Books by Christopher Scott Lannon
Two series. One author. Narrative nonfiction about the men and women who painted bombers in the Second World War, and aviation fiction about the men who flew them.
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Painted for War
The Stories Behind WWII's Most Famous Nose Art
Narrative Nonfiction
The anonymous ground crew mechanics who created the most reproduced art of the 20th century deserve to be known by name. Tony Starcer painted 130 B-17s and gave up art to work in a warehouse for 36 years. Sarkis Bartigian painted the largest nose art in the war on a B-24 that was scrapped for two thousand dollars. The mechanic, the muralist, and the junkyard manager who saved the panels from the smelter.
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Whistling Death
A Wild Banshees Novel · Book 1
WWII Aviation Fiction
Marine Corsair pilots in the Solomon Islands, 1943. VMF-333 — the Wild Banshees — is a hastily assembled squadron flying F4U Corsairs from dirt strips. The Japanese called the Corsair Whistling Death. The pilots are starting to think something else is doing the screaming.
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