Skip to main content
Esquire Classic
Issues
Topics
Contributors
Sign In
Subscribe
ARTICLES
LAST GREAT AIR BATTLE
The Marianas Turkey Shoot wiped out Japanese air power and ended an era
July
1
1959
PETER MAAS
LAST GREAT AIR BATTLE
PETER MAAS
July
1
1959
View Article Pages
ARTICLES
LAST GREAT AIR BATTLE
The Marianas Turkey Shoot wiped out Japanese air power and ended an era
July
1
1959
PETER MAAS
Sign In to read this article
Get instant access to 85+ years of Esquire.
Subscribe Now!
Exclusive & Unlimited access to
Esquire Classic - The Official Esquire Archive
Every issue Esquire has ever published, since 1933
Every timeless feature, profile, interview, novella - even the ads!
85+ Years of outstanding fiction from world-renowned authors
More than 150,000 Images — beautiful High-Resolution photography, zoom into every page
Unlimited Search and Browse
Bookmark all your favorites into custom Collections
Enjoy on Desktop, Tablet, and Mobile
View Full Issue
More From This Issue
FICTION
WAKE UP, STUPID
July
1959
By
MARK HARRIS
PERSONALITIES
PORTRAIT OF A PARADOX OR HOW TO BE NICE THOUGH PRESIDENT
July
1959
By
MARTIN MAYER
POLITICS
THE FUTURE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
July
1959
By
Senator Jacob Javits
FICTION
the venus clock
July
1959
By
IRA WALLACH
ARTICLES
the mass leisure class
July
1959
By
PAUL GOODMAN
PERSONALITIES
WORLDS MOST POWERFUL MUSICIAN
July
1959
By
JOSEPH WECHSBERG
Unlock every article Esquire has ever published.
Subscribe Now!
Exclusive & Unlimited access to
every timeless profile, interview, short story, feature, advertisement
, and much more!
More From This Issue
FICTION
WAKE UP, STUPID
July
1959
By
MARK HARRIS
PERSONALITIES
PORTRAIT OF A PARADOX OR HOW TO BE NICE THOUGH PRESIDENT
July
1959
By
MARTIN MAYER
POLITICS
THE FUTURE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
July
1959
By
Senator Jacob Javits
War
cartoon
“Boy, Will I Be Glad to Get Back to the States an’ See Women with Shoes On!”
SEPTEMBER 1944
pictorial features
Priority, Chinese Style
SEPTEMBER 1945
HAWKS, DOVES AND DODOS
Vietnam: Unthinking the Thinkable
AUGUST 1966
PETER MAAS
Personality
The Plastic Personality of Jonathan Winters
MAY, 1959
By
PETER MAAS
PERSONALITIES
The Missile-Age Executive
JUNE,1956
By
PETER MAAS
Features
Lawyers, Guns, and Money
JANUARY 1992
By
PETER MAAS
ARTICLES
Articles
New York's New Napoleon of Haute Cuisine
SEPTEMBER,1959
By
GILBERT MILLSTEIN
Articles
Mel Brooks Says This Is the Funniest Man in the World
JUNE 1976
By
Harry Stein
articles
Hail and Farewell
DECEMBER 1945
By
M. HARBORD
Get instant access to 85+ years of Esquire.
Subscribe Now!
Exclusive & Unlimited access to
Esquire Classic
Everything Esquire has ever published