Below is the cover page of the 457-page 4th Edition of "Joining the War at Sea 1939-1945"
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While serving as Gunnery Officer on the USS Edison, Dailey was confronted with the aviation technology used by German bombers attacking his ship and others. After transitioning to naval aviation, he experienced first hand many of the innovations in instrument flight that led to the book below.
Now, for illustrated readings, see linked pages:
Aircraft of World War II-"friendlies"
USS West Point AP23 War Cruise-part 1
USS West Point AP23 War Cruise-part 2
Ships and Aircraft of World War II
Battleship Duel between USS Massachusetts and Jean Bart
Copyright 2009
USS Massachusetts BB-59, as Fall River, Massachusetts' visitors saw her on boarding her stern in 2003
The USS Texas, BB-35, and USS New York, BB-34, were the other two battleships that participated as part of the Western Naval Task Force in the three pronged landing effort made by Task Force 34 on Morocco's Atlantic Coast on November 8, 1942. Texas is now a museum ship. New York was lost in Pacific A-bomb tests after WW II.
Massachusetts led the Covering Group for the entire Western Naval Task Force operation and spent most of that period countering the heavy guns of the French Battleship, Jean Bart. The latter could not get underway, but was alongside a dock in Casablanca so that she was facing the sea, with her forward turrets and fire control system operable. This author was aboard the destroyer, USS Edison DD-439, screening for Augusta on one foray on November 9, 1942, when two giant shell splashes bracketed Augusta's stern. An acknowledged French Navy capability was excellent fire control
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From the U.S. Navy's recognition slide set in WW II, this is the French battleship Richelieu, sister ship of the Jean Bart. This provides an idea of what Jean Bart would look like had she had her propulsion installed and been able to steam at sea.