Norman Polmar
Autore di Project Azorian: The CIA and the Raising of K-129
Sull'Autore
Norman Polmar has been a consultant to senior officials of the U.S. Navy and Department of Defense, and was a member of the Secretary of the Navy's Research Advisory Committee (NRAC). For four years -- as an employee of the Northrop Corporation -- he worked on the Navy's program to develop mostra altro submarine escape and rescue systems. He is the author of more than thirty books on naval, aviation, and intelligence subjects. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia mostra meno
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Opere di Norman Polmar
Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines, 1945-2001 (2003) 72 copie
Aircraft Carriers: A History of Carrier Aviation and Its Influence on World Events, Volume 1: 1909-1945 (1969) 57 copie
Aircraft Carriers: A History of Carrier Aviation and Its Influence on World Events: Vol. II, 1946-2006 (2008) 35 copie
Spyplanes: The Illustrated Guide to Manned Reconnaissance and Surveillance Aircraft from World War I to Today (2016) 13 copie
Navy's Most Wanted™: The Top 10 Book of Admirable Admirals, Sleek Submarines, and Other Naval Oddities (Most… (2009) 8 copie
Strike from the Sea: The Development and Deployment of Strategic Cruise Missiles since 1934 (2020) 6 copie
Opening the Great Depths: The Bathyscaph Trieste and Pioneers of Undersea Exploration (2021) 3 copie
Unmanned Combat Air Systems 1 copia
Opere correlate
Code-Name Downfall: The Secret Plan to Invade Japan-And Why Truman Dropped the Bomb (1995) — Autore — 123 copie
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 1995 (1995) — Co-Author "The Voice of the Crane" — 22 copie
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 1992 (1992) — Co-Author "Arms and Men: The LST" — 19 copie
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 1997 (1997) — Author "Arms and Men: Torpedoes That Think" — 14 copie
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 1997 (1997) — Co-Author "Gassing Japan" — 11 copie
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- Nome canonico
- Polmar, Norman
- Data di nascita
- 1938-05-14
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Istruzione
- American University (BA, 1965)
- Attività lavorative
- historian
journalist - Organizzazioni
- American Aviation Historical Society
American Military Institute
National Press Club
United States Naval Institute (assistant editor ∙ Naval Institute Proceedings ∙ 1963 - 1967)
Washington Daily News (copyboy and reporter ∙ 1958 - 1960)
Navy Times (associate editor ∙ 1961 - 1963) (mostra tutto 9)
Northrop Grumman (technical support advisor ∙ 1967 - 1970)
Lulejian & Associates (assistant to the president ∙ [1970])
Navy Research Advisory Committee (1982 - 1986)
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- Opere
- 58
- Opere correlate
- 10
- Utenti
- 1,470
- Popolarità
- #17,475
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 17
- ISBN
- 107
- Preferito da
- 2
Behind-the-scenes look at thirty-two important U.S. Navy and Marine Corps aircraft. These entries are based on the author’s "Historic Aircraft" column, appearing in Naval History. The aircraft selected, some famous and others virtually unknown, represent a mix of types: fighters, dive-bombers, patrol planes, transports, trainers, and helicopters, including the Pitcairn XOP-1 autogiro, the first rotary-wing aircraft to be operated by the Navy and Marines. They span the period from the Vought VE-7, the first type to take off from the Navy’s first carrier, the USS Langley, in 1922, through the Grumman A-6 Intruder, which flew in the Vietnam and Persian Gulf Wars before being retired from service in 1996. Prominently featured also are the classic aircraft that the Navy and Marines flew to victory in World War II. Combining technical detail with the human dramas of flight and aerial combat,… (altro)