USMC Aviators: Marine Corps Airmen in the Pacific

With his new book, Gregory Pons invites us to discover the aviators of the legendary US Marine Corps in the South Pacific. This volume contains seven chapters, each named for a different squadron, and the personal memoirs, flight log books, and photo albums of the men who served in it. Through these words and photos, as well as many outstanding never-before-published photographs, the author enables the reader to share in the daily lives of these men as they experience training and combat. With its colorful plane profiles, original documents, and reconstructions detailing the flight equipment of these men, this book is the first of its kind about US Marine aviation. After the success of his two previous books, the author was inspired by the TV series "Baa Baa Black Sheep", VMF-214, and its famous Commanding Officer, Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington to research and write about the mainy other US Marine aviators and their squadrons that were there.

406 original photos and period documents
20 pages of reconstructions and flight gear
19 plane profiles in color

Author's note on the back cover : "When Japan attacked the United States on December 7th, 1941, Americans realized they would be fighting on the largest battlefield in history, the Pacific Ocean. The evolution of this conflict, which started with carrier strikes, made aviation and aircraft carriers the dominant elements of each combat. Americans deployed elite aviators Navy and Marine Corps from shipboard and ground-based squadrons. Fighting in a hostile environment thousands of miles away from home, these men performed courageous exploits daily. Using original source material from the photo albums and archives of some of those heroes, here is their story."