Comprehensive Guide to Naval Aviation History: United States Naval Aviation 1910 - 1995 - Pioneers, World War II, Korea, Ships, Aircraft, Helicopters, Carriers, Pilot Heroes    by Progressive Management
Price: $9.99 USD. 246770 words. Language: English. Published on June 7, 2013. Nonfiction » History » Military.
The fourth edition of United States Naval Aviation 1910-1995 is a testimony to Naval Aviation's achievements as it prepares to enter the 21st century and its first one hundred years of service. The Naval Historical Center's Aviation History Office has expanded on previous editions to make this chronology the quintessential reference work on Naval Aviation history.

The Battle of Portland 1653    by Andrew May
Price: $2.99 USD. 6540 words. Language: English. Published by Bretwalda Books  on June 1, 2013. Nonfiction » History » Military.
The turning point in the 1st Anglo-Dutch War the Battle of Portland raged for three days off the south coast of England and ended in a decisive victory for the English fleet.

Navy Shipboard Lasers for Surface, Air, and Missile Defense: Deployment of the First Solid-State Laser Directed Energy Weapon, SSL, FEL, TLS, MLD, Terminal Defense Against China's ASBM    by Progressive Management
Price: $9.99 USD. 26980 words. Language: English. Published on April 9, 2013. Nonfiction » History » Military.
Navy officials announced in April 2013 that a solid-state laser would be deployed onboard the U.S.S. Ponce, providing the first at-sea demonstration of a revolutionary directed energy weapon.

Nuclear Navy: The U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program - Submarines, Aircraft Carriers, Shipyards, Support Facilities and Tenders, Training Program, History of First Nuclear Propulsion Plants    by Progressive Management
Price: $7.99 USD. 23310 words. Language: English. Published on March 31, 2013. Nonfiction » History » Military.
This is a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of the U.S. Navy's nuclear propulsion program. Navy warships are deployed around the world every hour of every day to provide a credible "forward presence," ready to respond on the scene wherever America's interests are threatened.

The U.S. Navy's Vision For Information Dominance - Concept, Information as a Weapon, Guiding Principles, Road Map    by Progressive Management
Price: $2.99 USD. 16150 words. Language: English. Published on March 13, 2013. Nonfiction » History » Military.
The concepts in this paper boldly point to the new niche Navy will fill at the intersection of maritime, information, and cyberspace domains. We do not seek to replace kinetic combat with information warfare or diminish the need for traditional instruments of military power.

Cordon of Steel: The U.S. Navy and the Cuban Missile Crisis - President John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev, Admiral Dennison, U-2, Fidel Castro, SS-4 Sandal and SS-5 Skean Soviet Missiles    by Progressive Management
Price: $9.99 USD. 64950 words. Language: English. Published on February 11, 2013. Nonfiction » History » Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba.
In the fall of 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union came as close as they ever would to global nuclear war. Hoping to correct what he saw as a strategic imbalance with the United States, Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev began secretly deploying medium range ballistic missiles (MRBM) and intermediate range ballistic missiles (IRBM) to Fidel Castro's Cuba.

Kite Balloons to Airships: the Navy's Lighter-than-Air Experience - Goodyear, Goodrich, Helium, Airship Disasters, Lakehurst, USS Akron, Macon, Heli-Stat, Aerocrane, ZP-32 and ZP-21    by Progressive Management
Price: $9.99 USD. 82860 words. Language: English. Published on February 2, 2013. Nonfiction » History » Military.
This monograph is intended to provide an overview of the Navy's involvement with balloons, airships and their operations, which shows their failures and accomplishments and their contributions to the Navy's mission of guarding the sea lanes of America. It provides an overall look at the history of LTA in the Navy.

U.S. Naval Air Reserve History- Aviation Cadet Program, World War II, Props to Jets, Squantum, Grenada and Lebanon, Weekend Warriors    by Progressive Management
Price: $7.99 USD. 66870 words. Language: English. Published on February 2, 2013. Nonfiction » History » Military.
Contents: I. The Beginning * II. Lean Years, The 1920s * III. Gathering Steam, The 1930s * IV. World War II, The Big Test * V. Postwar Activities and Korea, The Reserve Show * VI. 1953-1968: Stability with Transition, Props to Jets * VII. Reorganization and Revitalization in the 1970s * VIII. The 1980s, Present and Future

A History of U.S. Naval Aviation, 1930 - The Beginning of Aviation, World War Organization, France and the British Isles, Marine Corps Aviation, Lighter-than Air Craft    by Progressive Management
Price: $9.99 USD. 74060 words. Language: English. Published on January 29, 2013. Nonfiction » History » Military.
This informative history of early Naval aviation was prepared in 1930, when memories of the beginning of aviation were still fresh.

Naval Aviation in World War I - Official Reference Source, Naval Aircraft, the Flying Bomb, Hewitt and Elmer Sperry, War Against the U-Boat, Navy's First Ace, Training at MIT and Yale    by Progressive Management
Price: $9.99 USD. 95030 words. Language: English. Published on January 29, 2013. Nonfiction » History » Military.
Based on official sources as well as the recollections of participants, it is authoritatively presented through an interesting combination of official and personal accounts.