was one of America’s longest-serving aircraft carriers. Launched during WWII, Decommissioned after WWII, Intrepid was recommissioned in 1955 and designated as an attack carrier (CVA), and later an antisubmarine carrier.
USS Lexington (CV-16), a member of the famed Essex class of carriers that made up the backbone of the US Navy’s carrier force in WWII, served its nation from WWII into the 1990s. With almost a half-million arrested landings recorded, arguably more naval a
Published October 2022, 144 pages, 360 black & white photographs, hardcover, 9" x 9"
USS Yorktown (CV-5) was the US Navy’s first battle-worthy, purpose-built aircraft carrier. Her crew, already accustomed to wartime conditions by maintaining Neutrality Patrols during 1941 in the Atlantic, quickly adapted to the Pacific Theater,...........