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The Author begins this fascinating book by tracing aircraft carrier development between the Wars. Eschewed by the Germans and Italians and with Britain squandering her early lead, the Americans and Japanese became front-runners.The Royal Navy learnt the hard way in the early stages of WW2 with the loss of HMS Courageous and Glorious but, following successes at Taranto and Matapan, the value of carriers was no longer in doubt. The sinking of Bismarck and the cataclysmic Pearl Harbor attack signaled the end of the Battleship era. Stung by such spectacular losses the US Navy threw its weight behind the carrier concept and the naval war in the Pacific (Guadalcanal, East Solomon Islands, Santa Cruz, Midmay and Leyte Gulf) revolved round carrier-borne aircraft.Meanwhile the carrier became pivotal in protecting vital convoys in the Atlantic, Arctic and Mediterranean. The author backs his arguments with copious examples of naval and air action.

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Acknowledgements

I t has been my good fortune to have enjoyed the assistance of many people but in particular that of: Brigadier Henry Wilson and his team at my publishers, Pen & Sword Books Ltd.; Andrew Hewson and his team at my Agents, Johnson & Alcock Ltd.; the late Captain Donald MacIntyre and the late David Brown who it seems many years ago now helped to further my understanding of carrier warfare in the Pacific; Noel Bell and Mike Rossiter, both happily still with us, who performed a similar service with regard to British carrier operations; Karen Selley, my editor; Pamela Covey, my proofreader; Sylvia Menzies-Earl, who prepared the manuscript; Philip Fisher and the staff of the Birmingham Institute & Library, the Taylor Library and the Office of Information at the US Navy department, Washington, who between them provided the photographs. To all of these my sincere thanks.

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