Books On The Piper L-4

[Blue Leader]

I thought I'd start a new subject and list the books I have collected on the L-4. These books are about the L-4 in its operations in WW11 and Korea. They range from personnel memoirs of flying the Cub through to general histories of Liaison aircraft, mainly the L-4. It has sure given me a better understanding of how these aircraft where used.

"U.S Navy Flight Training Manual"
"Purple Heart Valley" by Margaret Bourke-White
"Jeeps In The Sky" by Lt. Col. Andrew Ten Eyke
"Alone and Unarmed" by Ernest E. Kowalik.
"The Putt-Putt Air Force" by Patricia Strickland
"Battlefield Pilot" by V P. Rizzo
"Box Seat Over Hell" by Hardy D . Cannon
"Box Seat Over Hell Volume 2" by Bill Stratton
"Grasshopper Pilot" by James R. Stegall
"Low and Slow" by Don Moore
"The Grasshopper That Roared" by Don Moore
"Liaison Pilot" by James R Bryce
"Grasshopper Pilot- A Memoir" by Julian William Cummings
"The Unsung Flyers" by Earl Nelson ( mainly about flying ops in the L-5 )
"Janey- A little Plane in A Big War" by Alfred Schultz
"Balconey Seat At The ETO" by Clyde Beers
"Light Planes At War" by Ken Wakefield
"The Fighting Grasshoppers" by Ken Wakefield
"On The Grasshopper Trail" by Allen Knisley
"Barkers Cubs" by Duncan H Doolittle
"American Combat Liaison Aircraft of WW11" by Tery Love
"Those Legendary Piper Cubs" by Carroll Glines
"Unknown Pilot of WW11" by P Robert Leslie ( Mainly about the L-5 )
"Eyes of Artillery" by Edgar F Raines, Jr.

Also being published in the Fall by Kent State University Press will be "Above The Thunder" by Ray Kerns, his memoirs of flying in the Pacific.

Anyone interested in doing a accurate restoration of your L-4 two good books that I found very helpful are:
"US Army Aviation Colour Schemes & Markings" by Lennart Lundh
" Restoring Museum Aircraft" by Robert Mikesh

If anyone knows of any more books worth a read please list them.

Cheers.

 

[Dan Johnson]

 

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