1954 Fleet Air Arm book British Navy HB/DJ - P. K. Kemp

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Item Description: I am selling the book FLEET AIR ARM by Lieut-Comdr. P. K. Kemp, copyright 1954. The book's Foreword is by Admiral of the Fleet Sir Philip L. Vian. This is a Second Impression. The book measures approximately 5-1/2" x 9" and is 232 pages long. The hardbound book is in good condition. The dust jacket has shelf wear on the edges and a small tear on the front cover's upper edge. A price is written (in ink) on the dust jacket's front folding flap. This volume was published by Herbert Jenkins in the UK. Black-and-white photo sections illustrate the text. <P>From its first tentative beginnings, the Fleet Air Arm has grown in importance until now it has become the dominating factor in naval warfare. During the war years of 1914-1918, it was a virile infant of infinite promise; the next twenty years saw it grow in strength and stamina, so that when, in 1939, it again took to the air in anger, it did so as a mature and immensely powerful weapon capable of playiing a vital and decisive part in victory at sea. <P>This is the story of the Fleet Air Arm from its earliest days to the 1914 raids on the Zeppelin sheds at Friedrichshaven (when a 25-lb bomb was a big one); to the first aerial torpedo attacks on shipping in the Sea of Marmora; to the epic battles of the Second World War -- the raid on the Italian fleet at Taranto, the crippling of the German battleship Bismarck, the Russian and Malta convoys and the non-stop attacks on Japanese outposts in the Pacific. <P>It is a record of epic achievement, revealing the rise of naval aviation as one of the milestones of British sea history, the latest chapter in the naval story that began some five hundred years ago. <P>Fully authentic, this book by the Admiralty Archivist is of value not only as an mportant contribution to contemporary naval history, but as a dramatic narrative in which courage and indomitable determination are the keynote qualities. <P>If shipping within the USA, buyer will pay $3.75 for media mail s/h. Payment can be made by money order or through PayPal. <P>I sell used books. The items come from many different sources and may have been exposed to pet, smoke or other odors in a previous home.

1954 Fleet Air Arm book British Navy HB/DJ - P. K. Kemp

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Monday, March 22nd 2010.

1954 Fleet Air Arm book British Navy HB/DJ - P. K. Kemp

Price $24.95

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