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Air Force Colors Volume 3: Pacific & Home Front 1942-1947 - Specials series (6152)

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Lynn Bernhard

Dana Bell Provides Valuable Historic Reference

Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2013

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'Air Force Colors Volume 3: Pacific & Home Front' provides insight into a little known story of World War II - military aircraft markings used in training in the United States while preparing aircrews for overseas duty. Combining Air Corps regulations with carefully selected photographs that clearly illustrate the points he makes in the text, Dana Bell fills a need for accurate information for military modelers and WW II history buffs alike. Well organized and complete, this book is a worthy addition to a private reference collection. It is the third volume in this series I bought, as I enjoyed the others so much.

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Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2016

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Other of the Dana Bell you need to paint your models ,well worth the cost. Be sure to buy the set of them

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Jim Atkinson

A very good reference highly recommend any of Dana Bell's work

Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2016

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A very good reference highly recommend any of Dana Bell's work.

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Mike O'Connor

Spectacular Color Guide to USAF WWII Colors!

Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2009

Dana Bell wraps up his USAAF COLORS trilogy with this nicely done, wonderfully illustrated volume, published by Squadron/Signal in 1997. AIR FORCE COLORS VOLUME 3 summarizes/illustrates colors and markings carried by Air Force aircraft in the Pacific, on the Home Front and on postwar aircraft. It's a visual delight and one of Squadron/Signal's best efforts ever!

Given such a wide canvas, Bell breaks the subject down into five more manageable sections: "Pacific Colors;" "The Home Front;" "CBI Markings;" "B-29s Against Japan;" and "Postwar USAAF to USAF." After giving general information on each subject Bell then goes into more specifics. The "CBI Markings" pages, for instance, include separate sections on markings carried by Fighter, Bomber, Air Commando, Transport, ATC, Recce and Misc. Units in that theater.

Although the text is dry, VOLUME 3 is a visual treat with 250+ black & white and color photographs and great Don Greer artwork. The accompanying artwork really makes this book: nine pages of aircraft profiles, two pages showing group and squadron insignia along with five pages of tail markings; all in glorious color.

The color profiles feature a smorgasbord of warbirds in myriad paint schemes: 5th AF Lightnings, Mustangs, Mitchells, Liberators and Black Widows; stateside AT-6s, P-29s, Catalinas and C-54s; postwar Mustangs, P-80s and B-29s; etc.

While not exhaustive, VOLUME 3 - and the entire AIR FORCE COLORS set - is a first-class, well-done introduction to a complex subject. Tons of illustrations, concise text and an easy-on-the-pocketbook price-tag makes for a big thumb's up!

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