Warships International Fleet Review-October 2022
English | 54 Pages | PDF | 54.32 MB

Fleet Air Arm Boys Volume One: Air Defence Fighter Aircraft Since 1945
English | 2020 | ISBN: 191162198X | 256 Pages | EPUB | 20 MB
The RAF's continuing role in the projection of air power in the defence of the United Kingdom and its overseas interests since the end of the Second World War is well known. However, the same cannot always be said about the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm (FAA), in part due to the ten-year gap between the retirement of the Harrier and the arrival of the F-35B and the Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers. Flying high performance aircraft off a carrier demands not only a high level of skill, but also a considerable amount of courage and determination, not least to land back on a very small piece of real estate bobbing about in a rough sea, often at night, with no possibility of diversion. The nature of these operations has meant that the accident rate and aircrew losses were very high - and accepted as part of the job. With the arrival of the Queen Elizabeth and the Prince of Wales, it is time to redress the balance and bring the FAA's extraordinary story to the audience it so richly deserves through the words of those air and ground crews who have been part of it since 1945. What emerges is an amazing close-knit esprit de corps, often accompanied by a long-standing and still simmering rivalry between the RAF and the Royal Navy over who should project air power overseas. Enormous respect is shown by the aviators and ships' senior officers for the aircraft handlers and maintainers, who work long hours in a highly dangerous environment on the flight deck. This first volume looks chronologically at every aircraft type flown in an air defence role since 1945. Involvement in conflicts including Korea, Suez, the Falklands, Bosnia and elsewhere is included, and perforce the cost in human lives, even in everyday operations, frequently emerges. Balancing this are the everyday grind, the good times, the humour, the 'runs ashore' and the sense of pride in a job well done. All delivered in the words of the men themselves.

Warships International Fleet Review-September 2022
English | 54 Pages | PDF | 55.82 MB

The Forgotten Fleet: The Story of the British Pacific Fleet, 1944-45 (World War Two at Sea) by John Winton
English | June 12, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09VH1WW79 | 544 pages | EPUB | 0.63 Mb

Find, Fix and Strike!: The Fleet Air Arm at War, 1939-45 (World War Two at Sea) by John Winton
English | July 10, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09XV6249M | 215 pages | EPUB | 0.99 Mb

The Fleet Air Arm and the War in Europe, 1939-1945
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1526799790 | 440 Pages | EPUB (True) | 58 MB
For the first time, this book tells the story of how naval air operations evolved into a vital element of the Royal Navy's ability to fight a three-dimensional war against both the Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe. An integral part of RN, the Fleet Air Arm was not a large organization, with only 406 pilots and 232 front-line aircraft available for operations in September 1939. Nevertheless, its impact far outweighed its numbers - it was an RN fighter that shot down the first enemy aircraft of the war, and an RN pilot was the first British fighter 'ace' with 5 or more kills. The Fleet Air Arm's rollcall of achievements in northern waters went on to include the Norwegian Campaign, the crippling of Bismarck, the gallant sortie against Scharnhorst and Gneisenau as they passed through the Channel, air attacks on enemy E-boats in the narrow seas, air cover for the Russian convoys, air attacks that disabled Tirpitz, and strikes and minelaying operations against German shipping in the Norwegian littoral that continued until May 1945. By the end of the war in Europe the FAA had grown to 3243 pilots and 1336 aircraft.

Richard Freeman, "Tempestuous Genius: The Life of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher"
English | ISBN: 172676639X | 2018 | 456 pages | AZW3 | 493 KB
No man ever made his mark on the Navy the way that Lord Fisher did.

Rodney K. Watterson, "32 in'44: Building the Portsmouth Submarine Fleet in World War II"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1591149533 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 2.3 mb
After averaging the completion of less than two submarines a year in the 1930s, the Portsmouth Navy Yard completed an astonishing thirty-two submarines in 1944 including the simultaneous launching of three submarines. The yard built seventy-nine submarines between 1941 and 1945, a fleet that collectively represented thirty-seven percent of the United States submarines built during the war and sank over one third of the Japanese shipping sunk by United States submarines. 32 in '44 analyzes the factors behind the yard's record setting submarine production that made such a significant contribution to the winning of the war.

Thomas B. Buell, "Master of Seapower: A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1591140420 | EPUB | pages: 656 | 9.3 mb
A comprehensive biography of the most powerful naval officer in the history of the United States who was the controversial architect of the American victory in the Pacific.

Warships International Fleet Review - August 2022
English | 52 pages | PDF | 53.1 MB