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02472aam a2200349 i 4500 001 5059867A440211EF98CC15ED37ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240717010108 008 220520s2022 mdua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022023893 020 $a 1682477622 020 $a 9781682477625 035 $a (OCoLC)1319245962 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCL $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a V874.3 F74 2022 084 $a TRA006010 $a TRA006010 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Friedman, Norman, $d 1946- $e author. 245 10 $a U.S. aircraft carriers : $b an illustrated design history / $c Norman Friedman ; ship plans by A. D. Baker III. 250 $a Revised edition. 264 1 $a Annapolis, Maryland : $b Naval Institute Press, $c [2022] 300 $a viii, 498 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 29 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The Role of the Carrier in the U.S. Navy -- Beginnings: The Langley, Lexington, and Saratoga -- Carrier Spectrum Studies and the USS Ranger, 1922-29 -- The Yorktown Class -- The Return to Smaller Dimensions, 1934-39 -- The ORANGE War Mobilization Carriers -- The Essex Class -- Austere Carriers for War Production -- The Midway Class -- The New Fleet Carrier of 1945 -- The Super-Carrier United States -- The Forrestal Class and Its Successors -- Carrier Modernization -- Nuclear Carriers -- Return to the Small Carrier: CVV, 1972-78 -- Carrier Renaissance -- After the Cold War -- Postwar ASW Carriers -- The Amphibious-Assault Carriers. 520 $a "U.S. Aircraft Carriers Revised Edition is one of the most comprehensive references available on the entire development of U.S. Aircraft Carriers, starting in 1920, with USS Langley CV-1, continuing to Enterprise, the mass-produced Essex-class, and the large Midway-class of post-World War II. Friedman authoritatively analyzes the design and performance histories of this popular type. The long careers of the Nimitz-class and the new Ford-class are also included. Like Friedman's other design history books, U.S. Aircraft Carriers is based largely on formerly classified internal U.S. Navy records"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Aircraft carriers $z United States. 700 1 $a Baker, A. D., $c III, $d 1941- $e illustrator. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240717024041.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5059867A440211EF98CC15ED37ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search