US Navy Pacific Fleet 1941US Navy Pacific Fleet 1941 by Mark Lardas is the first book to examine the battleship led 1941 Pacific Fleet as it was intended to fight. Packed with illustrations, this study explains how the US Navy saw the approaching war unfolding. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the Pacific Fleet was the most powerful in the US Navy. Although dominated by battleships, since the late 1930s it had been developing naval aviation and integrating it with its