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"This is the story of the first women naval aviators and their struggles and triumphs as they earned their Wings of Gold, learned to fly increasingly sophisticated jet fighters and helicopters, mastered aircraft carrier landings, served at sea, and reached heights of command that would have been unthinkable less than a generation before. It is also the story of the legacy they left behind"-- Provided by publisher

Among all the celebrations of the RAF's centenary, it was largely forgotten that the establishment of an independent air force came at a cost - and it was the Royal Navy that paid the price. In 1918 it had been pre-eminent in the technology and tactics of employing aircraft at sea, but once it lost control of its own air power, it struggled to make the RAF prioritise naval interests, in the process losing ground to the rival naval air forces of Japan and the United States. This book documents that struggle through the cash-strapped 1920s and '30s, culminating in the Navy regaining control of its aviation in 1937, but too late to properly prepare for the impending war. However, despite the lack of resources, British naval flying had made progress, especially in the advancement of carrier strike doctrine. These developments are neatly illustrated by the experiences of Lieutenant William Lucy, who was to become Britain's first accredited air 'ace' of the war and to lead the world's first successful dive-bombing of a major warship. Making extensive use of the family archive, this book also reproduces many previously unseen photographs from Lucy's album, showing many aspects of life in the Fleet Air Arm up to the end of the Norway campaign. Although it is beyond the scope of this book, in November 1940 the inter-war concentration on carrier strike was to be spectacularly vindicated by the air attack on the Italian fleet at Taranto - it inspired the Japanese to a far larger effort at Pearl Harbor the following year, but the Royal Navy had shown the way.
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• Wiley: the early years
• The road to Lakehurst
• The USS Shenandoah (ZR 1)
• The USS Los Angeles (ZR 3)
• The Shenandoah Disaster
• Changes in command
• Commanding the Los Angeles
• The USS Tennessee (BB 43)
• The USS Akron (ZRS 4)
• The crash of the Akron
• Aftermath of the Akron
• The USS Macon (ZRS 5)
• The end of an era
• USS Sirius (AK 15), Hell Gate, and helium
• War and battleships
• Kamikazes and beyond

