Carrier Operations in World War II by Brown, J.D. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Editor’s Foreword Introduction Abbreviations Volume One: The Royal Navy, September 1939 – September 1945

Acknowledgements Chapter 1: The Atlantic and Arctic

Ocean Warfare: September 1939 to March 1940 Norway – 1940 Atlantic Operations – The Home Fleet and Force H: July 1940 to May 1941 The Hunt for the Bismarck The Home Fleet in Northern Waters: June 1941 to March 1944 The Strikes on the Tirpitz: April to August 1944 Operations in Norwegian Coastal Waters: April 1944 to May 1945 Escort Carriers with North Russian Convoys: February 1944 to May 1945 The Battle of the Atlantic – The Escort Carriers’ Contribution Merchant Aircraft Carriers

Chapter 2: The Mediterranean Fleet

September 1939 to May 1941

Chapter 3: Force H and Operations in the Western Mediterranean and Aegean

June 1940 to November 1941 Mediterranean Operations The Western Mediterranean: January to October 1942 828 and 830 Squadrons Amphibious Operations in the Mediterranean – November 1942 to October 1944

Operation Torch Force H 1943 – Operation Husky Operation Dragoon: 15 to 20 August 1944

Aegean Operations: September and October 1944

Chapter 4: The Indian Ocean

September 1939 to December 1941 December 1941 to January 1943 Diego Suarez: 5 to 7 May 1942 Victorious in the South West Pacific – 1943 October 1943 to January 1945 The East Indies Fleet in 1945

Chapter 5: The British Pacific Fleet

Palembang – January 1945 Okinawa: The Sakishima Gunto, March to May 1945 Fast Carrier Operations off Japan, 17 July to 15 August 1945

Volume Two: The Pacific Navies, December 1941 – February 1943

Acknowledgements Introduction: The Pacific War to February 1943 Chapter 1: First Strike: Pearl Harbor

The attack Aftermath Wake Island

Chapter 2: The Philippines and East Indies Campaign

Riposte – The American Carriers Attack

Marshalls strike Gilberts strike Rabaul threatened Wake and Marcus The first two-ship strike The Tokyo raid

Ceylon – The Last Unparried Stroke Colombo

Trincomalee

Chapter 3: The First Parries

The Battle of the Coral Sea

Day one: the strategic victory Day two: the tactical defeat

The Sword, the Anvil, and the Hammer

The Aleutians and Midway Strikes on the Aleutians Midway – the approach Midway – the carriers close in Midway – the carrier battle Midway – countermarch and chase Last losses

Chapter 4: ‘Watchtower’ – Guadalcanal

Operation Watchtower, 7-8 August 1942

The assault The carriers withdraw Waiting for Nagumo The Battle of the Eastern Solomons Aftermath

Addition Ashore, Subtraction at Sea The Battle of Santa Cruz

The preliminaries The battle The reckoning

The Battle of Guadalcanal Victory on Guadalcanal

Volume Three: The Pacific Navies, February 1943 – September 1945

Introduction: The Pacific War after 1943 Chapter 1: The Coming of the Fast Carrier Task Forces

The Fleets South-West Pacific – February to June 1943 The ‘I’ Operation The Aleutians New Georgia The New Wine Training Strikes: September and October 1943 Bougainville and Rabaul – November 1943

Chapter 2: The Central Pacific and the Solomons

Operation Galvanic: the Invasion of the Gilbert Islands

The Assault

Reorganisation and Strikes – December 1943 Nauru and Kavieng The State of the Carriers – January 1944 Operation Flintlock – the Invasion of the Marshall Islands

The Assault

Eniwetok and Truk Hailstone on Truk

Chapter 3: The ‘Leap-frog’ Strategy

The Revival of the Combined Fleet Plans for the Pacific Fast Carrier Operations – March 1944 Palaus Strikes New Guinea – MacArthur’s Flank Force Pacific Pause Forager: The Campaign which Won the War

Preliminaries The Battle Day Two

Chapter 4: The Philippines

Pacific Strategy after the Marianas Preparations for the landings in Leyte Gulf Logistics The Battle of Leyte Gulf The Landings on Luzon in December 1944

Chapter 5: Closing in on Japan

Iwo Jima Operation Iceberg – the assault on Okinawa Strikes against mainland Japan in July and August 1945 The projected Operation Olympic – November 1945

Volume One Appendices

U-boats sunk by Fleet Air Arm Aircraft Vichy French Submarines sunk by Fleet Air Arm Aircraft Vichy French Submarine shared with surface escort U-boats shared with surface escorts and other Services British Aircraft Carriers The Escort Carriers

Volume Two Appendix: The Carrier Battles – Profit and Loss

The Battle of the Coral Sea The Battle of Midway The Battle of the Eastern Solomons The Battle of Santa Cruz

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