Lake Michigan's Aircraft Carriers (Il)  (Images of America) - Paul M. Somers - Livros - Arcadia Publishing - 9780738532080 - 5 de novembro de 2003
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Lake Michigan's Aircraft Carriers (Il) (Images of America) First edition

Paul M. Somers

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Lake Michigan's Aircraft Carriers (Il) (Images of America) First edition

Lake Michigan's Aircraft Carriers is the story of the USS Wolverine and the USS Sable, two Great Lakes excursion ships converted for use as aircraft carrier training during World War II. Through the duration of the war, the United States Navy qualified 17,800 pilots for aircraft carrier operation. Training the pilots on either the Atlantic or the Pacific Ocean would have exposed the training ships to the danger of submarine attack, while requiring the escort of fighting ships that were needed elsewhere. It would also have involved arming and armoring the ships used for training. Commander R. F. Whitehead came up with an idea that solved all of these problems. He suggested doing the training on the protected waters of the Great Lakes.

The USS Wolverine and the USS Sable were chosen and thus became the only fresh water, paddle-wheeled, coal-fired aircraft carriers in the history of the world. Author Paul M. Somers shares his collection of vintage photos and a lifetime of research to detail the history of these two great vessels-from their life as cruise ships to their contributions to the war effort and then to their eventual scrapping.

Mídia Livros     Paperback Book   (Livro de capa flexível e brochura)
Lançado 5 de novembro de 2003
ISBN13 9780738532080
Editoras Arcadia Publishing
Páginas 128
Dimensões 169 × 11 × 231 mm   ·   322 g
Idioma English