ON THE COVER:
A. Hall PH-3 being prepared by Coast Guard members for an
anti-U-Boat patrol out of Floyd Bennett Field in 1942. Photography by
Rudy Arnold

FEATURES:

TUMULT OVER TUNISIA
How the 14th Fighter Group and their Lockheed
Lightnings fought the Axis in North Africa /
by Steve Blake

COST OF WAR
Our photographic survey of destroyed and damaged
Second World War aircraft / by Michael O’Leary

THE SMASHER
Concluding the history of Paul Mantz and his North
American B-25 Mitchells / by Scott Thompson

HALL BOATS FOR THE COASTIES
How the US Coast Guard used the odd Hall All-
Aluminum flying boats to combat the U-Boat menace / by Howard Carter

DEPARTMENTS:

MESSAGE FROM THE PUBLISHER

WARBIRD & CLASSIC REPORT
Rod Lewis and his Constellation lead off this month’s Report / by Doug Fisher

FRIDAY NIGHT OLDIES
More Kodachromes of surplus ex-military aircraft / by Doug Fisher

DOWN MEMORY’S RUNWAY
Aircraft from aviation’s glorious past / by Norm Taylor

AIRLINES
News and views from the readers of Air Classics