USS Intrepid (CV 11)
Author | : Robert F. Sumrall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1989 |
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ISBN | : 9780929521206 |
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Author | : Robert F. Sumrall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1989 |
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ISBN | : 9780929521206 |
Author | : David Doyle |
Publisher | : Schiffer Military History |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2022-05-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780764363573 |
A visual history of USS Intrepid, one of the most visited museum ships in the world.
Author | : Bill White |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2009-09-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0767929985 |
The first official history of the legendary aircraft carrier that fought in World War II and Vietnam and continues to serve as a major air and space museum in New York City The USS Intrepid is a warship unlike any other. Since her launching in 1943, the 27,000-ton, Essex-class aircraft carrier has sailed into harm’s way around the globe. During World War II, she fought her way across the Pacific—Kwajalein, Truk, Peleliu, Formosa, the Philippines, Okinawa—surviving kamikaze and torpedo attacks and covering herself with glory. The famous ship endured to become a Cold War attack carrier, recovery ship for America’s first astronauts, and a three-tour combatant in Vietnam. In a riveting narrative based on archival research and interviews with surviving crewmen, authors Bill White and Robert Gandt take us inside the war in the Pacific. We join Intrepid’s airmen at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, in October 1944, as they gaze in awe at the apparitions beneath them: five Japanese battleships, including the dreadnoughts Yamato and Musashi, plus a fleet of heavily armored cruisers and destroyers. The sky fills with multihued bursts of anti-aircraft fire. The flak, a Helldiver pilot would write in his action report, “was so thick you could get out and walk on it.” Half a dozen Intrepid aircraft are blown from the sky, but they sink the Musashi. A few months later, off Okinawa, they again meet her sister ship, the mighty Yamato. In a two-hour tableau of hellfire and towering explosions, Intrepid’s warplanes help send the super-battleship and 3,000 Japanese crewmen to the bottom of the sea. We’re next to nineteen-year-old Alonzo Swann in Gun Tub 10 aboard Intrepid as he peers over the breech of a 20-mm anti-aircraft gun. He’s heard of kamikazes, but until today he’s never seen one. Swann and his fellow gunners are among the few African Americans assigned to combat duty in the U.S. Navy of 1944. Blazing away at the diving Japanese Zero, Swann realizes with a dreadful certainty where it will strike: directly into Gun Tub 10. The authors follow Intrepid’s journey to Vietnam. “MiG-21 high!” crackles the voice of Lt. Tony Nargi in his F-8 Crusader. It is 1968, and Intrepid is again at war. Launching from Yankee Station in the Tonkin Gulf, Nargi and his wingman have intercepted a flight of Russian-built supersonic fighters. Minutes later, after a swirling dogfight over North Vietnam, Nargi—and Intrepid—have added another downed enemy airplane to their credit. Intrepid: The Epic Story of America’s Most Legendary Warship brings a renowned ship to life in a stirring tribute complete with the personal recollections of those who served aboard her, dramatic photographs, time lines, maps, and vivid descriptions of Intrepid’s deadly conflicts. More than a numbers-and-dates narrative, Intrepid is the story of people—those who sailed in her, fought to keep her alive, perished in her defense—and powerfully captures the human element in this saga of American heroism.
Author | : Military Lovers Journal |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2018-05-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781719100199 |
Journals are great for writing down ideas, taking notes, writing about travels and adventures, describing good and bad times. Writing down your thoughts and ideas is a great way to relieve stress. Journals are good for the soul!
Author | : T. H. E. THE MUSEUM |
Publisher | : Osprey Publishing (UK) |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2013-09-17 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781849087193 |
The Essex-class aircraft carrier Intrepid (CV-11) is an iconic American naval vessel and a National Historic Landmark. Intrepid was built to defeat the Empire of Japan, but frequent overhauls and refits extended her service through the Cold War, the Space Race, and the Vietnam War. Her contributions to history are ultimately stories of technological innovation and human achievement under extraordinary circumstances. USS Intrepid: The Humanity Behind the Hardware illuminates the experiences of the 50,000 men who served aboard Intrepid during her three-decade career in the U.S. Navy. The book seeks to create a personal connection between readers and the men who lived and worked aboard the ship from 1943 through 1974. The text is organized thematically, with each chapter dedicated to a group of men who comprised the ship's crew: aviators, officers, enlisted sailors, and Marines. USS Intrepid: Humanity behind the Hardware will be richly illustrated with material from the Museum's collections. In addition to historic photographs, artifacts, and archival materials such as diaries, division patches, the ship's newspapers and other items will paint a detailed picture of life aboard the ship. Contemporary photographs of the ship's restored historic spaces--workspaces, mess deck, and sleeping quarters--will reveal the actual environments where these men lived and worked.
Author | : Intrepid (Aircraft carrier : CVS-11) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1954* |
Genre | : Aircraft carriers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Roberts |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2004-02 |
Genre | : Aircraft carriers |
ISBN | : 9780851779669 |
The Essex class fleet aircraft carriers are famous for their effectiveness and reliability as warships and for the great size of the construction programmes of which they formed a part. Intrepid (CV11) was one of 24 such vessels built during and after World War II, the largest class of fleet carriers ever constructed. Carrying 90 aircraft each, they formed the main air strength and striking power of the US Pacific Fleet against the Japanese during 1943-45. both the conventional type of plan and explanatory views are provided, with fully descriptive keys. These are supported by technical details and a record of the ship's service history.
Author | : Intrepid (Aircraft carrier) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1972* |
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ISBN | : |
Author | : James H. Belote |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Two naval historians follow carrier warfare in the Pacific through Coral Sea, Midway, Easter Solomons, Santa Cruz and the climatic Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 1944.
Author | : Angus Konstam |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 2012-12-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1782008411 |
With war against Germany looming, Britain pushed forward its carrier program in the late 1930s. In 1938, the Royal Navy launched the HMS Ark Royal, its first-ever purpose-built aircraft carrier. This was quickly followed by others, including the highly-successful Illustrious class. Smaller and tougher than their American cousins, the British carriers were designed to fight in the tight confines of the North Sea and the Mediterranean. Over the next six years, these carriers battled the Axis powers in every theatre, attacking Italian naval bases, hunting the Bismark, and even joining the fight in the Pacific. This book tells the story of the small, but resilient, carriers and the crucial role they played in the British war effort.