The history of interwar US Navy aircraft colours and markings is one of numerous aircraft types and frequently-changing identification colours and markings. However, it has been 35 years since a serious attempt to identify these changes has been made, and much of what was previously written is incomplete, inconsistent and inadequate. This was not due to poor scholarship but to a lack of access to the original source documents that tell the full story.
Noted author and researcher Dana Bell has now taken the first step to correct that situation in his new book Rivet Counter Guide #2. In this book Bell concentrates on the often-ignored aircraft assigned to battleships and cruisers, presenting a fresh examination of the topic and many startling revelations.