02579cam a2200301 a 4500001001300000003000600013005001700019008004100036020001500077020001800092035002000110040002400130050001500154100002000169245003500189260005700224300005900281504006200340505144300402505012201845530002401967648002001991650003202011650002802043650004402071655003902115776012302154ocm39328010 OCoLC20241128080549.0980622s1997    enka     b    001 0 eng d  a0750913975  a9780750913973  a(OCoLC)39328010  bengcGAFCSC LIBRARY14aV874b.W921 aWragg, David W.10aCarrier combat /cDavid Wragg.  aPhoenix Mill, Stroud, Glostershire :bSutton,c1997.  aviii, 291 pages :billustrations (some color) ;c27 cm  aIncludes bibliographical references (page 281) and index.1 aMaking 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.1 aNaval air war over Vietnam -- Winter war: Battling for the Falklands -- War in the Gulf: Recovering Kuwait from Iraq.  aAlso issued online. 7a1900-19992fast 0aAircraft carriersxHistory. 0aNaval battlesxHistory. 0aMilitary history, Moderny20th century. 7aHistory.2fast0(OCoLC)fst0141162808iOnline version:aWragg, David W.tCarrier combat.dPhoenix Mill, Stroud, Glostershire : Sutton, 1997w(OCoLC)605446929