Fighting Colors

The Fighting Colors book catalogues a unique insight into WW2 military aircraft nose art. In addition to the authentic photographs taken during the war, this book provides detailed descriptions of how the artwork was applied and also captures the personality of the pilots and artists who gave each war bird its own unique character. The author is a current warbird nose artist. The book displays hundreds of B/W original photographs of the various World War Two aircraft of the United States.  Also presenting a historical narrative of how the nose cone art become so popular. There are 297 A 4 size format pages, with photographs shown in order of aircraft type and then location area, There is a personnel and also aircraft index by name of plane for ease of reference. This is the hard cover edition.

'Highly necessary for model makers'