Jim Meehan is a retired engineer employed by the Department of Defense in the repair, modification and maintenance of Navy and Marine Corps aircraft. He has collected photographs and data about military aircraft since childhood and has published articles for aviation periodicals and journals. Jim is a longtime member of the American Aviation Historical Society, the Tailhook Association, the Marine Corps Aviation Association and various aviation museums and societies. His photographs have been published in US and foreign aviation periodicals.
"Unless you are around military aircraft a lot you may have never noticed that naval aircraft seem to have fewer decorations than those of other services--and not just recently. Why? US naval aviation has been around for over 100 years so this can't be coincidence. Both authors have been around aircraft for a long time and apparently pondered this very question for a long time...There are lots of books about nose art--this one takes a completely unexpected tack."-- "SpeedReaders.info"
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