Rear Admiral Herbert V. Wiley, U.S. Navy: A Career in Airships and Battleships
(Part of the History of Military Aviation Series)
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1682473171
ISBN13:9781682473177
Release Date:September 2019
Publisher:US Naval Institute Press
Length:352 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 6.0" x 9.1"
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