The British Pacific Fleet. The Royal Navy's Most Powerful Strike Force. Author David Hobbs cookery The Fleet Air Arm and

The Fleet Air Arm and the War in Europe completes David Hobbs’ much-praised six-volume series chronicling the operational history of British naval aviation from the earliest days to the present

From obsolete equipment and 4 aircraft carriers to state of the art aircraft and 59 aircraft carriers

Set during a period across two world wars

the cramped-cabins and meagre rations of WW2

The British Pacific Fleet. The Royal Navy's Most Powerful Strike Force. Author David Hobbs cookery The Fleet Air Arm andIn August 1944 the British Pacific Fleet did not exist. Six months later it was strong enough to launch air attacks on Japanese territory, and by the end of the war it constituted the most powerful force in the history of the Royal Navy, fighting as professional equals alongside the U. S. Navy. How this was achieved by a nation nearing exhaustion after five years of conflict is a story of epic proportions in which ingenuity, diplomacy, and dogged