[MichaelS]

Originally Posted by Don Boose

Good work on this model, Michael. I like all your dioramas, too.

Let me second your recommendation of John B. Lundstrom's The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2005), and anything else by John Lundstrom.

My two favorite Grumman-specific books are Richard Thruelsen, The Grumman Story (New York: Praeger, 1976), and René J. Francillon, Grumman Aircraft since 1929 (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1989, originally published by Putnam Aeronautical Books, 1989).

I'm looking forward to your future builds and hope many of them are on this theme.

Don

Yep. I have "The First Team at Guadalcanal" as well. Barret Tillman does some great aircraft history books as well.

Thanks for your compliments. Iam finding one of the hardest parts of this new hobby is deciding what to build next!!
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