Product descriptionAIRfile illustrated guides are designed to provide comprehensive camouflage scheme and markings coverage, culled from a variety of areas including previously published material, official and private documents and photo collections, and primary sources.
Full of well-researched, clear and unambiguous full colour illustrations, with detailed informative captions, AIRfile illustrated guides can be used as a one-stop reference source, clearly showing the chronology and development of the schemes and markings of the aircraft in question, including the many anomalies and inevitable misinterpretations and errors occasionally to be found on operational military aircraft, or as an integral part of your research into the fascinating study of combat operations – from World War One to the present day..
Pictorial coverage of the very colourful schemes and markings applied to the
USAAF's 8th and 9th Air Forces' aircraft during 'Operation Overlord' from June to September 1944, including...
o Both US Air Forces' fighters, fighter-bombers, tactical bombers and heavy bombers squadrons and units included
o Large representative selection of the scores of operational squadrons and their aircraft types and sub-variants
o Coverage of the application of the Distictive Markings (invasion stripes) and how they changed throughout the June to September period
o Explanation of the 8th and 9th AF's coding systems and Squadron/Group/Wing markings