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(More customer reviews)A SUPERB piece that fills a major hole in reference material on WWII Naval Aviation. Mr. Tillman has compiled basic information on all Navy fighting squadrons from World War II. Content includes cruise data, ships flown from, aircraft and aces. This is not light reading but will be the one you use when you wonder "what ship was Fighting-11 assigned to in 1943" or "When did VF-17 convert to Hellcats?". People expecting his "normal" style of writing will probably be underwhelmed. Tillman is to be congratulated for putting out a book that the Navy Historical Office should've done decades ago. Here's hoping he does the same for the other carrier squadrons.
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Only Barrett Tillman, dean of Naval aviation historians,could have created a readable reference book of this nature. Thisfirst-ever chronology of VF squadrons describes their history,deployments, battle highlights, commanders, aces, losses, andaircraft. Twenty-five lush appendices supply further informationincluding shoot-down claims, biographies of 12 famous aces, and a listof 371 Naval fighter aces, aces in a day, and top scoring squadrons.
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