Having had the good fortune to read this book in manuscript form, I
was very pleased to be asked to write the foreword to what is a
most interesting and historical publication. My father, Frank
Dailey, was a Marine aviator who served in VF-9M at Quantico in the
1930s so these stories were of great interest to me. This book will
have an appeal to aviation historians and particularly Marine
aviation buffs. It will have a universal appeal to all of those
Marine aviators, aircrew and aviation ground personnel who served
at Quantico from 1918 to the present day. The many photographs of
Quantico and the early Marine Corps aircraft, combine to present a
well balanced and excellent historical record of a segment of our
Marine aviation history, which, until now, has not been published
in this detail and with this many facts, in one volume. John
Elliott has put a great amount of research into writing this book.
He is no stranger to Marine aviation history. In addition to having
lived part of our Marine Corps aviation history for 24 years
(Private in 1941 to retirement as a major and aviation ordnance
officer in 1966), he joined the Smithsonian in 1966 as the Chief,
Collections Branch, National Armed Forces Museum Advisory Board. He
became the Smithsonian%u2019s contract administrator in 1975 and
retired after 18 years with the Smithsonian. He then accepted the
position of Assistant Naval Aviation Historian on the staff of the
Chief of Naval Operations, where he worked for another five years
on both Marine Corps and Navy aviation history. Foremost among his
published works is the Official Monogram US Navy & Marine Corps
Aircraft Color Guide, Volumes I through IV, 1911-1993. He received
the Admiral Arthur Radford Award for excellence in Naval Aviation
History and Literature in 1994 for this work. He is considered the
world%u2019s leading expert on U.S. Navy and Marine Corps aircraft
and paint schemes. He has published articles in Naval Aviation
News, Journal of the American Aviation Historical Society, The
Hook, the journal of the Tail Hook Association, The Marine Corps
Gazette and Leatherneck and the Marine Corps Aviation
Association%u2019s Yellow Sheet and Journal magazines. He has also
written several segments of the Naval Historical Centers%u2019
aviation history publications US Naval Aviation 1910-1995 and
Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons. He has one of the
largest private collections of early Marine Corps aircraft photos.
Though he is now retired, he spends a considerable amount of time
each week answering queries about Marine Corps aviation history and
transmitting his photos around the world via electronic means as
well as serving as a Docent at the National Museum of the Marine
Corps. General J. R. Dailey USMC (Ret) Director, National Air and
Space Museum Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
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