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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 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…
The following article on war in the Pacific during World War Two 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 December 1941 the Imperial Japanese Navy alone combined ships, aircraft, and doctrine in…
The following article on the HMS Avenger and Dasher 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. As the Guadalcanal campaign peaked in the Pacific, American carriers prepared for a major Allied offensive…
The following article on the HMS Audacity 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. Probably no warship had a more varied career in the Second World War than HMS Audacity. Launched in…
The following article on the escort carrier program 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. Among the miracles of production in the Second World War was America’s escort carrier program. For…
The following article on the Bismarck Battleship is an excerpt from The Hunt for Hitler's Warship © 2015 by Patrick Bishop. It is available now from Amazon or Barnes & Noble. The Bismarck Battleship was the first Bismarck-class battleships built for Nazi Germany's navy. The ship represented the clearest example of Germany's military superiority in the run-up to World War…