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Nimitz Class Aircraft Carriers by Jim Goodall (2020, Trade Paperback)

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The largest naval vessels in the world are the Nimitz-class super aircraft carriers. The Nimitz (CVN-68) launched the class when it was commissioned on 3 May 1975 and it has been followed by another 9 vessels.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherSquadron

ISBN-100897476050

ISBN-139780897476058

eBay Product ID (ePID)124986596

Product Key Features

Book TitleNimitz Class Aircraft Carriers

Number of Pages80 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2020

TopicAviation / General, Military / Aviation

IllustratorSpraggins, Matheu, Greer, Don, Yes

GenreTransportation, History

AuthorJim Goodall

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.2 in

Item Weight9.6 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width11 in

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LCCN2011-378582

SynopsisThe largest naval vessels in the world are the Nimitz-class super aircraft carriers. The Nimitz (CVN-68) launched the class when it was commissioned on 3 May 1975 and it has been followed by another 9 vessels. Each is more than 1,000 feet long, and displaces 103,000 tons at full load. Carriers are vital to the projection of US power around the globe: USS Nimitz responded to the Iran hostage crisis in the late 1970s, launched raids on Libya in the early 1980s and challenged China's growing navy in the Taiwan Straits in 1996. USS Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first US warship to respond to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1990. USS Carl Vinson was the first to launch air attacks as part of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. In the mid-1990s USS Theodore Roosevelt supported NATO air strikes against Bosnian Serbs during fighting in former Yugoslavia. USS Abraham Lincoln backed up Operation Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan in the early 2000s. Illustrated with more than 300 photographs, plus color profiles., The largest naval vessels in the world are the Nimitz-class super aircraft carriers. This book features more than with more than 300 photographs plus color profiles.

LC Classification NumberV874.3.G66 2009