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All category topics on the military, political, social, and cultural aspects of the Second World War.
All category topics on the military, political, social, and cultural aspects of the Second World War.
The following article on the Mariana and Palau Islands Campaign is an excerpt from Barrett Tillman's book On Wave and Wing: The 100 Year Quest to Perfect the Aircraft Carrier. It is available to order now at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The Central Pacific Offensive—a campaign whose goal was to neutralize Japanese bases and provide…
The following article on the F6F Hellcat an excerpt from Barrett Tillman's book On Wave and Wing: The 100 Year Quest to Perfect the Aircraft Carrier. It is available to order now at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. In 1943, the United States deployed numerous new aircraft carriers in the Pacific Theatre, including a number of…
The following article on the Essex Class Aircraft Carrier is an excerpt from Barrett Tillman's book On Wave and Wing: The 100 Year Quest to Perfect the Aircraft Carrier. It is available to order now at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. By 1943 momentum was moving in America's direction against Japan in the Pacific Theatre of…
The following article on the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands is an excerpt from Barrett Tillman's book On Wave and Wing: The 100 Year Quest to Perfect the Aircraft Carrier. It is available to order now at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The malarial Santa Cruz Islands bear three hundred miles east of the Solomons,…
The following article on the Battle of the Eastern Solomons an excerpt from Barrett Tillman's book On Wave and Wing: The 100 Year Quest to Perfect the Aircraft Carrier. It is available to order now at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The Battle of the Eastern Solomons on August 24, 1942—part of the Guadalcanal Campaign in…
The following article on the Battle of Guadalcanal is an excerpt from Barrett Tillman's book On Wave and Wing: The 100 Year Quest to Perfect the Aircraft Carrier. It is available to order now at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Only sixty days after the Battle of Midway—in which Allied forces in the Pacific inflicted irreparable…
The following article on the U-505 is an excerpt from Barrett Tillman's book On Wave and Wing: The 100 Year Quest to Perfect the Aircraft Carrier. It is available to order now at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. In June 1944 USS Guadalcanal’s (CVE-60) hunter-killer group scored a spectacular coup off the African coast. The CVE skipper,…
The following article on the career of Eric "Winkle" Brown, a World War II naval pilot, is an excerpt from Barrett Tillman's book On Wave and Wing: The 100 Year Quest to Perfect the Aircraft Carrier. It is available to order now at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The world champion carrier aviator was Captain Eric M.…
The following article on the Battle of Midway is an excerpt from Barrett Tillman's book On Wave and Wing: The 100 Year Quest to Perfect the Aircraft Carrier. It is available to order now at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The Battle of Midway was a decisive blow to Japan's naval supremacy in the Pacific Theatre of…
The following article on the Battle of the Coral Sea is an excerpt from Barrett Tillman's book On Wave and Wing: The 100 Year Quest to Perfect the Aircraft Carrier. It is available to order now at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The Battle of the Coral Sea was the world's first naval battle in which…
