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This highly‑detailed work on the Fifth Air Force contains interest for everybody, from veterans and their relatives, to historians. The contents of the forty chapters are listed here to demonstrate the book’s wide variety of aircraft biographies. Such diversity has never before been published with such accuracy and detail. This claim is not made lightly.

PROFILE 1
“A WONDERFUL LESSON CAN BE LEARNED

MORTIMER, NORTH AMERICAN B-25C-1 MITCHELL #41-12443

PROFILE 21
MITCHELL WITH TWO LIVES

TONDELAYO/ CHOW HOUND, NORTH AMERICAN B-25D-20 #41-30669

PROFILE 2
AIRACOBRA VERSUS THE IMPERIAL FLIERS

(UNNAMED) BELL P-39F AIRACOBRA #41-7170

PROFILE 22
MOST FAMOUS WRECKONEER

STINKY JO, NORTH AMERICAN B-25D-25 MITCHELL #42-87292

PROFILE 3
AN EXTRAORDINARY TWELVE MINUTES

SNOOKS 5TH, NORTH AMERICAN F-6D MUSTANG #44-14841

PROFILE 23
OLD RELIABLE

OLD S”, DOUGLAS A-20G-30-DO HAVOC #43-9468

PROFILE 4
AUSTRALIA’S ONLY AMERICAN MIA

(UNNAMED), BOEING B-17E FLYING FORTRESS #41-2650

PROFILE 24
ONE OF THE DISAPPEARED

CHIEF SEATTLE, BOEING B-17E FLYING FORTRESS #41-2656

PROFILE 5
AVOIDING JAPANESE AND COMMUNISTS

(UNNAMED), NORTH AMERICAN B-25J-20-NA #44-29306

PROFILE 25
PATERNAL PILGRIMAGE

(UNNAMED) NO 91, REPUBLIC P-47D-11-RA #42-22896

PROFILE 6
BUMP IN THE NIGHT

(UNNAMED) BOEING B-17E FORTRESS #42-2460

PROFILE 26
“PRETTY UNHAPPY”

(UNNAMED) CURTISS P-40N-5-CU WARHAWK #42-105909

PROFILE 7
CLOUD‑COVERED OBLIVION

(UNNAMED) CURTISS C-46D COMMANDO #44-78490

PROFILE 27
RESCUE OR SUPPLIES, ANYONE ?

JUG HAID STINSON L-5A # 42-98089

PROFILE 8
COMMANDER WITH CHARACTER

SPOOK, DOUGLAS A-20A-DO #40-109

PROFILE 28
RIM SHOT

(UNNAMED) CONSOLIDATED B-24M-20-CO #44-42240

PROFILE 9
CONFUSED SURRENDER

(UNNAMED) DOUGLAS C-54E-1-DO SKYMASTER #44-9045

PROFILE 29
SHARK-TOOTHED WHALE

MOBY DICK, CONSOLIDATED B-24D-15-COLIBERATOR #41-24047

PROFILE 10
DEMISE SUDDEN AND UNEXPECTED

BABY DOLL, DOUGLAS A-20G-25-DO HAVOC #43-9113

PROFILE 30
SHOWER UNDER THE WING

MAN-O-WAR, DOUGLAS C-47 #41-18602

PROFILE 11
DESPERATE DAYS – RETREAT TO BROOME

YARD BIRD CONSOLIDATED LB-30 LIBERATOR II AL515

PROFILE 31
SLUGFEST OF THE MEDIUMS

MITCH THE WITCH, NORTH AMERICAN B-25D-25 MITCHELL #42-87293

PROFILE 12.
ENDURANCE BEYOND WORDS

FLYING DUTCHMAN, DOUGLAS C-47A #41-18564

PROFILE 32
SOLE SURVIVOR

(UNNAMED) CONSOLIDATED B-24J-135-CO #42-110121

PROFILE 13
ENGINE NUMBER FOUR, THEN NUMBER THREE

PATCHED UP PIECE, CONSOLIDATED F-7A # 42-64047

PROFILE 33
STILL THERE

UNNAMED DOUGLAS A-20G-15-DO HAVOC #42-54157

PROFILE 14
ENTER THE WIDOW

SKIPPY/NOCTURNAL NEMESIS,
 NORTHROP P-61A  BLACK WIDOW #42-5502

PROFILE 34
SWORD TO PLOUGHSHARE

LITTLE HELLION, DOUGLAS A-20A #40-166

PROFILE 15
FAMOUS FORTRESS

THE SWOOSE, BOEING B-17D FLYING FORTRESS #40-3097

PROFILE 35
THE HUNTER IN TOMMY ROBERTS

(UNNAMED) BELL P-39Q-6-BE AIRACOBRA #42-19949

PROFILE 16
FINAL AERIAL COMBAT OF THE WAR

(UNNAMED) CONSOLIDATED B‑32-35-CF #42-108578

PROFILE 36
“THE NEW ATTACK BOMBER”

(UNNAMED) DOUGLAS A-26B # 44-34332

PROFILE 17
FROM HINDSIGHT IT WAS A JINX

TAXPAYER’S PRIDE, BOEING B-17F FLYING FORTRESS #41-24448

PROFILE 37
TWO‑THEATRE LIGHTNING

(SKULL WITH TOPHAT) LOCKHEED P-38F-5-LO #42-12623

PROFILE 18
HALF-CENTURY PHOENIX

BIG NIG, DOUGLAS A-20G-25-DO HAVOC #43-9436

PROFILE 38
“WHAT NO ENEMY HAD BEEN ABLE TO ACHIEVE”

DIXIE, MARTIN B-26 MARAUDER # 40-1496

PROFILE 19
LIFE AND TIMES OF IVERSON’S BABY

BIG EMMA CONSOLIDATED B-24D-1-CO LIBERATOR #41-23751

PROFILE 39
WHERE IS BONG’S LIGHTNING?

MARGE, LOCKHEED P-38J-15-LO LIGHTNING #42-103993

PROFILE 20
LOW-LEVEL AND THE MORESBY WRECK

CHATTERBOX NORTH AMERICAN B-25D-5-NA MITCHELL #41-30088

PROFILE 40
WIRE HANDLES

RAVIN RACHAEL, DOUGLAS A-20G-25-DO HAVOC #43-9126

 

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