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  • How Carriers Fought

  • Carrier Operations in WWII
  • By: Lars Celander
  • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
  • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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By: Lars Celander
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In November 1921, the first purpose-built aircraft carrier was launched by the Japanese, followed a year later by the launch of the British Hermes. The conversion of battle cruisers into aircraft carriers after World War I required the consideration of issues including handling aircraft on the flight deck and the techniques of attacking enemy ships, and the evolution of carrier operations was ongoing when World War II broke out. With a focus on the conflict in the Pacific between the US Navy and the imperial Japanese fleet, this title examines how aircraft carriers fought during World War II by first considering all the tools and building blocks of carrier operations, and then discussing the various battles that involved aircraft carriers to explore how carrier operations evolved during war.

Every aspect of carrier operations is covered; from the technology used on the carriers and in aircraft for navigation and communication, to what life was really like in the cockpit for the pilots. A world of tactical dehydration, amphetamine pills, and illegal smoking is explored, as well as the measures pilots implemented to reduce their risk of death in the event of being hit.

©2018 Lars Celander (P)2019 Tantor
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Join the Fleet

Details in abundance. Nerdy. Shape and size of the ship now make sense along with how they were used.

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Ultimately very informative.

Like many of Tantor media's books, it is presented from a very "American" point of view. As is usual there is the usual effort to minimise the considerable part played by Britain and it's allies, and present WW2 as an almost entirely American affair. Which any reasonably well read historian will know is a long way from the truth.
However, as this book progresses you will find it gives due, if begrudging credit where credit is due.
There are the usual inaccuracies involving the "biggest ever" and "bestest ever" but this can be overlooked as the meat of the book revolves ultimately around how carrier warfare evolved over time.
Ultimately very interesting.

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What America Spent makes 100 aircraft carriers a rounding error

The above quote from this book really hit home, how much industrial might America put into the second world war. I couldn't believe it, and went off and verified it!
I consider myself to be somewhat an aviation buff, with a keen interest in the ww2-Vietnam conflicts. This book came into my feed and I genuinely had no idea what to expect. I never even considered what an aircraft carrier and its command spends time thinking about.
The book spends a lot of time, chapter by chapter, discussing various aspects the commander has to consider, and possible tactics, together with a lot of "what if" scenarios. (do we sail carriers together or split them up, is just one of the many areas explored) it is well written, and not lost in technical jargon. it then follows the moves of the US and Japanese carriers during the war, and I thoroughly enjoyed it, learning hundreds of things completely new to me.
it discussed the evolution of technology at that time, and it's incredible to think how anything was even possible before using radios and IFF.
The biggest mystery of all, was beyond the remit of the book...
Why would the Japanese carrier fleet attack Pearl harbour? The book points out America's industrial might, meant producing "100 aircraft carriers was a rounding error.”
if the author could do another book like this, for U-boats to this standard, that would be in my library for sure.

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