Aircraft carriers of the US Navy

New York City: Mayflower Books, 1980. First American Edition [stated], Presumed First printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 12 inches. Abbreviations. US aircraft carrier names. Classification and codes of US aircraft carriers. Explanatory Notes. Sections on Aircraft carriers 1920-1950, US Navy aircraft carrier classes 1920-1950, Aircraft carriers after 1950, and US Navy aircraft carrier classes after 1950. Appendices. DJ is in a plastic sleeve and shows little wear and soiling. In 1922 the US Navy commissioned its first small experimental aircraft carrier. This was followed into service by two much larger carriers in 1927 with five more being built including three large Yorktown class prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Then, to take the offensive against the Japanese Navy, the American Congress funded by far the largest carrier-building program in history. Since 1975, when the first of a fleet of ten nuclear-powered Nimitz class carriers was commissioned, The United States Navy s fleet of carriers has optimized its superpower status and worldwide power projection. Yet these are due to be replaced in the decades to come with the even more sophisticated nuclear-powered Gerald R. Ford class. Stefan Terzibaschitsch (born March 22, 1926 in Belgrade ; † January 8, 2008 in Leonberg) was a German naval book author of Serbian descent. His area of work was mainly the United States Navy , about which he wrote 28 books. There are also numerous specialist articles for various marine magazines. Taken to Germany as a result of the war, he was initially employed in the Ruhr coal mine from 1946 to 1960. He then worked for a support company in civil engineering in Leonberg until his retirement in 1986. Stefan Terzibaschitsch has been involved with the US Navy since 1961 and began to publish his own work on this in German. In addition to his publishing activities, he was a member of various maritime organizations and thus had contacts with members of the US Navy and experts all over the world.
Stefan Terzibaschitsch has been interested in maritime issues from an early age. In 1954 he had first contacts with the German specialist authors Alexander Bredt and Erich Gröner . This is where we started working on Weyer's Flottentaschenbuch, the standard German-language yearbook on the world's navies. This was later followed by work on Jane's Fighting Ships, Flottes de Combat and the English-language edition Combat Fleets of the World . From 1961 the specialization on the ships of the US Navy took place. Since 1959 he has contributed to German, British, American, Italian, Japanese and Swiss naval journals. In the same year, after a visit to Erich Gröner, the quarterly information sheet News from the US Navy was published . According to his own information, Stefan Terzibaschitsch published 428 articles in specialist journals between 1959 and 2003. In 1965 his first book was published. Stefan Terzibaschitsch was also a member of the United States Naval Institute and the International Naval Research Organization. Based on his experience, the author was considered a leading European expert on the US Navy, but preferably for the period after the Second World War. For the post-war period, his comprehensive and detailed explanations on the US Navy remain standard literature in German-speaking countries.