文档介绍：FIGHTING FORCES ON
THE SEA
Aircraft
Carriers
LYNN M. STONE
© 2006 Rourke Publishing LLC
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Editor: Frank Sloan
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stone, Lynn M.
Aircraft carriers / Lynn M. Stone.
p. cm. -- (Fighting forces on the sea)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-59515-459-0 (hardcover)
1. Aircraft carriers--United States--Juvenile literature. I. Title.
2006
'5--dc22
2005014713
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Table of
Contents
chapter 1 Aircraft Carriers ..............................4
chapter 2 Aircraft Carrier Characteristics ....14
chapter 3 Early History ...................................18
chapter 4 World War II ....................................20
chapter 5 After World War II ..........................24
chapter 6 The Future of Aircraft Carriers .....26
Glossary ..........................................................30
Index ................................................................32
Further Reading/Websites to Visit ....................32
Aircraft
Carriers
American aircraft carriers are the world’s
largest warships—and the centerpieces of
the . Navy’s bat forces.
Aircraft carriers provide a mobile airbase for
various types of . aircraft, including
fighter jets, fighter-bombers, tanker planes,
reconnaissance planes, air-refueling planes,
and helicopters.
Aircraft carriers give the United