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ABC Book THE ARMY ABC
NY Sam'l Gabriel Sons 1911 First Edition Pictorial Paper Covers Good
12pp; illustrated throughout, including four pages in full color. Cover wear, few archival repairs; all text and pictures are present and complete. Inscribed on the back cover: "A merry Xmas to Loren / from Aunt Kitt & Uncle John / 6 yrs old, 1919." 14.5" x 7.5" This curious gift to a six-year-old child contains an alphabet keyed to American military subjects: "...R is for Rough Riders, with guns at their side, On spirited broncos, you'll see them all ride....Z is for Zouave, in Arab dress queer, who served in our Army and never knew fear."
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50.00 USD
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Army Air Corps BASE POWER TURRET SCHOOL: INSTRUCTIONS FOR ENTERING AND LEAVING BALL TURRET ... IN-FLIGHT OPERATIONS ... BENCH BORESIGHTING, INSTALLATION AND HARMONIZATION OF SPERRY COMPUTING SIGHT ... GENERAL OPERATION INFORMATION OF LOWER BALL TURRET ... INSTALLATION OF GUN ACCESSORIES ... POSITION SYSTEM OF FIRING.
Rapid City, South Dakota Rapid City Army Air Base 4 February 1944 First Edition Stapled at top Good +
7pp + 6pp, mimeographed on buff paper stock; a bit faint but quite legible. Sergeant's name and serial number at top of first page. The second paper includes drawings of aircraft and diagrams of pursuit. 13" x 8" + 10.5" x 8" The Sperry ball turret, meant for ventral defense needs on aircraft, was used on both the B-17 Flying Fortress and the B-24 Liberator. The ball turret was very small in order to reduce drag, and was typically operated by the shortest man of the crew. To enter the turret, the turret was moved until the guns were pointed straight down. The gunner placed his feet in the heel rests and then crouched down into a fetal position. He would then put on a safety strap, close and lock the turret door. The gunner sat in the turret with his back and head against the rear wall, his hips at the bottom, and his legs held in mid-air by two footrests on the front wall. This left him positioned with his eyes roughly level with the pair of Browning M2 .50 caliber machine guns [adapted from a Wikipedia entry].
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45.00 USD
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Barnes, Anna Maria MARTI: A STORY OF THE CUBAN WAR
Chicago David C. Cook 1899 First Edition Cloth-backed boards Near Fine
96pp; illus from photographs. 8.5" x 6.5" In addition to the story of Marti, son of the British superintendent of a sugar estate, and a Cuban girl, this volume contains a nonfiction section by the author: Some Customs of Brazil; and Will Jesus Have Me? (missionary work among Native Americans).
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25.00 USD
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Behr Advertising Agency OUR DEFENSE FORCES
NY Amsterdam Print & Litho 1941 First Edition Pictorial wraps Very Good
20pp; illus of insignia. Outlines the organization of the various services, ranks, pay, specialties, schools, etc. as the US entered World War II. 6.25" x 3.25"
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10.00 USD
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Bruner, Felix, editor GENERAL MOTORS FOLKS: Victory Is Our Business-- Vol. 7, No. 6, June 1944.
Detroit General Motors First Edition Pictorial Paper Covers Very Good
Large format, 24pp; illus from photographs. Staple at each spine end; contents clean. 14" x 10.25" This patriotic magazine offers a realistic picture of America's homefront during World War II. This issue begins with the number of GM folks in the Armed Forces, along with names and GM jobs of the Honored Dead, Missing, and Prisoners. Stories include: amphibious "ducks" manufactured by Chevrolet; D-Day at Salerno with a Fighting Seabee; Wildcat Fighter Plane Announced; Flight Testing Bomber Engines on the Ground; &c.
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30.00 USD
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Bryce, Viscount James EVIDENCE AND DOCUMENTS LAID BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON ALLEGED GERMAN OUTRAGES
NY Macmillan 1915 First US Edition Original Wraps Very Good
296pp, including 11pp illus from documents. 9.75" x 6" Contents: Details of outrages on civil population in Belgium and France; The use of civilians as a screen; Offences against combatants; Firing on hospitals, stretcher bearers, etc.; Extracts from diaries and papers of German soldiers; Proclamations by German Army authorities; Some articles of the Hague Convention concerning the laws and customs of war; Facsimiles of papers found on German soldiers.
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60.00 USD
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Buswell, Leslie AMBULANCE NO. 10: Personal Letters from the Front.
Boston Houghton Mifflin 1916 First Edition Cloth-backed boards Very Good
pp: xxii, 155; frontispiece, 16pp illus from photographs. 7.75" x 5" Buswell describes "the chivalrous work our young American volunteers are doing in France." Tipped at the back is a printed plea for contributions to the American Amublance Field Service & volunteer ambulance drivers.
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40.00 USD
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Casson, Lieut. Col. Stanley GREECE AGAINST THE AXIS.
Washington DC American Council on Public Affairs 1943 First US Edition Original Wraps Very Good
150pp. Foreword by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. This first-hand account of the British Military Mission, written by an Oxford professor of Classics, describes the situation in Greece during World War II, from the defeat of the Italian Army in October 1940--one of Mussolini's major disasters--to the later betrayal of Greece by the Germans. 9" x 6"
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15.00 USD
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Central Intelligence Agency ATLAS: ISSUES IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Washington USGPO 1973 First Edition Original wraps Very Good Illus from Photographs
40pp; color maps and illus from photographs throughout. Text and charts attempt to trace the basic causes of hostilities among Middle Eastern countries, including views from geographic, sociological, and economic perspectives." 13.5" x 9".
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20.00 USD
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