Grumman Cats

by Michael O'Leary

Grumman has produced many fine designs over the decades but are best known for their world beating fighters - the tubby Wildcat, the Hellcat, the Tigercat, the Bearcat and the F-14 Tomcat. This book charts the history of these cats and illustrates many famous Navy fighter squadrons through the colourful markings of restored Grumman heavy metal both on the ground and in the skies.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1855322471
• ISBN13: 9781855322479
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Michael O'Leary's Postwar Gruman Cats

As with all photobooks by Michael O'Leary in the Osprey series, you get 128 pages of colour photographs, ranging from plain good to breathtakingly good. The only dissapointment for me in this book was the mistake to name the Bearcat by its right name, naming it F8F Wildcat, but that is the only thing I found that I didn't like. The book gives an excellent full colour overview of all Grumman survivors that served in WW2, up to and including the 'Duck' in the paragraph 'Turkeys and Waterfowl'As with other Michael O'Leary books in this series the focus is on photographs of surviving planes, all taken by Michael O'Leary himself, so don't expect to see original WW2 colour photographs or some Korean ones for that sake.