In this the highly illustrated second volume of his history of US naval aviation, Leo Marriott takes the�reader through the extraordinary developments in design and capability that transformed American�aircraft and aircraft carriers after the Second World War, and he describes the succession of conflicts in which they were deployed. Increasingly, advanced jets replaced propeller-driven aircraft and nuclearpowered�carriers allowed the US Navy to project American military power across the world. As the many�remarkable photographs in this book show, wherever naval aviation was involved, it played a crucial role,�especially in the wars in Korea and Vietnam.
The vessels built in the 1940s to fight in the war against Japan gave way to a new generation of super�carriers. Supersonic fighters and strike aircraft entered service - the F-8 Crusaders and F-4 Phantoms of�the Vietnam era, then the F-14 Tomcat, F/A-18 Hornet and S-3 Viking of more recent times. Carrier-based�helicopters became more important, first for search-and-rescue missions, then for anti-submarine warfare�and for landing assault forces. Throughout this period of the Cold War the US Navy's carriers and aviation�served to demonstrate American power worldwide and to counter the threat represented by the Soviet�Union's challenge to US mastery of the seas.
- ISBN13 9781399062572
- Publish Date 30 May 2023
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Air World
- Format Paperback
- Pages 192
- Language English