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and therefore deserves serious reading.
On this Golden Anniversary of U. S. naval aviation, we are told that our Navy’s air arm ls at its peak of efficiency and accomplishment; also that this is only the beginning, that the greatest is yet to come, that the future holds limitless horizons in this field of flight. On these evaluations of the present and the future most of us have to place our faith and trust in the experts. But a knowledge and appreciation of the past—of the first 50 years of naval aviation—are within the grasp of all Who will read the numerous written accounts which describe and evaluate in rather full detail the policies, events, and personalities closely associated with this past half-century °f the U. S. Navy in the air.
If the reader seeks a one-volume, compact history of the first 50 years of naval aviation, he will unfortunately seek in vain, for the most pertinent observation about the historiCal material in this field is that the writings are scattered and often incomplete. Nonethe- ess> as will be shown, there is an abundance *° keep the serious student gainfully occupied 0r quite some time.
Only one major effort has been made to tell lhe full story of naval aviation, and although
• D. Turnbull and C. L. Lord’s History oj . nii(d States Naval Aviation (Yale, 1949)* is ^adequate, it is the best available book in its
nis volume, based mainly on official documents and reports and written before a num- of the major post-1945 sources were avail- D,e! attempts to cover the story from the Pro- ess°r Langley days at the end of the 19th ^cntury up to America’s entry into World , ar II. The Turnbull and Lord book is a ehnite start toward what is needed in this
kVhen no price is given, the book is out of print.
field, but the incredible developments in naval aviation during the past two decades merit nothing less than a full-scale retelling of the whole brilliant story of naval airpower.
Two recent picture books go far toward presenting this whole story, at least in graphic form. The broader of these is Martin Caidin’s Golden Wings (Random House, 1960, $10.00), which is a pictorial history of naval and Marine Corps aviation from earliest days to the Polaris age. Golden Wings, a companion volume to the same author’s U. S. Air Force, a pictorial history (Rinehart, 1957, $10.00) is a superb photographic coverage with more than 60,000 words of text. Almost half of this attractive volume is devoted to the World War II era.
The other broad treatment, also pictorial, is Barrett Gallagher’s Flattop (Doubleday, 1959, $5.95) which gives to the U. S. carrier a rather thorough biographic coverage.
Before World War II
Naval biography constitutes one of the major sources of information on naval aviation developments down to 1940. The remarkably full life of Rear Admiral Bradley
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Fiske (1854-1942) is admirably set forth in his autobiography, From Midshipman to Rear Admiral (Century, 1919), a life which was intimately involved in the pioneering events of the U. S. Navy in the air. Among Fiske’s many technological contributions was the first torpedo plane, patented in 1912.
Glenn Curtiss’ limitless associations with naval aviation are set forth in C. Studer’s Sky Storming Yankee (1937), but there is need for a first class, mature biography of this great aviation pioneer.
No full biographic treatment exists of such leaders as W. I. Chambers, A. C. Read, T. G. Ellyson, Eugene Ely, N. L. Bellinger, John Rodgers, J. C. Hunsaker, N. E. Irwin, M. L. Bristol, T. T. Craven, or of many of the other true naval aviation pioneers. There is, however, a most worthwhile biography of Rear Admiral W. A. Moffett in From Frigates to Flat-tops (1935), published and distributed by the author, Edward Arpee. In this volume, Moffett, who served as the dynamic Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics from its inception in 1921 until his death in the Akron disaster in 1933, receives the most thorough biographic treatment of any of those great figures who contributed so much to guide the early affairs of the flying Navy.
Of that unique group of naval air pioneers only one has left a valuable written record of his own recollections. One of Moffett’s most able disciples, Eugene E. Wilson, has made this distinct contribution in three books of genuine merit: Air Power for Peace (McGraw- Hill, 1945), Slipstream (1950), and Kitty Hawk to Sputnik to Polaris (Barre Publishing Company, Barre, Mass., 1960, $5.00).
