Pacific Hawk (Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II: Weapons Book No. 14)

Operations took them to the arctic cold, torrid desert heat, torrential tropical rains and steaming swamps. Often enough they toiled into the air with a thousand pound bomb and four forty pounders. Their pilots recklessly hurled them against Zeros, Me 109s, Fw 190s, and with unexampled courage, overcame. Seldom has an aircraft had a more varied career.