How Carriers Fought: Carrier Operations in WWⅡ

摘要

A dominating myth about twentieth-century naval power involves the WWII-era rise to supremacy of the aircraft carrier at the expense of the battleship-and the presumptively shortsighted and obtusely tradition-bound naval brass who long refused to realize the obvious lessons first imparted by Billy Mitchell in his 1921 aerial bombing demonstration against a stationary and defenseless German prize-turned-naval-target. Lars Celander's work forms a concise yet detailed antidote to such assumptions.