The carrier references include Japanese Aircraft Carriers 1920-1945 and French Aircraft Carriers 1920-2000. Norman Friedman's U.S. Aircraft Carriers: An Illustrated Design History supplies another national design history, with ship plans by A. D. Baker III. British Carrier Aviation is valued for its hand-drawn archival design sketches. A newer British volume provides fold-out plans of Ark Royal, Victorious and Glorious across four A4 pages. The distinction between preliminary sketches and detailed ship plans gives readers different ways to examine proposals and completed designs.
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Reference books for tracing carrier design
A compact reading list points viewers toward illustrated design histories and plans for Japanese, French, American, and British carriers.