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100 years of British naval aviation / Christopher Shores ; foreword by Rear Admiral Simon Charlier.
- Title
- 100 years of British naval aviation / Christopher Shores ; foreword by Rear Admiral Simon Charlier.
- Author
- Shores, Christopher F.
- Publication
- Sparkford : Haynes, 2009.
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- Additional Authors
- Great Britain. Royal Navy
- Description
- 311 p. : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.
- Alternative Title
- One hundred years of British naval aviation
- Subject
- Great Britain. Royal Navy > History
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Published in association with the Royal Navy.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Birth of naval aviation -- Naval air power in the Great War -- Air defence of Great Britain -- War in the Middle East -- North East air operations -- Over the Western Front -- Smuts Report -- Royal Air Force takes over -- Fleet Air Arm of the RAF -- Second World War -- the opening shots -- First blood in the Skua -- Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain -- Force 'H' and the Mediterranean fleet -- Battle of the Atlantic -- Fighting a fearless foe -- Operations 'Pedestal' and 'Torch' -- Operations in the Med and the Far East -- Gaining the upper hand in Atlantic waters -- War of attrition in the Far East -- Aircraft for the fleet -- An afterthought -- Peace dawns but storm clouds gather -- War in Korea -- Coming of the jets -- New carriers -- Operation 'Musketeer' and the Suez debacle -- After Suez ; the world's policeman -- Amazing Harrier -- Operation 'Corporate' and the Falklands War -- New world order : new enemies, new dangers.
- ISBN
- 9781844256617 (hbk.)
- 1844256618 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2008943647
- OCLC
- 317253855
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library