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ARTIFACT:
This is a 1953 bound copy of the CAT (Civil Air Transport) Bulletin, Volume 6, Numbers 1 through 12. This volume includes a timetable insert! CAT was a Chinese airline established in 1946 by famed General and leader of the American Volunteer Group, Claire Chennault, along with Whiting Willauer. The company's airplanes, many of them piloted by former Flying Tigers, first flew humanitarian airlifts and then became integral in Chiang Kai-Shek's efforts against the Communists in China, eventually evacuating Chinese citizens to Taiwan after the fall of his government. In 1950 the CIA acquired CAT and used the airline for secret missions to China even though on the surface it appeared to be solely a civilian airline. These bound volumes originally belonged to Eve Myers, who was Claire Chennault's personal secretary and what appears to be the CAT office manager after he passed away in 1958 (Eve is shown in the last two photos above). CAT became Air America in 1959. Each volume has several photographs (some of Chennault), human interest stories, company information, some AVG reunion articles and tons of super "CAT" advertisements. Also mentioned in this volume is the sad news of the death of Willauer's 13 year-old son. We have several other bound volumes representing different years available for sale separately: please see links at the bottom of this page.
VINTAGE:
Jan. 1953 Š Dec. 1953 (Korean War era).
SIZE:
Volume 6 (No. 1-12), includes timetable insert. Approximately 10-1/2" in height and 7-5/8" in width and 1-3/8" in thickness.
MATERIALS / CONSTRUCTION:
Embossed cloth-bound cover, paper.
ATTACHMENT:
Glued binding.
MARKINGS:
VOL. 6. NO. 1 Š VOL. 6 NO. 12 JAN. 1953 Š DEC. 1953 Eve Myers (embossed upon cover).
ITEM NOTES:
This is from a United States Army Air Forces collection which we will be listing more of over the next few months. VFJX08 LFGEX8/13 SFJJX10/14
CONDITION:
6+ (Fine-Very Fine): The book is in very fine overall condition: some light wear to the cover and heavy wear/some peeling to the spine; some partial separation from the binding in spots; yellowing of endpapers; a few pieces of tape were stuck to pages as bookmarks.
GUARANTEE: As with all my artifacts, this piece is guaranteed to be original, as described.
