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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.
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 ¾" in thickness.
MATERIALS / CONSTRUCTION:
Cloth-bound cover, paper.
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; CRESPI CARMELITE HIGH SCHOOL ENCINO, CALIFORNIA LIBRARY stamp on a few of the pages.
ITEM NOTES:
This is from a United States Army Air Forces collection which we will be listing more of over the next few months. VAFX06 LHEX6/13 SHEX7/13
CONDITION:
7 (Very Fine): The book has only light wear to the cover, writing on a handful of the pages and yellowing and tape marks (along with the same library stamp pictured above) on the endpapers.
GUARANTEE: As with all my artifacts, this piece is guaranteed to be original, as described.
