Aircraft Carriers
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Aircraft Carriers are the ultimate tool of modern power projection. They are symbols of both naval strength and air superiority. This episode covers their history and their future:
http://www.sandcastlevi.com/sea/carriers/cvchap1a.htm
http://www.navy.mil/navydata/ships/carriers/cv-list.asp
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/carriers.htm
http://science.howstuffworks.com/aircraft-carrier.htm
http://www.combatreform2.com/submarineaircraftcarriers.htm
The Pacific War Companion by Daniel Marston
Jane’s Warship Recognition Guide
Imperial Japanese Navy Aircraft Carriers (1921-1945) by Mark Stille
US Navy Bluejacket’s Manual
Military History Podcast is sponsored by Armchair General Magazine
Aircraft Carriers are the ultimate tool of modern power projection. They are symbols of both naval strength and air superiority. This episode covers their history and their future:
- 1840s: Balloon Carriers are invented
- 1900s: Seaplane Carriers are invented
- 1910s: Modern aircraft carriers are invented
- 1930s-1940s: WWII (five major carrier battles)
- Pearl Harbor: Japan's six carriers surprise the United States Navy
- Coral Sea: Japan's three carriers engage America's two carriers (both lose one carrier)
- Midway: America's three carriers engage Japan's four carriers and sink all four, with the help of codebreakers and reconnaissance. Considered a turning point in the Pacific War
- Philippine Sea: America's sixteen carriers destroy or disable all but 35 of the 500 Japanese carrier-based aircraft
- Leyte Gulf: America's seventeen carriers decisively defeat the Imperial Japanese Navy in the largest naval battle in history
- WWII-present: US Carrier Strike Groups control the seas
http://www.sandcastlevi.com/sea/carriers/cvchap1a.htm
http://www.navy.mil/navydata/ships/carriers/cv-list.asp
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/carriers.htm
http://science.howstuffworks.com/aircraft-carrier.htm
http://www.combatreform2.com/submarineaircraftcarriers.htm
The Pacific War Companion by Daniel Marston
Jane’s Warship Recognition Guide
Imperial Japanese Navy Aircraft Carriers (1921-1945) by Mark Stille
US Navy Bluejacket’s Manual
Military History Podcast is sponsored by Armchair General Magazine
posted by George Hageman at 3:04 PM
1 Comments:
I have quite a few problems with this podcast. The discussion of carriers is littered with errors and poor framing. Nevermind the fact that the podcast ignores two of the carrier-versus-carrier battles (Eastern Solomons and Santa Cruz). The discussion of Midway is particularly poor since it mentions Operation AI as a diversion which scholarship has shown was not the case (it struck Dutch Harbor a day early because Kido Butai was one day late in leaving and poor early scholarship simply labeled AI as a diversion when in reality they are two independent operations. I'd recommend Shattered Sword by Parshall and Tully which does an excellent job of refuting the myths surrounding Midway). The podcast also totally ignores differences that arose in the three carrier navies as they tried to figure out how to best use them. They were not crowned king of the seas following Pearl, this did not happen until 1943 for the USN and several months later the IJN when they stopped building battleships and moved to almost exclusively carrier construction.
18 minutes is by not enough to even touch on the pre war carrier developments nevermind the WWII actions. I commend your effort but more careful research is needed in order to produce a quality product.
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