Escort Carriers in the Pacific

ISBN-13: 9781553693284 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 396 str.

Walter Edward Skeldon

Opis

Escort carriers in The pacific covers the many different and difficult assignments that the CVEs were called upon to perform during WW II. These include;
Transporting replacement aircraft to all pacific ports
Furnishing replacement planes to the fast carriers
Providing ASP/CAP while other CVEs transported panes, aviation stores and aviation gasoline etc, to the fast carriers
Convoy duty / furnishing ASP/CAP to ships in convoy (combat or freighters0
Invasion duty / furnishing ASP/CAP and air support to invading troops-beachheads
Hunter-Killer group / furnishing ASP/CAP to anti-submarine patrol groups.