U.S. Aircraft Carriers, Revised Edition. An illustrated design history

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The Norman Friedman Illustrated Design History series of U.S. warships has been an industry standard for three decades and has sold thousands of copies worldwide. To mark and celebrate this achievement, the Naval Institute Press is proud to make these books available once more. Digitally remastered for enhanced photo resolution and quality, corrected, and updated, this series will continue to serve - for scholars and enthusiasts alike - as the foundation for U.S. naval warship research and reference for years to come.

Contents
Foreword Acknowledgments Key to Line Drawings Introduction
1. The Role of the Carrier in the U.S. Navy
2. Beginnings: The Langley, Lexington, and Saratoga
3. Carrier Spectrum Studies and the USS Ranger, 1922-29
4. The Yorktown Class
5. The Return to Smaller Dimensions, 1934-39
6. The Orange War Mobilization Carriers
7. The Essex Class
8. Austere Carriers for War Production
9. The Midway Class
10. The New Fleet Carrier of 1945
11. The Super-Carrier United States
12. The Forrestal Class and Its Successors
13. Carrier Modernization
14. Nuclear Carriers
15. Return to the Small Carrier: CW, 1972-78
16. Carrier Renaissance
17. After the Cold War
18. Postwar ASW Carriers
19. The Amphibious-Assault Carriers Appendices
A. Out of the Mainstream
B. Catapults
C. Arresting Gear
D. Magazine Loads
E. Carrier Characteristics
F. Vital Statistics of Carrier Types Notes on Sources
Index