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Post by pat perry on Dec 14, 2013 8:17:54 GMT 9
Just finished USAF Interceptors by our own Marty Isham & David McLaren. Great book with many pictures of all the Interceptors flown by ADC. Great job Marty & David! Pat P. Amazon |
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Post by pat perry on May 2, 2022 1:04:10 GMT 9
Just finished USAF Interceptors by our own Marty Isham & David McLaren. Great book with many pictures of all the Interceptors flown by ADC. Great job Marty & David! Pat P. Amazon
Pat McGee (MOW) has updated Alumni Marty's page:
"Marty was a career Air Force member. He was a technical illustrator and Historian for Air Defense Command who had a career that involved everything from jumping into the Ho Chi Minh trail at night with MACVSOG to giving Presidential briefings for President Carter. While based at HQ ADC in Colorado Springs, during his lunch hours he hand copied the entire set of aircraft data cards for every one of a/c that were assigned to ADC. After retiring from the Air Force, he became a staff member of the "TAC ATTACK" magazine and worked with the Fighter Weapons School at Nellis AFB, NV. He wrote several books to include "U.S. Air Force Interceptors: A Military Photo Logbook 1946 1979."
Please let us know if you find Marty's Obituary or have any stories about him to share. Many of our pilots and maintainers have history with ADC & ADTAC Fighter Interceptors and have written books and may have met Marty J Isham.
Thanks,
Pat P.
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Post by Diamondback on May 2, 2022 1:48:29 GMT 9
I couldn't find an obit, but maybe the Las Vegas Review-Journal's archives might be a lead. The guys on Hyperscale did a "group-build" thread showing off their ADC birds in his memory, including a nice render of Balls 4 by former Finescale Modeler editor Paul Boyer. Marty was a treasure not just among historians and veterans, but modelers as well. www.tapatalk.com/groups/hyperscale/marty-isham-has-passed-t506215.html |
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Post by pat perry on May 2, 2022 2:37:16 GMT 9
I couldn't find an obit, but maybe the Las Vegas Review-Journal's archives might be a lead. The guys on Hyperscale did a "group-build" thread showing off their ADC birds in his memory, including a nice render of Balls 4 by former Finescale Modeler editor Paul Boyer. Marty was a treasure not just among historians and eterans, but modelers as well. www.tapatalk.com/groups/hyperscale/marty-isham-has-passed-t506215.html
Modelers have always been big fans of Fighter Interceptor pictures. I think many of Pat McGee's Guest F-106 Forum Visitors every day are looking for pictures for models they want to build. They can see everything they want without logging in unless they want to visit Purgatory [Members Only] content or ask questions in the other Threads.
Thanks,
Pat P.
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Post by Diamondback on May 2, 2022 2:55:36 GMT 9
Off-Topic: Pat, I'd suspect some of it's because the ADC markings were more colorful and eye-catching than SAC and TAC "blah camo," much like the cacophony of color that was the WWI "flying circuses" and the Mighty Eighth's pivot from OD-over-gray to high-visibility recognition markings and natural metal in the ETO. Wish I could have found a direct line to Paul back in the mid-2000s, his prep on Balls 4 would have been a big headstart on my aborted-by-theft Balls 54 build.
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