Thousands of hours of research have culminated in this First Edition of
U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Coast Guard and Naval Air Transport
Service patrol aircraft lost or damaged during World War II. Within
these pages can be found more than 2,200 patrol aircraft in Bureau
Number (BuNo) sequence; the majority of the aircraft complete with their
stories of how they were lost or damaged or simply Struck Off Charge
(SOC) and removed from the Navy's inventory. Of interest to the reader
may be the alphabetical Index to the 7,600+ names of Officers,
aircrewmen and others mentioned in the book.