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Kaigun
Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941
By David C. Evans and Mark R. Peattie
One of the great spectacles of modern naval history is the Imperial Japanese Navy's instrumental role in Japan's rise from an isolationist feudal kingdom to a potent military empire stridently confronting, in 1941, the world's most powerful nation. Years of painstaking research and analysis of previously untapped Japanese-language resources have produced this remarkable study of the navy's dizzying development, tactical ...
Available Formats: Softcover
Going Back
A Navy Airman in the Pacific War
By Charles J. Furey

Like millions of other young Americans in the 1930s, Charles Furey grew up surrounded by the images and memories of World War I, not knowing that he was part of a generation bred for another war. Pearl Harbor changed all that. In 1942 he enlisted in the Navy and, during the next three years, fought in a war that transformed ...

Available Formats: Hardcover
Marine Navigation
Piloting and Celestial and Electronic Navigation, 4th Edition
Edited by CDR Richard R. Hobbs, USNR (Ret.)
Available Formats: Hardcover
Clashes
Air Combat over North Vietnam, 1965-1972
By Marshall L. Michel III
This classic work—part of the Marine Corps reading list—makes full use of declassified U.S. documents to offer the first comprehensive study of fighter combat over North Vietnam. Marshall Michel's balanced, exhaustive coverage describes and analyzes both Air Force and Navy engagements with North Vietnamese MiGs but also includes discussions of the SAM threat and U.S. countermeasures, laser-guided bombs, and U.S ...
Available Formats: Softcover