Rear Admiral Herbert V. Wiley, U.S. Navy: A Career in Airships and Battleships

by M Ernest Marshall and Ernest Marshall M.D.

This book is, simultaneously, a biography of Admiral Herbert Victor Wiley and a history of the U.S. Navy's lighter-than-air program. As tensions rose between Japan and the U.S. over control of East Asia and the Pacific Ocean, the prospects of war between the two nations increased. The Navy tracked the Germans' use of zeppelins during the First World War and saw in them an aircraft with the potential to conduct long-range reconnaissance over the oceans...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1682473171
• ISBN13: 9781682473177
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.1"