WWII Civilian Training Program Reference Book "Two Hundred Thousand Flyers" with Dust Jacket
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WWII Civilian Training Program Reference Book "Two Hundred Thousand Flyers" with Dust Jacket

Code: afb20001b

$170.00


Product Description

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ARTIFACT: This is a great hardcover 1945 first edition of "Two Hundred Thousand Flyers: The Story of the Civilian-AAF Pilot Training Program" by World War I veteran of the United States Navy, Willard Wiener. The book is a great reference for the USAAF Civilian Training Program, with information on all participating companies and fields. There are sixteen pages of black and white photographs at the end of the book, along with an index. This book comes with its original dust jacket.

VINTAGE: Published 1945.

SIZE: 196 pages with 16 additional pages of photographs at end; approximately 9-1/2" in height and 6-3/8" in width and 3/4" in thickness.

MATERIALS / CONSTRUCTION: Cloth-bound cover, paper, glossy paper dustjacket.

ATTACHMENT: Glued binding.

MARKINGS: WASHINGTON THE INFANTRY JOURNAL; COPYRIGHT 1945 BY INFANTRY JOURNAL INC. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AMERICAN BOOK-STRATFORD PRESS, INC., NEW YORK.

ITEM NOTES: This is from a United States Army Air Forces collection which we will be listing more of over the next few months. VDEX05 LADEX6/13 PsLAGJX04/21

CONDITION: 8- (Very Fine-Excellent): The book has some tears to the dust jacket but the rest of the book shows only light aging without any rips, stains or writing inside.

GUARANTEE: As with all my artifacts, this piece is guaranteed to be original, as described.