This book is simultaneously a biography of Admiral Herbert Victor Wiley and a history of the U.S. Navy's lighter-than-air program. As tensions rose between Japan and the U.S. over control of East Asia and the Pacific Ocean the prospects of war between the two nations increased. The Navy tracked the Germans' use of zeppelins during the First World War and saw in them an aircraft with the potential to conduct long-range reconnaissance over the oceans - something that could not be achieved by airplanes or surface ships. While rapid progress was being made in manned flight it was still young enough that the future of LTA vs. HTA flight was unknown. At the time however airships had a much greater range than airplanes making them suitable for reconnaissance. In its history the Navy had four great airships - the U.S.S. Shenandoah the U.S.S. Los Angeles the U.S.S. Akron and the U.S.S. Macon. Wiley served on all four of these airships and the history of these vessels is covered through the career of Wiley. Three of the airships ended in disaster and Wiley survived the crash of two of them. The book explores in detail the events leading to the crash of each airship through examination of the records of the Navy's Courts of Inquiry that investigated the cause of each crash. The book also tracks issues surrounding the use of non-flammable helium as a lifting gas instead of highly explosive hydrogen used by the Germans. The U.S. had a monopoly on the supply of helium. While Germany sought to purchase helium from the U.S. the government board governing the sale of helium blocked is availability to Germany on the basis it might be used for wartime purposes. Dr. Hugo Eckener had run the Zeppelin works in Friedrichshaven since the end of WWI and he had a vision for LTA flight that was peaceful including international transoceanic passenger and freight services. The outbreak of WW II ended the zeppeling industry and dashed all of Eckener's dreams. Following the crash of the Macon Wiley returned to the surface fleet eventually becoming Commander of Destroyer Squadron 29 in the Asiatic Fleet shortly before the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
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• Introduction
• Chapter 1: The dawn of the era of flight and the formation of the RFC/RNAS, from its inception until the end of 1915.
• Chapter 2: The dawn of the era of flight and the formation of the imperial German Naval Air Service, from its inception until the end of 1915.
• Chapter 3: RNAS development and the challenges from within and without, leading to the formation of the RAF, 1916-1918.
• Chapter 4: IGNAS development and the challenges from within, 1916-1918.
• Chapter 5: Conclusion.
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This book examines the British and German approach to naval air power, describing the creation and development of the two naval air service organizations and doctrine. This work provides new insights as to how two naval air services were influenced by internal and political interventions, and how each was integrated into the organizational structures of the Royal Navy and the Kaiserlichemarine (KM). Both the Admiralty and the KM made substantial alterations to their organizations and doctrine in the process. Principal air doctrines employed are examined chronologically and the application of operational doctrine is described. While they adopted similar air doctrines, there were differences in operational doctrine, which they addressed according to their different requirements. This book is a comparative study about the development of organization and air power doctrine in the RNAS (Royal Naval Air Service) and the IGNAS (Imperial German Naval Air Service). It investigates public and political interventions and early concepts of air power, placing into context the factors which contributed to how naval theorists came to think about the best means of controlling its working medium, air space. Ultimately, it examines the similarities, and differences, between the RNAS and IGNAS understanding of naval air power, within the broader strategic and theoretical framework of their parent organizations. This book will be of great interest to students of air power, naval power, military history, strategic studies and IR in general.
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This book covers the history of the U.S. Coast Guard from 1790 under Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, when the Service was called the U.S. Revenue Marine, to World War I, during which the naval agency, then called the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service, was combined with the U.S. Life-Saving Service to form the U.S. Coast Guard in 1915. The Coast Guard has historically served with or under the U.S. Navy in national defense missions. The maritime conflicts in that time frame include a war with France; War of 1812-1815; clashes with pirates, slave ships, and the Seminole Indians; War with Mexico; the Civil War of 1861-1865); Spanish-American War (1898); and World War I (1914-1918). The Great War involved the USCG and USN in domestic and maritime missions across the Atlantic to Europe, merchant ship convoy escorts, and anti-submarine warfare. The naval period surveys the evolution of wooden hulled, wind powered sailing ships to fuel powered iron hulled vessels. The historical geography of the wars is illustrated with maps created by retired IBM engineer and military historian David H. Allen.
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• Preface: A most remarkable story
• Black as midnight
• Difficult days: a soaring mishap rate
• The competition: American aviation overall
• Beginning to get it right
• Naval aviation's transition to jets
• Aircraft carriers: changes and modifications
• Beyond jets and aircraft carriers
• The catalyst for improvement: the Naval Safety Center
• Six amazing years: RAGS, NATOPS, and more
• The doc: aerospace medicine
• flight surgeons and more
• Discovering human factors
• Naval aviation maintenance and supply
• The underappreciated: aircraft, aircraft systems, and design safety
• Making believe: simulators and synthetic trainers
• On to the twenty-first century: ORM, CRM, and culture workshops
• Success: Summary and conclusions
• Afterword
• Appendix 1: Marine aviation
• Appendix 2: Naval Safety Center yearly major mishap statistics
• Appendix 3: Navy and Marine accident reporting classifications
• Appendix 4: Aviation-oriented safety center publications
• Appendix 5: Principal carrier alterations
• Appendix 6: Typical straight-deck carrier landing pattern
• Chronology
• Glossary.

Less than five years after Naval Aviation led the forces that defeated Imperial Japan that very organization was in serious trouble. The force had been drastically reduced and, despite the Korean War, growing sentiment supported by no less than the chairman of the Joint Chiefs argued that the new Air Force could do anything Naval Aviation might be required to do. Meanwhile, the Naval Aviation mishap rate soared. The very survival of Naval Aviation was at stake. It took fifty years to turn this around. Today, in spite of hot wars, cold wars, contingencies, and peacetime operations in support of friends and allies, the Navy and Marine Corps accident rate is at least as good as that of the Air Force, and it approaches that of commercial aviation. Gear Up, Mishaps Down explains that this accomplishment was achieved through dedicated and professional leadership, a focus on lessons learned from mishaps and near-mishaps, a willingness to learn from other enterprises, and by training, maintenance, supply and more.
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• Establishing an air station
• The USS Shenandoah and the early years
• The USS Los Angeles: training and experimentation
• The USS Akron and USS Macon
• Lakehurst: international airport
• Preparations for war
• The war years
• Postwar progress
• End of the program
• Afterword
• Appendixes
• A. Commanding officers, NAS Lakehurst (1921-62)
• B. Performance and other data for U.S. Navy airships (1915-61)
• U.S. Navy lighter-than-air headquarters and facilities, Second World War
• Memorandum on status of lighter-than-air
• E. Postwar airship deliveries to the U.S. Navy
• F. Last airships in the U.S. Navy aircraft inventory.

