This 112 page soft cover book is in excellent (NEW) condition due to being stored since first purchased in 1992 when published by Schiffer Publishing Limited.  With pictures and words this accurately describes the P-51 Mustang  one of the most outstanding aircraft developed by the Allies during World War II. Indeed it combined the finest powerplant developed in Great Britain with the best airframe developed by American engineers. The Mustang could climb much faster than the Japanese Zero and out dive any Axis planes. It had no equal in terms of range. P-51s accounted for the destruction of more than 9,000 Luftwaffe aircraft with a loss of slightly more than 2,500 Mustangs, a ratio of almost 4 to 1. The P-51 were  a relative latecomer to the Pacific theater, due largely to the need for the aircraft in Europe. The first P-51s were deployed in the Far East later in 1944, operating in close-support and escort missions, as well as tactical photoreconnaissance. As the war in Europe wound down, the P-51 became more common. With the capture of Iwo Jima, USAAF P-51 Mustang fighters of the VII Fighter Command were stationed on that island starting in March 1945, being initially tasked with escorting Boeing B-29 Superfortress missions against the Japanese homeland.  By the end of the war, VII Fighter Command had  claimed to have destroyed or damaged 1,062 aircraft and 254 ships, along with large numbers of buildings and railway rolling stock. American losses were 91 pilots killed and 157 Mustangs destroyed.

Aside from the great pictures , black and white and color, this wonderful book is signed by the following nine(9) aces.

Major Hershell H. Green     18 victories
Lt. James "Jim" Brooks    13 victories
Lt.  Col Robert "Bob" Goebel    11 victories
Maj. Gen. Charles "Sandy" McCorkle    1 victories
Lt. Walter John Goehausen    10  victories
Cpt. Richard William Dunkin     9 victories
Cpt. Joseph H Bennett        8 1/2 victories
Col.Arthur C. Fiedler        8 victories
Maj. Robert "Bob" Barky     5 victories