Название: US Navy Ships vs Japanese Attack Aircraft: 1941-42
Автор: Mark Stille, Jim Laurier
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия: Osprey Duel 105
ISBN: 9781472836441
Год издания: 2020
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 81
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 12,5 MB
The striking power of the Imperial Japanese Navy's carrier-based attack aircraft was established at Pearl Harbor, and the IJN's carrier-based torpedo and dive-bombers showed their prowess again at the Battle of Coral Sea when they sank the US Navy carrier USS Lexington and damaged the carrier USS Yorktown. Even at the disastrous Battle of Midway, the relatively small number of IJNAF attack- and torpedo-bombers that were launched against the US fleet proved that they remained a potent force by heavily damaging Yorktown again, which allowed an IJN submarine to sink the carrier. At Guadalcanal, IJNAF carrier-based aircraft sank the carrier USS Hornet and badly damaged USS Enterprise twice.