Originally published in 1990, Sky Ships is easily the most comprehensive history of U.S. Navy airships ever written. The Naval Institute Press is releasing this new edition - complete with two hundred new photographs--to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the book's publication. Impressed by Germany's commercial and military Zeppelins, the United States initiated its own airship program in 1915. Naval Air Station Lakehurst in New Jersey was homeport for several of the largest machines ever to navigate the air. The success of the commercial rigid airship peaked in 1936 with transatlantic round trips between Central Europe and the Americas by Hindenburg and by Graf Zeppelin - ending with the infamous fire in 1937. That setback, the onset of war, and the accelerated progress of heavier-than-air technology ended rigid airship development. The Navy continued to use blimps to protect Allied shipping during World War II. Following the war, the Navy persisted with efforts to integrate the airships, but the program was finally discontinued in the early 1960s.
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• "Smedley Butler's air corps: the first Marine aviators in China" / Gabrielle M. Neufeld and James S. Santelli
• "The genesis of air support in guerrilla operations" / General Vernon E. Megee, USMC (Ret.)
• "Ace in a day" / Lieutenant Commander Thomas J. Cutler, USN (Ret.)
• "Marine Corps aviation, an infantryman's opinion" / Major J.N. Rentz, USMCR
• "Right on the button: Marine Corps close air support in Korea" / Admiral John S. Thach, USN (Ret.)
• "Marine aviation in Vietnam, 1962-1970" / Lieutenant General Keith B. McCutcheon, USMC
• "Marine air operations in Northern Europe" / Major Robert J. O'Rourke, USMC
• "Stop quibbling and win the war" / Major John E. Valliere, USAF
• "Who really needs Marine TacAir?" / Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Linn, USMC.

The U.S. Naval Institute Chronicles series focuses on the relevance of history by exploring topics like significant battles, personalities, and service components. Tapping into the U.S. Naval Institute's robust archives, these carefully selected volumes help readers understand nuanced subjects by providing unique perspectives and some of the best contributions that have helped shape naval thinking over the many decades since the Institute's founding in 1873. Famous as "boots on the ground, " U.S. Marines have long played a vital role in the air as well. In these pages, readers will find both history and analysis as Naval Institute authors record and assess this lesser-known but significant aspect of "Leatherneck" combat over the last century.
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• Send me a hero
• Lessons from the brotherhood
• How to be brave
• How to kill right
• Leadership secrets of the SEALs
• Why we fight
• Everyone must serve
• Bridging the military-civilian divide
• The debt we owe our warriors
• United we stand.

"A Navy SEAL commander explores the practical and philosophical questions of heroic service that have emerged about America's past decade at war, from the qualities of heroes and the reasons we fight to how war impacts families and whether or not soldiers can be held accountable for wartime actions, "--NoveList.

• The Beginning
• Naval Air Combat in the First World War
• Manipulation and Muddle
• Recovery, 1930-1940
• The Operational Environment in the Second World War
• Types of Naval Aircraft and Combat Operations
• Penguinisms
• A Characteristic Penguin
• The Penguin Background
• Development of Carrier Operations
• Palembang : Meridian 1 and 2
• Operations Iceberg 1 and 2
• Assault on the Mainland of Japan

Known in naval slang as 'sin-bosuns', chaplains have served as an integral part of the Royal Australian Navy for a century. From Keith Mathieson, who supported his shipmates in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, to the first Australian navy chaplain to be killed in active service, George Stubbs on HMAS Sydney, this book profiles chaplains serving at sea and in naval establishments, both in war and peace. Rowan Strong examines the chaplains' role as religious ministers, counsellors, and clergy prepared to challenge naval culture from a religious standpoint. He also looks at the forces of change, including denominational rivalry and cooperation, tensions between religious and military roles, and shifts in Australian society. Royal Australian Navy chaplains have sought to serve both God and country; this book reveals the difficulties and successes of that task.
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• Introduction
• An Analysis of Cost Adjustment Sheets
• Differences Between Budgets and Expenditures
• Expenditures-per-Flying-Hour Growth by T/M/S
• Conclusions.

