A snapshot in time. After thousands of hours of research and data entry
over a 35-year period, the information on the disposition of some 25,000
US Navy, US Marine Corps and US Coast Guard aircraft needs to be
published. These aircraft mainly represent those built and lost during
World War II - between 7 December 1941 and 15 August 1945 - but this
book also contains aircraft built before WWII that were lost during WWII
or disposed of after WWII (lost during the Korean War, lost on training
exercises, sold to private investors, currently located in museums and
even some still proudly sitting as "gate guards" across the US, etc.).