The History of the Fleet Air Arm: From Kites to CarriersAirlife, 2000 - 176 Seiten In this history of the Fleet Air Arm we learn of the successes and disappointments of the service, moments that made a dramatic impact such as Taranto and the sinking of the Bismarck, and also the theatres of war that were a long wearisome vigil, such as the Battle of the North Atlantic. |
Inhalt
From the Capitulation of France | 53 |
Operation Torch to Operation | 73 |
CAM Ships MAC Ships and Escort | 87 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
aboard action Admiralty air cover Air Force airborne aircraft carrier aircrews airfields airships Albacores Allied American anti-aircraft fire anti-submarine Argentinian Ark Royal armoured ashore Atlantic attack Avengers battle battleship Bismarck boats bombers bombs Britain British Pacific Fleet CAM ships carried catapult convoy Corsairs craft crew cruisers damage deck defence destroyed destroyers enemy aircraft engine Escort Carriers Falklands feet fighters Fireflies Fleet Air Arm Fleet Carriers flew flight flight-deck flown flying Force H Formidable four French fuel Fulmars Furious German Gibraltar guns harbour helicopters Hellcats Illustrious Indomitable Island Japanese kamikaze kites knots landing later launched lost Malta merchant ships naval North operations patrol pilot planes port radar raid reconnaissance RNAS Royal Navy sailed Sea Harriers Seafires seaplanes shot Skuas Sopwith speed spotted squadron strike force submarine success sunk Swordfish target Task Force Tirpitz took torpedo vessels Victorious weather whilst Zeppelin