Flying Fortress Aviation 1943

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The Flying Fortress hers a great book for the aviation enthusiast. Its everything you could ever want to know about the Bowing B-17 flying fortress by Jim Ray and illustrated by the author its called the inside story. The book is filled with numerous full colored lithographs and they are highly detailed. Almost every page is a lithograph picture of different aspects of the plane Ã,© 1943 by the Garden City Publishing CO. INC. garden city New York. Produced and Lithographed in the USA. By the national process company a little of the forward reads. America is winning her way in the air on many fronts one of the main reasons is that teamwork comes naturally to the American boy and team work spells victory. All the members of the united states air force fighting airmen those who handle the controls guide the ship drop the bombs fire the guns send and receive the radio messages or repair the engines and precision instruments are all members of the team each has its job to their specific tasks are supplementary. Exactly like individual assignments combined to make a completed play in a football game. All this has special application to the crews of the flying fortress the Bowing B-17. These include the pilot, copilot, bombardier navigator, all specialist and highly technical lines equally important are the two waist gunners. The ball read more