This book is simultaneously a biography of Rear Admiral Herbert Victor Wiley and a history of the U.S. Navy's lighter-than-air (LTA) program. As tensions rose between Japan and the United States over control of East Asia and the Pacific Ocean, the prospects of war between the two nations increased. The Navy tracked Germany’s use of zeppelins during World War I ...
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"Rear Admiral Herbert V. Wiley, U.S. Navy"
A Career in Airships and Battleships
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Allied Coastal Forces of World War II
Volume II: Vosper MTBs and US Elcos
Allied Coastal Forces, now a recognized classic work first published in 1990, remains the only publication to deal comprehensively—in words, photographs, and drawings—with the technical detail of motor torpedo boats, PT boats, motor gunboats, launches, and submarine chasers. This second volume covers sixteen Vosper MTB designs and the US 70ft, 77ft and 80ft ELCO designs.
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How the Few Became the Proud
"Crafting the Marine Corps Mystique, 1874-1918"
For more than half of its existence, members of the Marine Corps largely self-identified as soldiers. It did not yet mean something distinct to be a Marine, either to themselves or to the public at large. As neither a land-based organization like the Army nor an entirely sea-based one like the Navy, the Corps' missions overlapped with both institutions.
This ...
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