Norman Polmar
Autor de Project Azorian: The CIA and the Raising of K-129
Sobre El Autor
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 mostrar más 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 mostrar menos
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Obras de Norman Polmar
Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines, 1945-2001 (2003) 72 copias
Aircraft Carriers: A History of Carrier Aviation and Its Influence on World Events, Volume 1: 1909-1945 (1969) 57 copias
Aircraft Carriers: A History of Carrier Aviation and Its Influence on World Events: Vol. II, 1946-2006 (2008) 35 copias
The Naval Institute Guide to the Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet: 19th Edition (2013) 19 copias
The Naval Institute Guide to the Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet, 17th Edition (2001) 14 copias
Spyplanes: The Illustrated Guide to Manned Reconnaissance and Surveillance Aircraft from World War I to Today (2016) 13 copias
Navy's Most Wanted™: The Top 10 Book of Admirable Admirals, Sleek Submarines, and Other Naval Oddities (Most… (2009) 8 copias
Strike from the Sea: The Development and Deployment of Strategic Cruise Missiles since 1934 (2020) 6 copias
Opening the Great Depths: The Bathyscaph Trieste and Pioneers of Undersea Exploration (2021) 3 copias
Unmanned Combat Air Systems 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Code-Name Downfall: The Secret Plan to Invade Japan-And Why Truman Dropped the Bomb (1995) — Autor — 123 copias
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 1995 (1995) — Co-Author "The Voice of the Crane" — 22 copias
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 1992 (1992) — Co-Author "Arms and Men: The LST" — 19 copias
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 1997 (1997) — Author "Arms and Men: Torpedoes That Think" — 13 copias
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 1997 (1997) — Co-Author "Gassing Japan" — 10 copias
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- Polmar, Norman
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1938-05-14
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- USA
- Educación
- American University (BA, 1965)
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- historian
journalist - Organizaciones
- 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) (mostrar todos 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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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,… (más)