Another high-value source for naval aviation developments in the Twenties and Thirties is Fleet Admiral King (Norton, 1952, $12.50), by Fleet Admiral King and Walter Whitehall. Present generations usually recall King as CNO and COMINCH during most of World War II, but it should be remembered that King played a series of key roles as commanding officer of the old carrier Lexington, later as successor to Moffet in BuAer, and still later, in the late 1930’s, as an air commander in the Fleet.
No one name is more associated with the “Old Navy’s” air activities than that of Richard E. Byrd, whose polar and transatlantic flights went far to popularize American naval aviation. Byrd’s fascinating books, Skyward (Putnam, 1928), Little America (Putnam, 1930), Discovery (Putnam, 1935), and Alone (Putnam, 1938), constitute the most extensive autobiographical accounts of any of the early air pioneers.
Before leaving the Twenties and Thirties mention should be made of John Toland’s Ships in the Sky (Holt, 1957, $4.95), which is an absorbing succession of stories of eight rigid airships which met disaster, the U. S. Navy’s Akron and Macon being among them.
World War II
There is no thorough, over-all study of the role of U. S. naval airpower in World War II, but neither is there a dearth of excellent material on this subject. The greatest single source is, quite naturally, the 14 volumes of Samuel Eliot Morison’s History of U. S. Naval Operations in World War II (Little, Brown, 1947-1960, $6.50 each volume). No single Morison volume merits more attention than its 13 companions, for the growing significance of naval airpower is clearly evident in each of these excellent books. The Morison series is definitely the best and fullest account of any naval record of any war.
The other official American histories of World War II offer valuable, though limited, material on the role of naval and Marine airpower. Particularly is this true of the 15 U. S. Marine Corps monographs on the over-all role of the Marine Corps during the war. Two of these excellent studies pertain especially to our theme: Colonel Robert Hcinl’s Marines at Midway (Govt. Printing Office, 1947, $1.50), and Major C. W. Boggs’s Marine Aviation in the Philippines (Govt. Printing Office, 1953, $2.50), the latter dealing exclusively with the 1944-45 liberation of the Philippines.
While on the U. S. Marines’ story, serious mention should be made of two volumes. The first is Robert Sherrod’s History of Marine Corps Aviation in World War II (Combat Forces Press, 1952, $6.50), which is an unusually thorough book, rich in detail, with useful appendices relating to U. S. Marine Corps unit histories, etc. The other noteworthy book is The U. S. Marines and Amphibious Warfare (Princeton, 1951), by J. Isley and P. Crowl, a
volume which includes numerous references to close-air support and other related themes.
Back to the official histories: even the multivolume History of the U. S. Army in World War II (Govt. Printing Office, 50-odd volumes published, another 30 in progress), and the seven-volume History of the U. S. Army Air Forces in World War II (Chicago, 1948-58, $8.50 each volume), by Craven and Cate, contain more than passing mention of U. S. Navy and Marine Corps aviation.
Several World War II naval biographies are especially important in presenting significant aspects of naval airpower. Fleet Admiral King is useful as a view of the whole naval war from the Washington command center. Much more useful for “on location” accounts are the biographies of Halsey, Mitscher, and Frederick Sherman. Admiral Halsey's Story (McGraw-Hill, 1947, $4.00), by Fleet Admiral W. F. Halsey and J. Bryan was the first of the naval biographies to emerge after the war. This book is highly dramatic and generally Halsey-like throughout. The serious student of airpower, however, may well wish that more air history and less Halsey were presented. Still, the Halsey volume gives a genuine flavor of the role of naval aviation in the Pacific War.
A less flamboyant biography, thereby fitting its particular subject, is Theodore Taylor’s The Magnificent Mitscher (Norton, 1954, $5.00), a volume which gives the reader a feeling of what life must have been aboard the flagship of a fast carrier task force.
