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The Dawn of Carrier Strike - The World of Lieutenant W P Lucy DSO RN (Hardcover)
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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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