The Jolly Rogers by John Stanaway

No group of fliers since the Flying Tigers of China has ever emerged from the war with greater glory than the world-famous Liberator unit . . . the Jolly Rogers. Month after month, since September 1942, American newspapers and magazines have brimmed over with colorful stories about this most colorful of all B-24 outfits. Less celebrated Liberator units have complained that all these laurels fell to the Jolly Rogers because of their fascinating name and twin-tail insignia - a huge skull surmounting two crossed bombs. But the history of the Jolly Rogers tells its own story. In this book you will find the faces of the men who were and still are the Jolly Rogers. But more - the editors of this book have tried to capture the flavor of life in the Southwest Pacific. No book about any Air Corps unit could ever be complete without the laughter, the irritation, the discomfort, the natives . . . the backdrop against which the greatest of all human dramas was played. It is with a sense of deep reverence and humility that this book is dedicated to the men whom no book could ever honor sufficiently . . . the men of the Jolly Rogers who died for their country.

• Written by John Stanaway
• Hardcover, 112 pages