The RAND research team focused on Cost Adjustment Sheets (CASs) and their role in the Navy's Flying Hour Program (FHP) budgeting process. In recent years, most CASs have increased the FHP budget. In addition, CASs have been far more utilized by the F/A-18 program than by program offices for most other types of naval aircraft. RAND assessed the contribution of CASs to the accuracy of FHP budgets and whether CAS usage is correlated with expenditure-per-flying-hour growth. RAND also examined why CASs have been used more heavily by the F/A-18 program.

• Contents: Introduction: British naval aviation: the first 100 years, Tim Benbow
• Seamen or airmen? The early days of British naval flying, Eric Grove
• Air force, Fleet Air Arm - or armoured corps? The Royal Naval Air Service at war, Eric Grove
• Competing visions: the Admiralty, the Air Ministry and the role of air power, Geoffrey Till
• The Fleet Air Arm and the struggle for the Mediterranean, 1940-44, Ben Jones
• New tricks for the old sea dogs: British naval aviation in the Pacific, 1944-45, Jon Robb-Webb
• British naval aviation and the 'radical review', 1953-55, Tim Benbow
• Limited war and crisis management: naval aviation in action from the Korean War to the Falklands conflict, Ian Speller
• The battle for CVA01, Edward Hampshire
• 'More than just spare airfields': defence policy, defence reviews and the Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers, Lee Willett
• Index.
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In 1909 the British Admiralty placed an order for a rigid airship, marking the beginning of the Royal Navy's involvement with airpower. This collection charts the Navy's involvement with aviation over the following century, and the ways in which its rapid expansion and evolution radically altered the nature of maritime power and naval strategy. Drawing on much new historical research, the collection takes a broadly chronological approach which allows a scholarly examination of key themes from across the history of British naval aviation. The subjects tackled include long-standing controversies over the control of naval air power, crucial turning points within British defence policy and strategy, the role of naval aviation in limited war, and discussion of campaigns - such the contribution of the Fleet Air Arm in the Mediterranean and Pacific theatres of the Second World War - that have hitherto received relatively little attention. The collection concludes with a discussion of recent debates surrounding the Royal Navy's acquisition of a new generation of carriers, setting the arguments within an historical context. Taken as a whole the volume offers fascinating insights into the development of a key aspect of naval power as well as shedding new light on one of the most important aspects of Britain's defence policy and military history. By simultaneous addressing historical and current political debates, it is sure to find a ready audience and stimulate further discussion.
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Brian Allen first went to sea as a naval aviation officer cadet aboard HMS Indefatigable in 1952 , bound for Gibraltar. In 1954 he was appointed to Lossiemouth for fighter training and flew the Vampire T22. In December 1955 Brian joined 737 Squadron where he was attached to the Anti-Submarine Training Course flying the Fairey Barracuda. On completion he was destined to fly the then new Fairey Gannet twin turbo prop anti-submarine aircraft. July 1955, and now with 825 Squadron, saw his introduction of the new aircraft, a very different machine to the Barracuda.The Squadron joined HMS Albion on 10 January 1956, as she preceded down Channel in the company of her sister ship HMS Centaur, outwards bound for the Far East. After this tour was completed 825 Squadron was disbanded and Brian was transferred to 751 Squadron aboard HMS Warrior, an old WWII carrier with none of the latest facilities of his previous ship and on its final commission. However, his greatest shock was to discover that he would not be flying a Gannet, but the rather elderly Grumman Avenger, a very different aeroplane with a tail wheel and a piston engine. This would require a great change in take-off and landing technique. In February 1957 Warrior sailed west for the Panama Canal and thence into the Pacific where she and her aircraft would assist in Operation Grapple, the tests of Britain's first atomic bombs. During this operation Brian's adventures included dislodging the padre's kidney stone upon a catapult launch, denting the flight deck by a heavy landing and ditching close to the beach after an engine failure. Having converted to helicopters Brian was posted to 815 Squadron aboard HMS Albion in 1960 flying the Whirlwind Mk 7. During this posting he survived another ditching when his helicopter lost power and sunk. Having returned from a long Far Eastern voyage, Brian was now posted into The Helicopter Trials and Development Unit and it was whilst experimenting in a prototype Wasp that an accident, in which his crewman perished, was to injure him so severely that he was unable to fly again. He completed his commission as an Air Traffic Control Officer.Brian is now retired and lives in Cornwall.
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C4I systems have evolved rapidly over the last few decades, and the cost of keeping these products up-to-date on new and in-service U.S. Navy ships is high due to configuration, integration, testing, and other challenges. Looking across a specific set of completed C4I upgrades, the authors found evidence of cost improvement, a high level of variability in costs, and a trend toward overestimating the installation-labor costs of certain upgrades.

