Second World War Carrier Campaigns by Wragg, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION I - NO PHONEY WAR AT SEA

Action off Norway Tackling Vichy France

II - NIGHT OF JUDGEMENT

Illustrious Enters The Mediterranean Operation Judgement Retribution

III - TREACHERY IN THE PACIFIC

Planning The Attack Surprise Attack

IV - CONFRONTING THE ENEMY AT SEA

Battle of Cape Matapan Sink the Bismarck! Petsamo and Kirkenes The Operation

V - THE CONVOY WAR

The Merchant Aircraft Carriers The Atlantic Convoys The Arctic Convoys The Malta Convoys On the Attack

VI - THE ADVANCE IS CHECKED

Shangri-La Battle of the Coral Sea

VII - THE TIDE TURNS IN THE EAST

The Battle of Midway

VIII - ALLIES ON THE OFFENSIVE

Madagascar Operation Torch –the Landings in North Africa Operation Husky –The Landings in Sicily Onto the Mainland –The Salerno Landings Landing in the South of France The Offensive against the Tirpitz

IX - TURNING BACK THE JAPANESE TIDE

Landings in the Solomons Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands

X - THE PUSH TOWARDS JAPAN

Pressing Towards Rabaul Taking the Gilbert Islands The Advance on Truk

XI - THE ROYAL NAVY RETURNS TO THE EAST

Illustrious Returns Palembang

XII - THE GREAT MARIANAS TURKEY SHOOT

The Fleets Clash American Submarines find the Carriers Chasing the Enemy

XIII - FIGHTING FOR FORMOSA AND THE PHILIPPINES

The Search for a Classical Naval Engagement–Leyte Gulf The Fleets Clash

XIV - KAMIKAZE!

Kamikaze or Hornet? The Divine Wind of Desperation Life under Attack The End of the Kamikaze

XV - THE NET CLOSES: IWO JIMA AND OKINAWA

The Battle of Okinawa Aboard TF57 Over the Sakishima Gunto After Okinawa

XVI - THE AXIS CARRIERS XVII - THE COMMANDERS

Italy’s Missed Opportunities The British The Americans The Japanese

XVIII - THE FLEET AT PEACE CHRONOLOGY BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX