WWII American War Eagles 1937-1942: America's Arsenal Of Democracy- Vol. 1 (2001) By Warren M. Bodie
 
Warren Bodie - God bless 'im - was the last independent author-publisher in the world. His Widewing Publications was responsible for a series of marvellous full-colour books on WWII warbirds. WWII AMERICAN WAR EAGLES, 1937-1942, published in 2001, is a 192-page paean to classic Army Air Corps and Navy aircraft of the pre-war/early-war period.
 
As with all Bodie's books, it's a first-rate effort with gorgeous colour throughout. WWII AMERICAN WAR EAGLES is basically Bodie's personal, opinionated, idiosyncratic, photo-illustrated history of America and the aviation industry in the years 1937-1942.
 
The book consists of just three chapters! The chapters - "Life with a Sleeping Giant, 1939-1941;" "A Day of Infamy - Then Unleashing the Arsenal" and "Churning, Burning and Learning" - start with a brief two-three page introductory essay and then plunge into page after page of gorgeous, extensively-captioned Kodachrome photos of just about every warbird and many civilian craft that flew in that time-period.
 
Many of the photos are full-page. So what awaits the reader? Here's a sampling: BT-9s, P-36s, F2Fs, F4Fs, XF5Fs, A-36s, A-35s, P-51s, P-39s, A-17s, B-23s, P2Ys, N3Ns, XP-46s, B-25s, OS2Us, F2As, TBFs, AT-10s, XF4Us, VS-44s, N-1Ms, SBDs, DB-7s, B-17s and on and on and on. Page after page; over 210 shots and all wonderfully reproduced! 
 
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
192 pages
In Good Condition