U. S. Navy Uniforms in World War II Series: U. S. Naval Aviation Flying Clothing and Gear

While I had a great many photos of my grandfather during the WWII portion of his lifelong career as a naval aviator, this book was indispensible in helping me recreate his flight gear circa 1943-44. I do living history at the local military aviation museum and keep the memories of the heroic flyers of WWII alive, my grandfather in particular.The extensive depth of this book is impressive. Having color photos of period gear is a great help as opposed to merely having reference images in black and white.I wholeheartedly recommend this book. It is worth every penny.

The good; The book has beautiful photography. The bad: The book has no index page, so if you're wanting to reference an item, you must flip through all the pages, and pray you recognize what you're looking for. The book is very weak on boots and gloves. It just isn't organized enough to be a great reference book.

Scale model figure painters will love this reference materiaal.

This book is as nice example of photographic research for collectors and historians

Excellent - invaluable reference for collectors

Jeff Warner's U.S. NAVAL AVIATION FLYING CLOTHING AND GEAR is an impressive, comprehensive guide to the uniforms worn and equipment carried by Navy and Marine aircrew during the 1920s, '30s and World War II. A 2007 Schiffer release, it should be of interest to Navy and World War II buffs alike as well as re-enactors.Warner's book tops off at 320 pages. The material is divided into chapters on Pre-Era Naval Aviation, Naval Aviator Training, Survival Equipment, Air Gunners, Ground Crew & Maintenance Personnel, Aircraft Carrier Based Aviation, Photographers, Airship Service, Wings, Aviation Insignia & Novelties, etc. The book features hundreds of well-captioned, vintage and contemporary b&w and color photographs, diagrams, etc. The book is a visual smorgasbord of helmets, jackets, goggles, labels, wings, patches, gloves, dress uniforms, parachute harnesses, first aid kits, etc,In short, U.S. Naval Aviation Flying Clothing and Gear is a treat for Navy buffs and a great addition to Schiffer's U.S. Navy Uniforms in World War II series. Highly recommended.*****9,650 Helpful Votes!

A NOTE TO ALL READERSAs the author of this book, I feel a strong sense of responsibility for everything in it. Naturally, typos and other errors are an inevitable occurrence despite all attempts to achieve perfection. Writers have to overlook the occasional misspelled word or transposed letters and dismiss them as trivial. However, I discovered a number of errors in this book which should be brought to the attention of the reader and corrected. Obviously it is too late to fix any errors in this volume and all of the information in it is there to stay forever, whether it is accurate or not. So, in an effort to affect some degree of damage control, I have included this list of errata to be kept with this book in an attempt to set the record straight for all present and future readers.* The book was incorrectly titled: "U.S. Naval Aviation Flying Clothing and Gear" by Schiffer. This was a temporary file name given to the text by someone at Schiffer. I reminded my editor to correct the title at all three stages of the editing process but they either forgot or refused to fix the problem. The title should be: "U.S. Naval Aviation Clothing and Equipment". The incorrect title is particularly unfortunate since "aviation" and "flying" are somewhat redundant.* The U.S. Navy Mark I life vest is incorrectly referred to as "Mark II" throughout the book. This error was due to the "fuzzy logic" used by a computerized grammar correcting program. It appears that references to "Mark I" as in the "Mark I life vest" and "Mark I Willson goggles" was interpreted as a conflict with similar references using roman numerals as in "Mark II Willson goggles" and "World War II". Evidently the grammar correcting program continuously prompted the user to "correct" one or the other and at some point "Mark I" was changed to "Mark II" for all Mark I life vest references in the text.* The back figure in the facing page photo has the top of his head cut off. The photo was cropped too short by the layout people at Schiffer. There is no excuse for this and it amounts to nothing less than sloppy editing.* In the last paragraph of the introduction, the word "imposable" should be "impossible".* Left and right are incorrectly transposed in the caption for the photo at the bottom right on page 126.* The word "them" should be "the" in the caption at the bottom of page 219.* On pages 248 and 250, Admiral John S. McCain is incorrectly described as Admiral Marc Mitscher. Both photos were incorrectly captioned at the National Archives. This error is somewhat understandable since both men were admirals, both were aviators, both were very close in age and both bore a resemblance to each other.I sincerely offer my most humble apologies to all readers for these errors and I hope to include this list with all future sales of this volume. I have been graciously reassured by everyone who currently owns a copy that the aforementioned errors do not diminish the value or scope of work of the book. I encourage all owners of this book to copy and paste these corrections to a printable format and keep them with their copy for future reference.Jeff Warner

brilliant book

Very comprehensive collection with a ton of excellent photos. The very good is that it is a comprehensive selection focusing on US Navy Flight gear specifically - a compilation which is not often to be found (perhaps this one is the only one). Great is as well the inclusion of original quartermaster material description and advice.The less good of the book is that it could have been organized and structured a bit better to serve better as standard reference for enthusiasts and collectors (like or example its USAAF pendent from Mathieu Bianchi "Flight Gear 1942-1945: US Army Air Forces Aviators in Europe", which can still be seen as benchmark).Overall this book is a must have for any collector or passionate of the Navy Flight Theaters during the WWII.

Incontournable pour les collectionneurs WWII, un bel hommage à ces hommes et femmes qui n'ont pas hésité à mettre leur vie au service de la liberté. Des photos de qualité, toutes les infos pour vos mannequins.