Research Catalog

Title

Carrier combat / David Wragg.

Author

Wragg, David W.

Publication

Phoenix Mill, Stroud, Gloucestershire : Sutton, 1997.

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Details

Description

viii, 291 p. : ill. (some col.); 27 cm.

Subject

• Aircraft carriers > History
• Air warfare > History
• Naval battles > History
• Military history, Modern > 20th century

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 281) and index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 281) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Making of the aircraft carrier -- War in Europe -- What "Phoney War"? -- Action off Norway -- Disarming Vichy France: Battle of Mers El-Kebir -- Operation Judgement: Attack on the Italian fleet at Taranto -- Operation Excess: Illustrious under attack -- Battle of Cape Matapan -- Sink the Bismarck -- Need to do something: raids on Petsamo and Kirkenes -- Convoy Operation Pedestal -- Attacks on Convoy PQ18 -- Japan on the offensive -- Pearl Harbor -- Rabaul -- Darwin: Australia's Pearl Harbor -- Striking to the West at Ceylon -- Taking the war to the enemy: Operation Shangri-La -- First carrier to carrier combat: Battle of the Coral Sea -- Tide turns: Battle of Midway -- Allies seize the initiative in Europe -- Operation Torch: Allied landings in North Africa -- Operation Husky: Allied landings in Sicily -- Operation Avalanche: Allied landings at Salerno -- Now sink the Tirpitz -- Operation Dragoon: Allied landings in the South of France -- Taking the war to Japan -- Americans take the initiative: Guadalcanal -- Battle of the Solomon Islands -- Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands -- US landings on the Gilbert Islands -- Great Marianas turkey shoot -- Attack on Sabang -- Battle of Formosa -- Leyte Gulf: biggest naval battle in history -- Kamikaze: divine wind of desperation -- Battle for Okinawa -- Carrier warfare in peace -- Uneasy peace -- Korean War -- Operation Musketeer: Anglo-French landings in the Suez Canal Zone.
• Naval air war over Vietnam -- Winter war: Battling for the Falklands -- War in the Gulf: Recovering Kuwait from Iraq.

ISBN

0750913975

OCLC

39328010

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library