Rear Admiral Frederick Sherman produced a useful volume entitled Combat Command: the American Aircraft Carriers in the Pacific War (Dutton, 1950, $5.00), which gives a Vlvid portrait of this theme. Sherman held numerous commands including the first Lex- lngton during the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Leaving the biographic field and moving lnto ship histories, the reader can gain carrier experience” from S. Johnston’s Queen of the Plat-tops (Dutton, 1942), the story of USS Enterprise's role in the early days of the Pacific War; j Bryan’s Aircraft Carrier (Ballentine, 1954, $.35), centering on activities aboard the new Torktown; and Mission Beyond Darkness (F>uell, 1945) by J. Bryan and P. Reid, this dramatic book being the story of Mitscher’s Planes in the Battle of the Philippine Sea,
June 1944. A major disaster is ably chronicled in Father Joseph O’Callahan’s I Was Chaplain on the Franklin (Macmillan, $2.95).
Midway, the Battle That Doomed Japan (U. S. Naval Institute, 1955, $4.50, $3.38 to members), by Fuchida and Okumiya, presents a number of close views of American naval airpower as viewed from the Japanese side.
The U. S. Navy’s Bureau of Aeronautics has no published history of its role during World War II (several other Navy bureaus such as Yards and Docks and Ordnance have published good histories), but in Rear Admiral J. A. Furer’s massive Administration of the Navy Department in World War II (Govt. Printing Office, 1959, $6.50), will be found an excellent chapter on BuAer. Furer very wisely devoted appropriate space to the pre- 1940 history of that bureau.
Perhaps the most significant research and writing project currently under way in the field of naval aviation is Captain M. W. Cagle’s United States Carrier Operations in World War II, which is being written for the Naval Institute to supplement its United States Submarine Operations in World War II and United States Destroyer Operations in World War II.
The Cold War Era
Two volumes on Korea deal heavily with naval and Marine Corps aviation in that struggle. The Sea War in Korea (U. S. Naval Institute, 1957, $6.00, $4.50 to members), is the best account of the role of seapower in that war, and the late Lynn Montross’s Cavalry of the Sky (Harper, 1955, $3.00), presents an excellent description and analysis of the role of Marine Corps helicopters in the Korean struggle.
A number of the strategy books produced since the end of World War II touch to varying degrees on naval aviation. The most readable of these are Bernard Brodie’s Guide to Naval Strategy (Princeton, rev. ed., 1959, $6.00), and the same author’s Strategy in the Missile Age (Princeton, 1959, $6.50), both of which devote particular attention to the use of naval air strength in the Cold War era. A book which is highly pessimistic concerning the future of the carrier is The Question of National Defense (Random House, 1959, $3.95), by Oskar Morgenstern of Princeton.
More than a half-century ago the first of Fred T. Jane’s All the World’s Air-Ships (1909) was published in London, and if the airpower student’s patience endures, these 50-some volumes will provide one of the best evolutionary accounts of America’s (or any other nation’s) naval aviation development. The most recent volume, Jane's All the Worlds Aircraft 1960-1961 (McGraw-Hill, 1961, $32.50), devotes a record number of pages to American civilian and military aircraft, aerial power plants, and guided missiles, and includes valuable tables of the aviation “firsts” which occurred during the period October 1959— October 1960. A careful use of this volume’s distinguished companion, Jane's Fighting Ships (McGraw-Hill, 1961, $35.00), will, of course, provide the accompanying story of aircraft carriers.
Periodicals
Perhaps the richest mines for material on the history of all types of aviation are to be found in various periodicals, a number of which merit special mention. First, almost every issue of the U. S. Naval Institute Proceedings contains some reference to this integral part of today’s seapower, and often articles of major significance have appeared. Other principal periodical sources are Military Affairs (the quarterly journal of the American Military Institute), Naval Aviation News (continuously in publication since October 1919), Our Navy, Air Historian (since 1954), and especially, the Marine Corps Gazette.
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A bibliographic round-up of this nature accentuates not only the available material, but also the gaps. The most obvious gap, as has already been noted, is the need for a first- class history of U. S. Naval and Marine Corps aviation. While no ideal example exists to point to on the Air Force shelves, still one work invites serious comparison, and that is The Impact of Air Power (Van Nostrand, 1959, $12.50), skillfully edited by E. M. Emme. This massive collection of selections of the best that has been written and spoken on the influence of airpower on historical events is a highly commendable work which merits close examination by any student of airpower—naval or otherwise. A similar volume devoted to naval and Marine Corps aviation would be an outstanding starting project for the over-all historical account which this bibliographic summary pleads for.
