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Research on this history of the USAAF Aircraft Camouflage, Markings and Colors started in the early 1960s, and received official help 1965 onward, from the US Air Force.
Maj. Larry Brown, Col. C. V. Glines, Maj. Paul K. Kahl, Lt. Col. Mary Mackie, and Lt. Col. Robert A. Webb, all gave the support needed to get the research going and obtained many of the required photographs.
At the USAF Museum, Dayton, Ohio, Royal D. Frey provided facilities to copy the huge number of documents to support the research.
Other personnel providing help at the various government agencies included A. Essenpreis, Virginia Fincik, John W. Gross, Raymond K. Loberg, Wilber J. Nigh, Gary D. Ryan, Edward Shirley, and John E. Taylor.
Many photographers and collectors helped to provide the large number of black and white photographs and color slides seen in this volume.
These include the late Col. Robert L. Baseler, USAAF, Maj. Jack M. Elliott, USMCR (ret); Gene Gilmor who gave me the run of the March AFB Museum files; Harry Gann; Gerry R. Markgraf who provided a large number of color slides from the collection of R. B. Starinchak; William L. Swisher, who also sent many others taken by F. Schertzer, Peter M. Bowers, and the late Gordon S. Williams; Paul Talbott of Delta Air Lines; and Nick Williams. Of these, Harry Gann, William L. Swisher, and Paul Talbott, all responded to urgent last-minute calls for many photo-graphs needed to fill out the coverage required.
