A 108-page small format soft-cover book.
This sets out the use of the various marks of the P-40 Warhawks as used by the USAAF and USMC units in the 5th Air Force in New Guinea, the 13th Air Force in the Solomon Islands, and their base/maintenance sites in Australia itself. Amongst the notes explained in the introduction, individual airframes were often moved between units over time. As they required major servicing/repairs they would be sent back to facilities in Australia, so when ready were often issued to other units. That makes tracking colours and markings over the course of the war a more complex problem. The first chapter tackles some basic detail on Markings and Technical Notes, including basic stencils, National and Tailplane markings, as well as a handy set of drawings illustrating the basic visual recognition features to help identify the various marks of P-40. The very first examples were shipped to Australia before they went out to specific units. The remaining chapters cover the 7th, 8th, 9th, 35th, 44th and 68th Fighter Squadrons, along with the 110th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron and 312th Bombardment Group and then all rounded off with some unique Warhawks of a mix of minor operators. As well as information on each unit, plenty of archive photos, the heart of the book are a series of 110 colour artwork profiles illustrating colours and markings, including unit markings, which are all accompanied by notes on each one. We get the benefit of a huge investigation task that the author has completed to gather all the detail from available official records.
The detail in here is impressive, and this is another welcome addition to the available material on the many aircraft types, and the units which flew them, in the was against Japan in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. This is volume 11 and there are more to come, and together they make up a marvellous source for your reference shelves if you are a historian or modeller interested in the air war in the Pacific. I don't have any hesitation in recommending the book.

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