With the Fifth Army Air Force
Subtitle: Photos from the Pacific Theater
Contributors: Eric Bergerud (Foreword)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: October 31, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780801868498
Subjects: Air forces & warfare; American history: Second World War; Australasian & Pacific history: Second World War; European history: Second World War; Photographs: collections; War & defence operations; United States - 20th Century; Second World War, 1939-1945; History: American; United States - General; Military Aircraft - World War II; Military History - World War II; Personal narratives, American; History; History - Military / War; World War, 1939-1945; Europe; Pacific Ocean; USA; Japan; Military - Aviation; History / United States / General; Campaigns; Pictorial works; Military - World War II; United States; 1920-; Gallagher, James P.,
First sentence: In 1942, Baltimore native James P. Gallagher enlisted in the Army Air Force and a year later was on active duty in the Southwest Pacific Theater as a communications officer.
Description: "In 1942, Baltimore native James P. Gallagher enlisted in the Army Air Force and a year later was on active duty in the Southwest Pacific Theater as a communications officer. Among the personal belongings he took was a Baldaxette camera. An amateur photographer, Gallagher hoped one day to put together a scrapbook of his overseas tour. The army made no objections to its airmen taking pictures as long as they avoided radar equipment and Americans killed in action.

Nearly sixty years later, Gallagher's photos have been collected in With the Fifth Army Air Force, a personal photographic record of America's war in the Pacffic."--BOOK JACKET.