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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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• 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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The men who ventured into the air in the Navy's first aircraft were not onlydaring-they had vision, persistence, and a nearly unlimited determination toconvince the skeptics that their frail kite-like structures could someday possessmilitary value. Wings for the Fleet is the story of their trials, tragedies, andtriumphs. These men patched cooling systems with chewing gum, lived by"crash, repair, and fly again, " but succeeded in developing this new service intoan effective arm of the fleet. Wings for the Fleet, first published in 1966, covers the fascinating details ofthose pioneering days from 1910 to the entry of the United States into WorldWar I. All of the heroic "early birds" are here with full accounts of theirexploits. Admiral van Deurs, himself a naval aviator since the early 1920s, rendered a significant service by his careful preparation of this well-balanced, thoroughly illustrated historical account, which comes complete withappendixes listing early naval aviators and the planes they flew. Over onehundred photographs were selected from official and private sources toillustrate this book.
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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 early years: 1921-1940
• Formation for military service
• the U.S. Naval Academy: 1940-1943
• World War II submariner: 1943-1946
• Formation for the Society of Jesus: 1946-1958
• Fleet ballistic missile submarine chaplain: 1958-1961
• Circuit rider, recruit chaplain, and Alaska pastor: 1961-1966
• Return to the Naval Academy: 1966-1969
• War chaplain
• Vietnam: 1969-1970
• Florida, Hawaii, and New London again: 1970-1976
• Command climax
• Norfolk: 1976-1980
• Jesuit Retreat Master and Pastor: 1981-1988
• Epilogue: Jake Laboon
• the legacy.

• The early years: 1921-1940
• Formation for military service
• the U.S. Naval Academy: 1940-1943
• World War II submariner: 1943-1946
• Formation for the Society of Jesus: 1946-1958
• Fleet ballistic missile submarine chaplain: 1958-1961
• Circuit rider, recruit chaplain, and Alaska pastor: 1961-1966
• Return to the Naval Academy: 1966-1969
• War chaplain
• Vietnam: 1969-1970
• Florida, Hawaii, and New London again: 1970-1976
• Command climax
• Norfolk: 1976-1980
• Jesuit Retreat Master and Pastor: 1981-1988
• Epilogue: Jake Laboon
• the legacy.

• Forty names
• The right to wear the shirt : purpose
• How to swim fifty meters underwater without dying : confidence
• The three-foot world : fear
• The hooded box : stress
• Safe return doubtful : mind-set
• The setup : trust
• After action review : communication
• Shoot, move, and communicate : relationships
• Follow your buddy : accountability
• Comfortable being uncomfortable : discomfort
• Watch the shoes : evolution
• Killing : compartmentalization
• Last stop on the speeding train.

Recounts definitive moments from the author's career as a Navy SEAL, discussing the missions that had the greatest personal meaning for him and explaining the lessons and values he hopes to pass on to the next generation.

• Tables; Figures; Foreword; A Note on the End of an Era; Acknowledgments; Introduction; What Created Success?; Strategic Culture; Relevance of the Study;
• 1. Preparing for War: Naval Education Between the World Wars; Introduction; Studying "The Right Stuff"; Study, Gaming, and Wartime Reality; The Naval Air Debate; The Carrier Debate; The Debate over Doctrine; War Plans; Implications for the War against Japan; Preparing for War; The United States Naval Academy and Strategic Culture; "Everybody Works but John Paul Jones"; Sound Military Decision; Strategic Culture in the Wartime Navy.

• Conclusion2. The Battle of the Coral Sea; Japanese Opening Moves and Plans; Japan's Forces in the Pacific Area; The Situation in the Pacific in the Summer of 1942; Japanese Plans and Preparations; The American Plan; Operational Imperatives; The Tulagi Invasion; Prelude to the Main Action; The Main Action; Coral Sea in Retrospect: Conclusions;
• 3. The Battle of Midway; Opening Phases; The Situation in the Pacific in the Late Spring of 1942; The Commander and His Opponent; Japanese Preparations; Decisions vs. Intelligence; How the Plans Played Out.

