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Download or read book Kenneth Whiting written by Felix Haynes and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-08-10 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BLURB Kenneth Whiting was well-known in the Navy of his day. During his early years after graduating from the Naval Academy, he commanded several early submarines and was known as the first man to escape from a downed submarine. After being trained to fly by Orville Wright, he was the first naval officer to conceptualize a ship that was to become the most important in the US Navy--the aircraft carrier. After submitting his first three unsuccessful proposals to build such a ship, his creativity and aggressiveness were recognized at the start of World War I when he was asked to lead the Navy's First Aeronautical Detachment to France. The FAD was the first American unit to travel to Europe, and within a few months, he negotiated a plan with the French Navy for a system to build naval air stations and train his men in anti-submarine warfare from the air. When the US Navy Department approved the plan, he was transferred to the command of NAS Killingholme on England's North Sea Coast. He built Killingholme into the largest naval air station in Britain. Returning to the US at the end of the war, he found the Navy Department much more willing to talk about building aircraft carriers. Upon the approval of this new ship type, he was placed in charge of converting or building the first six. Along the way, he developed the new systems for the operation of launching and landing aircraft on the new flat flight decks. For his developmental work with the first six carriers and commanding two of them, he is frequently called the Father of the Aircraft Carrier in books and publications about the ship, which was to take the place of the battleship as the king of the seas. Along the way, naval aviation took advantage of his ability to effectively and smoothly advocate for many of the then-fledgling naval aviation's important goals in the public arena. Because he had publicly spearheaded much of those goals, the battleship admirals who ran the Navy of that era were able to take revenge on him and prevent him from being promoted to admiral rank. His tragic death in the middle of World War II became part of the reason his name has been largely forgotten outside the Navy, but naval aviators know him because the field where they are all trained, Whiting Field NAS in Pensacola, is named for him. The military exploits of this American sailor are worth recounting, but the victories of Whiting and his family racing yachts on Long Island Sound make him even more interesting. The goal of this first biography of Kenneth Whiting is to enable those who empower one of today's most important functions--naval aviation--and the Americans who have benefitted from Whiting's work, to remember this hero of naval aviation and submarines.
Book Synopsis Aircraft by : United States. President's Aircraft Board
Download or read book Aircraft written by United States. President's Aircraft Board and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wings for the Fleet by : George van Deurs
Download or read book Wings for the Fleet written by George van Deurs and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The men who ventured into the air in the Navy’s first frail aircraft were not only daring—they had vision, persistence, and a nearly unlimited determination to convince the skeptics that their frail kite-like structures could someday possess military value. This is the story of their trials, tragedies, and triumphs. They patched cooling systems with chewing gum, they lived by “crash, repair, and fly again,” but they succeeded in developing this new service into an effective arm of the fleet. Wings for the Fleet, first published in 1966, covers the fascinating details of those pioneering days from 1910 to the entry of the United States into World War I. All of the heroic “early birds” are here with full accounts of their exploits. Admiral van Deurs, himself a naval aviator since the early 1920s, has rendered a significant service by his careful preparation of this well-balanced, thoroughly illustrated historical account, which comes complete with appendixes listing early naval aviators and the planes they flew. Over one hundred photographs were selected from official and private sources to illustrate this book.
Book Synopsis Modern Chinese Warfare, 1795-1989 by : Bruce A. Elleman
Download or read book Modern Chinese Warfare, 1795-1989 written by Bruce A. Elleman and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of Chinese warfare, both internal and international, from the opium wars of the 1840s through to the end of Vietnam.
Book Synopsis Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War by : Phil Haun
Download or read book Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War written by Phil Haun and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A theory of tactical air power explaining US air power effectiveness in Vietnam and the modern air wars that followed.
Download or read book The Rudder written by Thomas Fleming Day and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Inquiry Into Operations of the United States Air Services by : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee of Inquiry into Operations of the United States Air Services
Download or read book Inquiry Into Operations of the United States Air Services written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee of Inquiry into Operations of the United States Air Services and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis BuNos! Disposition of World War II USN, USMC and USCG Aircraft Listed by Bureau Number by : Douglas E. Campbell
Download or read book BuNos! Disposition of World War II USN, USMC and USCG Aircraft Listed by Bureau Number written by Douglas E. Campbell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A snapshot in time. After thousands of hours of research and data entry over a 35-year period, the information on the disposition of some 25,000 US Navy, US Marine Corps and US Coast Guard aircraft needs to be published. These aircraft mainly represent those built and lost during World War II - between 7 December 1941 and 15 August 1945 - but this book also contains aircraft built before WWII that were lost during WWII or disposed of after WWII (lost during the Korean War, lost on training exercises, sold to private investors, currently located in museums and even some still proudly sitting as "gate guards" across the US, etc.).
Download or read book Playing War written by John M. Lillard and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the First and Second World Wars, the U.S. Navy used the experience it had gained in battle to prepare for future wars through simulated conflicts, or war games, at the Naval War College. In Playing War John M. Lillard analyzes individual war games in detail, showing how players tested new tactics and doctrines, experimented with advanced technology, and transformed their approaches through these war games, learning lessons that would prepare them to make critical decisions in the years to come. Recent histories of the interwar period explore how the U.S. Navy digested the impact of World War I and prepared itself for World War II. However, most of these works overlook or dismiss the transformational quality of the War College war games and the central role they played in preparing the navy for war. To address that gap, Playing War details how the interwar navy projected itself into the future through simulated conflicts. Playing War recasts the reputation of the interwar War College as an agent of preparation and innovation and the war games as the instruments of that agency.
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Download or read book Air Force; the Official Service Journal of the U.S. Army Air Forces written by and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Russian Aviation and Air Power in the Twentieth Century by : John Greenwood
Download or read book Russian Aviation and Air Power in the Twentieth Century written by John Greenwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the light of new archival material the editors take a fresh look at Russian aviation in the twentieth century. Presenting a comprehensive view of Russian aviation, from its genesis in the late czarist period to the present era, the approach is essentially chronological with a major emphasis on the evolution of military aviation. The contributions are diverse, with appropriate attention to civilian and institutional themes.
Download or read book Naval Aviation News written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The First Yale Unit by : Ralph Delahaye Paine
Download or read book The First Yale Unit written by Ralph Delahaye Paine and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis United States Naval Aviation, 1910-1970 by : United States. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
Download or read book United States Naval Aviation, 1910-1970 written by United States. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Register of the Commissioned, Warrant and Volunteer Officers of the Navy of the United States, Including Officers of the Marine Corps and Others by : United States. Navy
Download or read book Register of the Commissioned, Warrant and Volunteer Officers of the Navy of the United States, Including Officers of the Marine Corps and Others written by United States. Navy and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
