Description

Warpath Across The Pacific is the first volume in the Eagles Over the Pacific series. Top aviation historians consider it to be the best book on an air combat unit ever produced. Exhaustively researched both from archival sources and through interviews and correspondence with hundreds of unit veterans, Lawrence J. Hickey has created the most carefully researched and written history. This book has become the standard for combat aviation history and is in its fifth revised edition.

The book tells the history of the 345th Bomb Group (345th BG) “Air Apaches” equipped with the B-25 Mitchell medium bombers modified as strafers with additional nose guns. The group flew combat missions across the Southwest Pacific including New Guinea, the Philippines, and Japan. Most missions were flown at tree-top heights of only 50′ to 100′ and their cameras snapped some of the most dramatic photography ever recorded of aerial warfare.

Warpath includes 448 pages of text, over 700 photos, detailed appendices of crews, casualties, and every aircraft flown plus a magnificent 32-page color section that includes 48 aircraft profiles by aviation artist Steve Ferguson and five fine art paintings by artist Jack Fellows. The book is copiously illustrated with maps that annotate every mission flown and aircraft lost. This book remains a must-have for any aviation or military history enthusiast.

Reviews

• “Only once in many decades does a book of this quality and impact appear…” –Jeff Ethell, Warbirds Magazine
• “…one of the most exhaustively researched, brilliantly illustrated, and trenchantly told accounts we have ever read…Warpath Across the Pacific is as near to an epic as most of us will ever come. It is by far the best aviation history and one of the best aeronautical books we have read in years.” –Joseph Mizzahi, Airpower Magazine
• “One of the best books ever covering the air war against the Japanese in the South Pacific…This one gets our highest recommendation.” –Zenith Aviation Books
• “…a bargain…Warpath stands as the finest aviation unit history ever compiled.” –American Fighter Aces Bulletin
• “…monumental…a feast…This large volume will surely find its way to anyone interested in World War Two aviation.” –Air Classics Magazine
• “The American military book of the year!” –Air Fan Magazine (France)
• “…Tells both the official history and anecdotal history of its pilots, crews, and personnel. This history is assembled from both official records, and hundreds of veteran interviews over decades of research…” –PacificWrecks.com