Author: Charlie & Ann Cooper
In a fusion of art and history, portrayed in accurate detail, complete with combatants personal insights, War in Pacific Skies covers the most famous air engagements in WWIIs Pacific Theater of Operation.
Full color maps, previously unpublished photographs, original artwork and personal accounts visually and mentally enliven the air battles at Pearl Harbor, Coral Sea, Midway, Guam, Tinian, the Philippines, Iwo Jima, Okinawa and more.
Climb in to the cockpit of Americas famous Pacific war birds: the P-38 which carried Richard Bong to his 40 kills, the obsolete Curtiss Hawk piloted by Harry Brown who accounted for the only American airborne response at Pearl Harbor and join Colonel Tibitts in the "Enola Gay" as the B-29 Superfortress makes its final approach on Hiroshima.
Hardcover, 12" x 10-1/2", 192 pp, 100 color, 100 b/w
Full color, precision artwork by Jack Fellows depicting the action as it happened.
Hardcover book with previously unpublished color and black and white photographs of the men and their aircraft.
Color maps help describe the areas of action in the 70 million square miles of the Pacific.
Authors Ann and Charlie Cooper previously collaborated on Tuskegees Heroes, Featuring the Art of Roy La Grone and How to Draw Aircraft like a Pro.
Format: Hardbound
Pages: 192
Length: 12w x 10.5h
ISBN-13: 9780760311899
ISBN: 0760311897
Catalog ID: 135821AP