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US Navy Atlanta-class Light Cruisers 194049 by Mark Lardas Paperback Book

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ISBN-13
9781472866523
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10
1472866525
ISBN-13
9781472866523
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6070944242

Product Key Features

Book Title
Us Navy Atlanta-Class Light Cruisers 1940-49
Number of Pages
48 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2025
Topic
Military / World War II, Military / United States
Illustrator
Yes, Draminski, Stefan
Genre
History
Author
Mark Lardas
Book Series
New Vanguard Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
5.8 Oz
Item Length
9.8 in
Item Width
9.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Series Volume Number
340
Table Of Content
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT Genesis Foreign contemporaries Design Equipment VARIANTS, MODIFICATIONS, AND SUBCLASSES Oakland subclass Juneau class CL-154 class Wartime modifications OPERATIONAL HISTORY Introduction 1941-43 1944-45 Postwar CONCLUSION FURTHER READING INDEX
Synopsis
A comprehensively illustrated account of the Atlanta-class cruisers, warships that found a surprising key role in the Pacific War as the US Navy's superb antiaircraft warships. In the late 1930s, the US Navy created a class of small, light cruisers intended as a versatile destroyer leader. The Atlantas could provide antiaircraft support, lead and launch torpedo attacks, serve as antisubmarine vessels, and outgun other light warships in a surface engagement. The wartime reality was different. In every surface action they fought, they found themselves pitted against bigger cruisers (or even battleships) instead of the destroyers they were designed to defeat. In this book, naval historian Mark Lardas explains that despite their flaws, they proved one of the most useful warships in the US Navy: with a main battery of sixteen 5in guns, they proved to be superb antiaircraft cruisers. From the battle of Midway onwards, they protected the Navy's most valuable ships - its aircraft carriers - so effectively that later Atlantas were built to a modified design as specialist antiaircraft ships. The Navy even ordered a follow-on class postwar and considered building a "super-Atlanta," armed only with heavy antiaircraft guns. Packed with illustrations, this book examines the history, development, and modifications of these unusual warships, and their impact on the Pacific War., A comprehensively illustrated account of the Atlanta-class cruisers, which found a surprising key role in the Pacific War as the US Navy's superb antiaircraft warships.

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