- 1976 edition, 187 pages
- Published by Hutchinson Group, Australia.
- Hardcover with dust jacket. Blue Boards.
- Good plus condition. Some wear, fading to dust jacket and edge of boards.
Illustrated. Indexed. Maps inside both boards.
Nobody really knew in 1939 what aircraft would do in the coming war at sea. By 1945 there was no doubt about it. The aircraft had proved itself the most powerful, most flexible, longest-ranging weapon ever used at sea.
This book is the first to examine in detail the influence of the aircraft, its successes and its failures, over the whole span of the Second World War at sea - from the first tentative manoeuvrings of the British Home Fleet carriers in 1939 to the final triumphant strikes of the U.S. Fast Carrier Task Force against the mainland of Japan in 1945.
Illustrated by some of the most dramatic war pictures ever published, Air Power At Sea highlights the part aircraft played in the great actions of the war.
There seemed no end to the roles aircraft could play: torpedo strike, fighter defence about fleet and convoy, close support to the assault troops in an amphibious landing, long-range reconnaissance, mine-laying, air-sea rescue, and weather reporting. The art of flying was constantly being refined. There were new aircraft, new weapons, new techniques - and there were new personalities.
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