Super Carriers: US Naval Air Power Today
- ISBN-10
- 0850456398
- ISBN-13
- 9780850456394
- Category
- Aircraft carriers
- Pages
- 123
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1985
- Publisher
- Osprey Publishing
- Author
- Jean-Pierre Montbazet
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