IMAGES OF WAR: US NAVAL AVIATION 1898-1945: The Pioneering Years to the Second World War.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Yorkshire and Philadelphia: Pen and Sword Aviation, (2021). First edition - From the back cover: "The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 sank or crippled almost all of the battleships belonging to the US Navy's Pacific Fleet, but the fleet's aircraft carriers survived to demonstrate that naval aviation was now the dominant factor in the struggle at sea, turning the tide of the Pacific War. That the US Navy had the necessary ships, aircraft and crews was the result of pioneering, far-sighted decisions made in the pre-war years. Before the First World War the navy had recognised the potential of aircraft at sea, and it went on to develop the techniques and equipment that contributed so much to the defeat of the Japanese.. . In a selection of over 200 rare photographs Marriott traces the growth of US naval aviation from the flimsy seaplanes of the first years of the twentieth century to the mighty armadas that challenged those of the Japanese and, after the carrier battles at Coral Sea and Midway, led the advance across the Pacific." Illustrated throughout. Square format. Bibliography. 173 pp. ISBN: 978-1526785398.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.