• Part I: Beginnings (1812-1821)
• Social conditions and disease prevention in early nineteenth century Britain
• Britain's major maritime organisations, shipyards, and London's docks
• Conditions of service in the mercantile organisations
• Diseases afflicting sailors before 1821
• The SHS's precursor: early meetings aimed at London's homeless: 'Most of the destitutes seem to be sailors'
• 'This laudable institution': the permanent society is launched in 1821
• Part II: The days of the hospital-ships (1821-1870)
• John Lydekker (1778-1832): a benefaction leading to the Act of Incorporation, and other fund-raising initiatives
• The hospital-ships
• Conditions of service on the hospital-ships
• Fundraising in the days of the ships
• Diseases on the hospital-ships
• Administrators, physicians and surgeons who served during the ship era
• Part III: The SHS in 'full swing' (1870-1939)
• Transfer of facilities to the infirmary of the Royal Hospital, Greenwich - in 1870
• Expansion of facilities - at the Dreadnought, and further afield
• The society's expanding staff - 1870-1914
• Diseases encountered by the Society 1870-1914
• Nursing and nurse-training at the Dreadnought and AHD: establishment of a school on Nightingale lines
• Genesis of the first school for tropical diseases - at the ADH
• The London School of Clinical Medicine (1906-14), and structural changes to the Dreadnought Hospital
• Part IV: (1914-2006) Two world wars, introduction of the National Health Service, and insidious decline of the society
• The Great War (1914-18)
• the inter-war years
• and several new facilities
• Staffing during the Great War and inter-war years
• The Second World War (1939-45): introduction of the National Health Service (1948)
• and decline in the Society's activities
• Disease(s) at the society's hospitals ain the latter years of the twentieth century
• The society's staff in recent times
• The society (and its tropical medicine component) in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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In this unique, highly detailed examination, Gordon C Cook explores disease in the merchant navy through the history of the Seamen's Hospital Society. From its foundation in 1812, until the present day, the Seamen's Hospital Society has been responsible for the physical welfare of merchant seamen and has headed many remarkable advances in medical science. This handsome volume is ideal for all those with an interest in the Seamen's Hospital Society, medical and naval historians, and general readers with an interest in maritime and naval history.
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Explores acceleration of the pace at which the U.S. Coast Guard can acquire surface and air assets that it will operate in the deepwater environment (50 or more nautical miles from shore) and whether the original Integrated Deepwater System program to modernize its aging cutters and aircraft will provide the Coast Guard with a force structure to meet the demands of its traditional missions and emerging responsibilities. 450-character abstract: Explores whether the pace at which the U.S. Coast Guard can acquire surface and air assets that it will operate in the deepwater environment (50 or more nautical miles from shore) can be accelerated and whether the original Integrated Deepwater System program to modernize its aging ships and aircraft will provide the Coast Guard with a force structure to meet the demands of its traditional missions and emerging responsibilities as part of the new Department of Homeland Security.
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• LZ-126 : birthplace Friedrichshafen
• ZR-3 : homeport Lakehurst
• Balloons and billets : lighter-than-air training
• Rosendahl's reign
• Testbed for the new ships
• Grounded.

