Raised in Port Moresby, Michael Claringbould is a globally recognised expert on the New Guinea air war and Japanese aviation in particular.
The numerous reference photos and descriptions are incredible which will aide a modeler is getting the correct markings or conditions the aircraft were in during the harsh operational environment. -- IPMS/USA ...new volumes from Australian researcher and artist Michael Claringbould place the two widely differing fighters in sharp focus with photos and meticulous profiles, as well as equally ppealing illustrations to support the fact-filled text that create an encyclopedic look at the area war in the mid-war in the Pacific and the markings of specific aircraft in theater at the time. -- Naval Aviation News ...each chapter covers a specific squadron and goes into considerable detail about markings for individual aircraft. -- Historical Miniatures Gaming Society ...truly an outstanding reference book for the Pacific theater of war and Corsairs in general, really top-notch stuff. -- Large Scale Planes The book covers each of these squadrons in greater or lesser detail, showing each squadron's common markings and colors along with a number of great photos and profiles based on those photos as you can see by the example provided on the left. Each full color profile provides information on that particular aircraft. -- ModelingMadness.Com This is a great book on F4U Corsairs. -- AMPS Indianapolis