• Prelude to Action in the Aleutians and at MidwayInformation Available to the Japanese Commander; Japanese Force Deployments; Information Available to the American Commander; American Command Relations; Aleutian Phase of the Operation; Midway Preliminary Action; Naval Air Station Midway 4 June Operations; Nagumo's Attack on Midway; Midway Carrier Action of 4 June 1942; Clash of Titans; Operations of the Hornet Air Group on 4 June; Operations of the Enterprise Air Group on 4 June; Operations of the Yorktown Air Group on 4 June; Recapping the Action; The Inevitable Japanese Counterattack.

• Death of the Kido ButaiJapan's Contemplated Night Action; Operations of 5 June; Operations of 6 June; Operations of 7 June; Midway in Retrospect: Conclusions;
• 4. The Fight for Guadalcanal: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons; Strategic Reappraisal; The Fight for Guadalcanal; Choosing a Commander; The Battle of Savo Island; Where Is Task Force 61? All the World Wonders; The Battle of the Eastern Solomons; Carrier Battle of 24 August 1942; Retirement from the Area and Aftermath; The Battle of the Eastern Solomons in Retrospect; Conclusions; Epitaph;
• 5. The Battle of Santa Cruz.

• The Battle for GuadalcanalPrelude to the Battle of Santa Cruz; Evidence of a Japanese Offensive; The Battle of Santa Cruz; The U.S. Carrier Strike; The Japanese Strikes; Results of the Battle; Continued Surface Action in the Solomons; Battle of Santa Cruz in Retrospect: Conclusions;
• 6. Battle of the Philippine Sea; Japan's "Absolute National Defense Line"; SLOCs to Victory Secured; MacArthur on a Roll; The U.S. Debate on Strategy; Executing the Combined Chiefs' Strategy; Central Solomons and New Britain: The Second Phase; Numbered Fleets; Operation "Elkton" and the Dual Advance on Rabaul.

A longtime professor at the Naval War College who once directed strategic and long-range planning for the Navy and Marine Corps in Europe considers the transformation of the U.S. Navy from a defensive-minded coastal defense force into an offensive risk-taking navy in the very early stages of World War II. Noting that none of the navy's most significant World War II leaders were commissioned before the Spanish-American War and none participated in any important offensive operations in World War I, Douglas Smith examines the premise that education, rather than experience in battle, accounts for that transformation. In this book, Smith evaluates his premise by focusing on the five carrier battles of the second world war to determine the extent to which the inter-war education of the major operational commanders translated into their decision processes, and the extent to which their interaction during their educational experiences transformed them from risk-adverse to risk-accepting in their operational concepts. His book will interest students of the Pacific War, naval aviation, education, and leadership. About the Author Douglas V. Smith is Professor of Strategy and Head of the Strategy and Policy Division at the U.S. Naval War College. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Naval Postgraduate School, and Naval War College, and holds a Ph.D. in military history from Florida State University.
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• Emergence of naval aviation
• Naval aviation conception and birth: 1898-1912
• Development and growth: 1913-1919
• First transatlantic flight NC flying boats--design and assembly: 1918
• First transatlantic flight NC flying boats shakedown: 1918-1919
• First transatlantic flight: 1919
• Evolving the naval aviation test organization: 1913-1926
• Marine Corps aviation and Coast Guard aviation develop to support their service missions: 1917-1938
• Catapults and aircraft carriers: 1917-1926
• Years of technical advancement and growth: 1930-1935
• A new Treasury Secretary expands aviation missions: 1934-1938
• Appendices
• A. Time line of events (1776-1938)
• B. Technology inspired by the first transatlantic flight: 1919-1938
• C. List of acronyms, abbreviations, and rank structures
• Photographs and document credits.

