James Dietz

[2] Dietz's major works include Maximum Effort, a commission for the 449th Bomb Group Association who were veterans of the 15th Air Force,[3] Arctic Convoy, Fall of the Falcon,[4] Last Word,[5] and Yanks Mount Up.

[6] His oil painting Bottom of the First, which depicts U.S. soldiers on duty in the Philippines during the Second World War, was the winner of Best in Show in CAE Simuflight's Horizons of Flight Art Exhibition in 2000.

Citizen Soldier and The Crossing, which depicts the 132nd Infantry Regiment at Guadalcanal, are currently on exhibit at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library.

An exhibition of his work entitled Wood and Canvas: the WWI Aviation of James Dietz was on display at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum through January 2014.

These characters had been very prominent in his World War I pieces, that he earned "a reputation as an aviation painter who did not paint airplanes".