Osprey Colour Series (Aviation) : Grumman Cats

Grumman has produced many fine designs over the decades but are best known for their world beating fighters - the F4F Wildcat, the F7F Tigercat, the F6F Hellcat, the F8F Wildcat (or Bearcat), Turkeys, Waterfowl, and the F-14 Tomcat. This book charts the history of these 'cats' and illustrates many famous Navy fighter squadrons through the colourful markings of restored Grumman heavy metal both on the ground and in the skies. As with all photobooks by Michael O'Leary in this series the focus is on photographs of surviving planes, all taken by Michael O'Leary himself, you get 128 pages of colour photographs, ranging from plain good to breathtakingly good. The book gives an excellent full colour overview of all Grumman survivors that served in World War 2, up to and including the 'Duck' in the paragraph 'Turkeys and Waterfowl'.