A single comprehensive volume telling the history of early Naval Aviation; Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard This unified history of all naval aviators describes the interrelationship and mutual support of the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. Before 1920, the Marine Corps and Coast Guard did not own aircraft; the three sea service's aviators flew Navy aircraft on Navy missions from Navy ships and Navy Air Stations, commanded by Navy and Coast Guard aviators. It was during this unique time that the bond between them was born. This book was born of the frustration of looking for an answer and not finding it; or finding, after a long search, an answer so elementary as to be inadequate. Few, if any, books are written with balanced coverage about sea service events and people living from the beginning of the twentieth century through the volatile times of World War I and aviation's rapid advancement to 1938. The book is documented with 427 endnotes, and features 281 vintage aviation photographic images and a nautical chart of historical note embedded within its text. This balance of photographs and endnote documentation provides both a visual and written history that will come alive for the reader, who will learn that enormous creativity was involved in the birth, development and advancement of Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard air forces and their aircrew's capabilities.
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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.

• Chalk One
• Green team
• Top five/Bottom five
• The second deck
• Delta
• Point man
• Maersk Alabama
• The long war
• Goat trails
• Something special in D.C.
• The pacer
• Killing time
• Go day
• Infil
• Khalid
• Third deck
• Geronimo
• Exfil
• Confirmation
• Touch the magic
• Epilogue.

Writing under a pseudonym to protect his anonymity, a member of the elite SEAL Team Six provides a behind-the-scenes, first-person account of all his dangerous assignments around the globe, including the training, planning and execution of his most important mission-the killing of Osama bin Laden, during which he witnessed the final moments of the terrorist's life.

For the first time ever, a Navy SEAL Team Six sniper chronicles how he became an elite warrior and the ferocious battle that nearly cost him his life.

Within six months of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. navy had slowed the empire's military advance in the Pacific so much that the United States could return to its original "Germany First" strategy. That the navy was able to accomplish this feat with only six fleet aircraft carriers and a little more than 1,000 combat aircraft was the culmination of more than two decades of determined preparation. This thorough study summarizes the factors critical in shaping naval aviation after World War I, including naval treaties, fleet tactics, government programs, leadership and organization, and the emergence of Marine Corps and Coast Guard aviation. Detailed technical drawings of individual aircrafts, airships, and ship development illustrate the 22-year process of trial and error that ultimately enabled U.S. naval aviation to prevail during the early months of World War II.
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• Introduction
• The experimental era : U.S. Navy aviation before 1916
• Eyes of the fleet : how flying boats transformed War Plan Orange
• Ships in the sky
• Big guns versus wooden decks : naval aviation officer personnel, 1911-1941
• Admiral Joseph Mason "Bull" Reeves, father of navy carrier aviation
• Aviation in the interwar fleet maneuvers, 1919-1940
• The two-ocean Navy Act of 1940 : the impact on American preparedness for World War II
• U.S. aircraft carrier evolution, 1911-1945
• Foundation for victory : U.S. Navy aircraft development, 1922-1945
• Straight up : vertical flight in the U.S. Navy
• The transition to swept-wing jets
• Naval aviation in the Korean and Vietnam wars
• By land and sea : non-carrier naval aviation
• U.S. aircraft carrier evolution : 1945-2011
• Conclusions.

Published to coincide with the centennial celebration of U.S. Navy Aviation, this book chronicles Navy aviation from its earliest days, before the Navy's first aircraft carrier joined the fleet, through the modern jet era marked by the introduction of the F-18 Hornet. It tells how naval aviation got its start, profiles its pioneers, and explains the early bureaucracy that fostered and sometimes inhibited its growth. The book then turns to the refinement of carrier aviation doctrine and tactics and the rapid development of aircraft and carriers, highlighting the transition from propeller-driven aircraft to swept wing jets in the period after WW II. Land-based Navy aircraft, rotary-wing aircraft and rigid airships, and balloons are also considered in this sweeping tribute.
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