Chronicles in compelling detail the historic showdown between the U.S. Air Force and the Navy over the role of carrier aviation in the national security framewo

Chronicles the showdown between the U.S. Airforce and the Navy over the role of carrier aviation in the national security framework.

The National Security Act if 1947, intended to unify the separate armed forces services under a single Defense Secretary, failed to settle the deeper issue that

With the advent of the atomic bomb in 1945 and its impact on strategic thinking, the future of naval aviation looked bleak. Rapid demobilization after the war e