US Navy Ships vs Japanese Attack Aircraft
1941-42
The striking power of the Imperial Japanese Navy's carrier-based attack aircraft was established at Pearl Harbor, and the IJN's carrier-based torpedo and dive-bombers showed their prowess again at the Battle of Coral Sea when they sank the US Navy carrier USS Lexington and damaged the carrier USS Yorktown. Even at the disastrous Battle of Midway, the relatively small number of IJNAF attack- and torpedo-bombers that were launched against the US fleet proved that they remained a potent force by heavily damaging Yorktown again, which allowed an IJN submarine to sink the carrier. At Guadalcanal, IJNAF carrier-based aircraft sank the carrier U…
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Weitere Autoren: Laurier, Jim (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4728-3644-1
- EAN: 9781472836441
- Produktnummer: 32892466
- Verlag: Bloomsbury
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 80 S.
- Masse: H24.5 cm x B18.4 cm x D0.4 cm 266 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 105
- Gewicht: 266
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Mark E. Stille (Commander, United States Navy, retired) received his BA in History from the University of Maryland and also holds an MA from the Naval War College. He has worked in the intelligence community for 35 years, including tours on the faculty of the Naval War College, on the Joint Staff and on US Navy ships. He is the author of numerous Osprey titles, focusing on naval history in the Pacific. He is currently a senior analyst working in the Washington DC area. Jim Laurier is a native of New England. He attended Paier School of Art in Hamden, Connecticut, from 1974-78, and since graduating with Honours, he has been working professionally in the field of Fine Art and Illustration. He has been commissioned to paint for the US Air Force and has aviation paintings on permanent display at the Pentagon. He lives in New Hampshire.
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