Forgotten Weapon: U.S. Navy Airships and the U-Boat War

摘要

It's rare for a new book to appear describing an aspect of World War II that hasn't already been covered in great detail elsewhere, but that is precisely the case in Forgotten Weapon. The development and contribution of U.S. Navy LTA (lighter-than-air) aviation to the war effort has been almost completely overlooked in favor of carrier-based, land-based and water-based airplanes. Yet LTA was involved from the beginning, overcoming great handicaps to become a major component of naval operations and a formidable weapon in combating the scourge of German U-boats.