The Tim Mee Toys Armed Forces by Kevin Konen konens4@msn.com has many great photos in it. There are many items I had as a kid, but molded in other colors. These deuce and a half trucks I had several of those in green, but he shows them in red and other colors too. 
The other fascinating part is the advertisements. This allows the collector to see what was for sale at what time. So you can get an idea how old an item is based on the date of the advertising. It also tells you when you have a complete set, because often after 50 years sets will be missing parts. Here he shows an ad for an atomic cannon and then the genuine article. It is a strange self propelled gun on wheels. It looks much like a wheeled version of an M109 howitzer.
The book also includes foreign troops and new items that are part of the Tim Mee collection. I did not even know Tim Mee made foreign troops until just recently. As a kid I would have loved to have Russian soldiers to fight against.
Perhaps the most useful part of the book is the clear photograph of all the US Army Tim Mee figure poses and several figure variants. I had no idea there were these often not too subtle differences in these figures. I highly recommend this very well done book on Tim Mee Army Men.
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