Champions of Flight celebrates the work of Clayton Joseph Knight (1891-1969) and William John Heaslip (1898-1970), the two preeminent American aviation artists of their time, who chronicled the golden age of aviation - from Charles Lindbergh's epochal transatlantic flight through the most devastating war in world history (1927-1945). Knight and Heaslip were experienced military men and formally trained artists who, combining an authenticity of experience...

"Operation Pointblank was the code name for the United States Army Air Force's attempt to destroy German fighter capability through the use of strategic bombing in advance of the D-Day landings ... Accompanied by detailed maps and illustrations, this book examines the entire operation from both the Allied and German perspectives, focusing on the strategic and tactical decisions that determined the outcome."--Cover p. [iv].