In September 1955, Navy Lieutenant Commander Grover B. Windham and a crew of eight flew out of Guantanamo Bay into the eye of Hurricane Janet - a routine weather reconnaissance mission from which they never returned. In the wake of World War II, the Air Force and the Navy discovered new civilian arenas where pilots could test their courage and skill - weather reconnaissance was one of them. Hurricane hunters flew into raging storms to gauge their strength and predict their paths. Without the modern technology of the 21st century they relied on rudimentary radar systems to locate the hurricane's eye and estimated the drift of their aircraft by looking at the windblown waves below. Drawing from Navy documents and interviews with members of the squadron and relatives of the crew, this book reconstructs the ill-fated mission, from preflight checks to the moment of their final transmission.
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With the advent of the atomic bomb in 1945 and its impact on strategic thinking, the future of naval aviation looked bleak. Rapid demobilization after the war eliminated many carriers, and most policy makers believed that future wars would be fought with nuclear weapons delivered by land-based aircraft. In "Nuclear Weapons and Aircraft Carriers", Jerry Miller traces the struggle of respected naval leaders to promote a different vision and the innovations in the design and engineering of carriers and aircraft that resulted. He argues that the Navy's hard-won nuclear capability played a significant role in ending the Cold War.
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A pictorial account of the changing role of US naval aircraft since the end of World War II - from protector of the United States forces and symbol of American power throughout the world to international avenger and peacekeeper. Focusing on the aircraft and the personnel who fly and service them, the book features a range of different aircraft types - from the FD-2 Phantom (the first US pure jet to land aboard an aircraft carrier) to the F-14 Tomcat and F/A-18 Hornet heavy carrier-based fighters of the 1990s. US maritime power has its beginnings in the Pacific between 1941 and 1945, when carrier-borne aircraft won overwhelming victories against the Imperial Japanese Navy at Guadalcanal, the Marianas, and Okinawa - all but erasing the black memory of Pearl Harbour. Post-war, America benefited greatly from German wartime aeronautical research and British developments in jet engine and carrier technology. As the Cold War intensified, America could not afford to lag behind, especially when the uneasy peace in Korea was shattered in 1950 and American aircraft were confronted with the MiG-15 for the first time. This gave rise to the development of supersonic fighter planes, such as the A-4 Skyhawk, used in the controversial bombing campaigns against North Vietnam in the late '60s and early '70s. By the mid-1980s, US naval carrier-based aircraft proved a very efficient avenger - and deterrent - in the fight against international terrorism. Most recently, during the Gulf War of 1991, naval units at sea joined forces with the land-based strike aircraft in Operation "Desert Storm", when the US Navy averaged 125-150 sorties per day per carrier. This text contains more than 200 photographs from official US Navy archives and private collections - many of which are previously unpublished.
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A history of the development of medical treatment and professionalization in the early US Navy. This study traces the evolution of medical practice in the Navy from the time of the first frigates in 1794 to the establishment of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in the Navy Department in 1842. The book describes the role of the naval doctor and examines the influence of health on readiness, morale, promotions and retention.
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In this first detailed history of the development of medical treatment and professionalization in the early U.S. Navy, Harold Langley traces the evolution of medical practice in the Navy from the time Congress authorized the building of the first frigates in 1794, to the establishment of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in the Navy Department in 1842. Langley reveals that the earliest federal efforts to deal with sailors' health care problems were seriously flawed. The early hospital system was poorly funded, sailors' contributions were misappropriated, and the hospitals themselves were often administered in a shameful fashion. At the same time, medical officers commanded little respect from their naval colleagues, who rarely considered medical men to be "real officers". In the first half of the nineteenth century, legal and administrative changes significantly improved the lot of medical officers and of the men under their care. Langley shows how these changes helped to shape health care in the later U.S. Navy. He also offers detailed descriptions of just what the naval doctor did, and examines the influence of health on readiness, morale, promotions, and retention.
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• Figures
• photos
• maps
• the actor and the admirals
• the countermeasures programme
• the sounds of deception
• beach jumper training - camp Bradford and Ocracoke
• first assignment - operation Husky
• island diversions and special operations
• beach jumpers in the MTO - Act Two
• Adriatic interlude
• ringing down the curtain in the MTO
• the RCM picture in the Pacific
• Tayabas Bay finale
• beach jumpers redux
• practicing to deceive
• electronic warriors ashore and afloat in Vietnam
• naval cover and deception in the post-Vietnam era
• glossary
• selected bibliography
• index.
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This book looks at the history of the trained officers and men who went by the cover name "Beach Jumpers". Their top-secret mission was to create and sustain the illusion that a military landing was imminent at Beach "A" when in fact US/Allied troops would hit the beaches 100 miles away at Beach "X". During World War II their tactics were extremely successful in Sicily, Salerno, Southern France and the Philippines. Beach Jumpers later served ashore and afloat in Vietnam. Their descendents, called "Fleet Tactical Deception Groups", continue their classified work today. This book details the development, major operations, weapons and leaders of the group. The Beach Jumpers began as a naval task group under the direct control of the fleet commander and consisted of specialists, officers and men, trained to conduct tactical cover and deception missions, to include radio and radar countermeasures.
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• v.
• 1. Careers of US naval aviators assigned numbers 1 to 2000.