BOOK OF MODERN WARPLANES 1942

Continuing with planes from the 1940s I give you a few pages from a book my folks gave my mother's cousin when he was about 12. He proved in his adult years to be a rather lost individual who hurt my grandparents deeply. They had raised him. So he left the book with my grandparents and that is how I ended up with it in my collection.

The book was published in 1942 by Garden City Publishing Co., Inc. in Garden City New York. You can find copies of it for sale on eBay. I'm not finding anything about the author, Squadron Leader Harold H. Booth of the Royal Canadian Air Force.

I have only scanned a few pages because its spine is rather arthritic. You'll notice on the page of the Japanese plane the young cousin drew in his own version of what he wished would befall the Japanese pilot. It's of its time.

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The wing insignia pages are the endsheets, front and back.