4th Fighter Group

Chris Bucholtz, in addition to a 12-year career as a technology journalist, has written extensively on aircraft history and on scale modelling. He is the aircraft editor of Internet Modeler, where he introduced his 'The Pilot and The Plane' series of long-form interviews with World War 2 aviators in 2002, and is the managing editor of the IPMS/USA Journal. His work has appeared in Flight Journal, Air Enthusiast and Plastic Kit Constructor. He wrote AEU 23: 332nd FG Tuskegee Airmen for Osprey in 2006.Since 1994, Chris Davey has illustrated more than 20 titles for Osprey's Aircraft of the Aces, Combat Aircraft and Aviation Elite Units series. Based in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, and one of the last traditional airbrush artists in the business, he has become the artist of choice for both USAAF fighters and RAF subject matter.

• CHAPTER ONE‘EAGLES’ TO THE ARMY AIR FORCECHAPTER TWOSPITFIRES TO THUNDERBOLTSCHAPTER THREEBLAKESLEE TAKES THE REINSCHAPTER FOURMUSTANGS OVER BERLINCHAPTER FIVEWAR OF ATTRITIONCHAPTER SIXRUNNING UP THE SCORECHAPTER SEVENTOP COVER FOR D-DAYCHAPTER EIGHTSHUTTLE MISSIONCHAPTER NINEAIR, LAND AND SEACHAPTER TENBREAKING THE LUFTWAFFE’S BACKCHAPTER ELEVENSLAUGHTER BY STRAFING APPENDICESCOLOUR PLATESCOMMENTARYBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX