I am about 1/3 through reading this fascinating paperback book about the pacific air war, Grumman aircraft and their development of the aircraft used in the pacific, etc.
You "old salts" may be familiar with it but I ran across it in the bookstore of a assistance ministry where it had been donated for sale.
Lots of detail about things I already knew and had read about and other things I had not heard.
"Pacific War" by David Sears published 2011 by Da Capo Press.