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Too Many
During our naval aviation summer in Pensacola, Florida, a number of unfortunate midshipmen had to resort to extensive use of the infamous “barf bag” during their orientation flights. Before such a flight and after the instructor had finished describing some of the more difficult acrobatic maneuvers, there came a sick voice from the back of the room, “How many bags does that take?”
--------------------------------------- Contributed by Midshipman Uldis R. Roze, U. S. Navy
(The Naval Institute will pay $5.00 for each anecdote accepted for publication in the Proceedings.)
This is the Naval Institute’s eighth naval history narrating the participation of the foreign powers who were engaged in World War II. All of these histories are written by leading naval officers who have an intimate, inside official knowledge of the conduct of their own country’s naval war.
White Ensign is the factual, colorful story of great seamen facing their biggest challenge tn two centuries. In fighting their enemies under the sea, on its surface, and in the air above, the Royal Navy often met crushing defeat. But in the end its victories totaled more than its defeats. With the aid of the United States Navy and other navies, it regained control of the Seven Seas.
Captain Roskill is an official British historian of World War II. As such, he not only had access to British Admiralty records but also to enemy sources of information, for most of Germany’s naval archives eventually came into the possession of the British.
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Vol. IV—1950-1958 .............................................................................................................. $10.00 ($7.50)
Compiled by Keith Frazier Somerville and Harriotte W. B. Smith. 1959. 291 pages. Illustrated.
Sons of Gunboats.................................................................................................................. $2.75 ($2.07)
By Commander F. L. Sawyer, USN (Ret.). Personal narrative of gunboat experiences in the Philippines, 1899-1900. 1946. 153 pages. Illustrated.
Squash Racquets.................................................................................................................. $1.60 ($1.28)
By Commander Arthur M. Potter, USNR. 1958. 50 pages. Photographs and diagrams. Paper bound.
The United States Coast Guard, 1790-1915 .................................................. $5.00 ($3.75)
By Captain Stephen H. Evans, U. S. Coast Guard. A definitive history (With a Postscript: 1915-1949). 1949. 228 pages. Illustrated.
The United States Coast Guard in World War II................................................................. $6.00 ($4.50)
By Malcolm F. Willoughby. 1957. 347 pages. 200 photographs. 27 charts.
United States Destroyer Operations in World War II.......................................................... $10.00 ($7.50)
By Theodore Roscoe. 1953. 581 pages. Illustrated.
United States Submarine Operations in World War II........................................... $10.00 ($7.50)
By Theodore Roscoe. 1949. 577 pages. Illustrated.
Special price—2-volume set: Destroyer and Submarine books (listed above) $12.50 ($15.15)
Victory Without War, 1958-1961 $2.00 ($1.50)
By George Fielding Eliot. 1958. 126 pages.
Watch Officer’s Guide.............................................................................................................. $2.50 ($2.00)
Revised by Captain J. V. Noel, Jr., USN. 9th edition, 1961. 302 pages. Illustrated.
Wc Build a Navy........................................................................................................................ $2.75 ($2.07)
By Lieutenant Commander H. H. Frost, USN. A vivid and dramatic narrative of our early
Navy. 1929.501 pages. Illustrated.
Welcome Aboard....................................................................................................................... $4.00 ($3.00)
By Florence Ridgely Johnson. A guide for the naval officer’s bride. 5th edition, 1960. 273 pages.
White Ensign, The British Navy at War, 1939-1945 ........ $4.50 ($3.38)
By Captain S. W. Roskill, D.S.C., R.N. (Ret.). 1960. 480 pages. Illustrated.
Your Naval Academy................................................................................................................. $1.00 ($ .75)
By Midshipmen Burton and Hart. A handsome 48-page pictorial presentation of a Midshipman’s life at the Naval Academy. Brief descriptive captions. 1955. Paper bound.
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