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One Hundred Years of US Navy Air Power by Douglas V Smith w/Dust Jacket
One Hundred Years of US Navy Air Power by Douglas V Smith
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket
373 pages
Copyright 2010
CONTENTS
List of Illustrationsix
Foreword by George H. W. Bushxi
Acknowledgmentsxiii
Chapter 1. Introduction Douglas V. Smith 1
Chapter 2. The Experimental Era: U.S. Navy Aviation before 1916 Stephen K. Stein 5
Chapter 3. Eyes of the Fleet: How Flying Boats Transformed War Plan OrangeEdward S. Miller 31
Chapter 4. Ships in the Sky John E. Jackson 43
Chapter 5. Big Guns versus Wooden Decks: Naval Aviation Officer Personnel, 1911-1941 Donald Chisholm 52
Chapter 6. Admiral Joseph Mason "Bull" Reeves,Father of Navy Carrier Aviation Douglas V. Smith 79
Chapter 7. Aviation in the Interwar Fleet Maneuvers, 1919-1940 Albert A. Nofi 94
Chapter 8. The Two-Ocean Navy Act of 1940: The Impact on American Preparedness for World War II Timothy H. Jackson and Stanley D. M Carpenter 131
Chapter 9. U.S. Aircraft Carrier Evolution, 1911-1945 Norman Friedman 153
Chapter 10. Foundation for Victory: U.S. Navy Aircraft Development, 1922-1945 Hill Goodspeed 199
Chapter 11. Straight Up: Vertical Flight in the U.S. NavyKevin J. Delamer 220
Chapter 12. The Transition to Swept-Wing Jets Robert C. Rubel 240
Chapter 13. Naval Aviation in the Korean and Vietnam Wars Gary J. Ohls 269
Chapter 14. By Land and Sea: Non-Carrier Naval Aviation Sterling Michael Pavelec 301
Chapter 15. U.S. Aircraft Carrier Evolution: 1945-2011Norman Friedman 322
Chapter 16. Conclusions Douglas V Smith 350
Contributors355
Index361
ILLUSTRATIONS
F-18 Super Hornet.1
Eugene B. Ely flies his Curtiss pusher airplane from USS Birmingham (CV-2), 14 November 1910. The USS Roe, serving as plane guard, is visible in the background. 7
Lieutenant John Towers was convinced of the importance of an aviation program in spite of the skepticism of senior officers. 14
The Consolidated PBY or Catalina had a 1,000-mile range. By 1941, the U.S. Navy had 330 in service. 34
The Honorable Frank Knox, Secretary of the Navy (right),with Rear Admiral C. C. Bloch, Naval Air Station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, September 1940. 36
The U.S. Navy's largest non-rigid airships, the ZPG-3W class, flew until 1962.47
ZPG-2s in hangar.49
Early naval aviators pose at the Naval Aeronautic Station, Pensacola, Florida, spring 1914. 55
Naval Reserve Freshmen, class of 1930, University of California.62
Admiral Joseph Mason "Bull" Reeves.79
DT-2 taking off from USS Langley, circa 1925.84
USS Langley in Pearl Harbor in 1928.96
The USS Lexington with Martin bombers on deck.102
Left to right: Representative Carl Vinson (D-GA); Secretary of Navy Francis P. Matthews; Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, Chief of Naval Operations; and Admiral Arthur W. Radford, Commander, Pacific Fleet, 6 October 1949. 132
USS Essex (CV-9), circa 1945.145
The USS Saratoga (CV-3), recovering her aircraft, June 1935.161
The USS Midway in a gale off Sicily, February 1949. Photograph taken from the Essex-dass carrier Philippine Sea. 181
The first successful torpedo plane design was Douglas Aircraft Company's DT.202
U.S. Navy Curtiss SB2C Helldiver returns from a strike on Japanese shipping.213
The pontoon-equipped XR-4 flights from the USS Bunker Hill inMay 1943 marked the birth of naval rotary-wing aviation. 221
SH-3A (HSS-2) flown publicly for first time, 24 March 1959.231
McDonnell FH-1 Phantom.248
A-6 Intruder on the USS Independence's catapult, March 1965.266
U.S. Navy Fighters F4U Corsairs return to carrier USS Boxer (CV-21) after a strike over Korea, September 1951. 272
U.S. Navy F-4B Phantom II from the USS Ranger, February 1968.285
P-3 Orion conducting ship surveillance in mid-Pacific, September 1974.308
Consolidated B-24 Liberator designated by the U.S. Navy as the PB4Y-1.316
Official 1948 sketch of the supercarrier United States, which was designed to carry heavy bombers. 325
USS Abraham Lincoln, typical of modern U.S. nuclear carriers, October 1994.336
Nimitz-dass aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) with guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville (CG 62). 350
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
published to coincide with the centennial celebration of U.S. naval aviation, this book details the history of U.S. Navy aviation from its earliest days, before the Navy's first aircraft carrier joined the fleet, through the modern jet era marked by the introduction of the F-18 Hornet. It tells how naval aviation got its start, profiles its pioneers, and explains the early bureaucracy that fostered and sometimes inhibited its growth. The book then turns to the refinement of carrier aviation doctrine and tactics and the rapid development of aircraft and carriers, highlighting the transition from propeller-driven aircraft to swept-wing jets in the period after World War II. Land-based Navy aircraft, rotary-wing aircraft, rigid airships, and balloons are also considered in this sweeping tribute.
Contributors:
Stanley D. M. Carpenter
Donald Chisholm
Cdr. Kevin J. Delamer, USN
Norman Friedman
Hill Goodspeed
Capt. John Edward Jackson, USN (Ret.)
Timothy H. Jackson
Edward S. Miller
Albeil A. Nofi
Gary J. Ohls
Mike Pavelec
Capt. Robert C. Rubel, USN (Ret.)
Stephen K. Stein
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