Holding the Line

The Naval Air Campaign In Korea

Thomas McKelvey Cleaver (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2021
Osprey Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4728-3173-6 (ISBN)

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Naval and air power were crucial to the United Nations’ success in the Korean War, as it sought to negate the overwhelming Chinese advantage in manpower. In what became known as the 'long hard slog', naval aviators sought to slow and cut off communist forces and support troops on the ground. USS Leyte (CV-32) operated off Korea in the Sea of Japan for a record 93 continuous days to support the Marines in their epic retreat out of North Korea, and was crucial in the battles of the spring and summer of 1951 in which the UN forces again battled to the 38th Parallel.

All of this was accomplished with a force that was in the midst of change, as jet aircraft altered the entire nature of naval aviation. This paperback edition of Holding the Line chronicles the carrier war in Korea from the first day of the war to the last, focusing on front-line combat, while also describing the technical development of aircraft and shipboard operations, and how these all affected the broader strategic situation on the Korean Peninsula.

Thomas McKelvey Cleaver is the author of the well-received and best-selling Fabled Fifteen: The Pacific War Saga of Carrier Air Group 15, a history of the US Navy’s top-scoring carrier air group in World War II, published by Casemate. He is additionally the author of F4F and F6F Aces of VF-2 published by Osprey, and also the author of Pacific Thunder (2017) and Tidal Wave (2018) a history of the carrier battles in the Pacific War. He lives in Encino, California, USA.

Foreword by Dr. Richard P. Hallion
Introduction
Chapter 1: Climb Angels Two-Five – Buster!
Chapter 2: The Revolt of the Admirals
Chapter 3: Forging a New Sword
Chapter 4: Naval Aviation Saves Itself
Chapter 5: Defeat Looms
Chapter 6: Inchon
Chapter 7: A Whole New War
Chapter 8: Disaster
Chapter 9: Holding the Line
Chapter 10: The Battle of Carlson’ s Canyon and the Hwachon Dam
Chapter 11: Weekend Warriors
Chapter 12: Operation Strangle
Chapter 13: “Death Valley”
Chapter 14: Who Owns the Night?
Chapter 15: The Cherokee
Chapter 16: The West Coast
Chapter 17: The Marine War
Chapter 18: The End in Sight
Chapter 19: The War Assessed
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.01.2021
Zusatzinfo	32pp plate section in black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 234 mm
Gewicht	498 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-4728-3173-X / 147283173X
ISBN-13	978-1-4728-3173-6 / 9781472831736
Zustand	Neuware