ORIG 1941 CHICAGO AIR SHOW PROGRAM HAROLD JOHNSON

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NICE 100% ORIGINAL ( THIS IS NOT A COPY OR SCAN OR ANY OTHER REPRODUCTION ) AUGUST 30, 31 & SEPTEMBER 1 1941 CHICAGO AIR MANEUVERS AIR SHOW OFFICIAL SOUVENIR PROGRAM . HAS DAY SCHEDULES (including a mass parachute jump and an US Army Air Corps formation demonstartion with Curtiss P-40 pursuit ships) & SHORT BIO'S OF PARTICIPATING AVIATORS INCLUDING HAROLD JOHNSON WHO FLEW A FULL LOW LEVEL AEROBATIC ROUTINE IN HIS FORD TRIMOTOR , WILL ROLLINS HEAD OF SALES FOR ROLLINS AVIATION A CULVER AIRCRAFT DISTRIBUTOR, PARACHUTIST CARL RUPERT & STUNT PILOTS CORT BOHLE , PERCY CHAFFEE , KEN OLSEN , DEAN KRITES , JOHNNY BOOMSMA AND RUSS HOPF . ALSO HAS GREAT AD'S FOR CULVER AIRCRAFT ( featuring a Culver Cadet ), FLYING MAGAZINE , SHELL AVIATION , AND CHICAGO AIR COLLEGE AND AN EARLY AD FOR AOPA THE AIRCRAFT OWNERS AND PILOTS ASSOCIATION . 16 PAGES, STAPLE BOUND AND MEASURING 8.5" x 11" ON HEAVY STOCK SEMI-GLOSSY PAPER IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. A GREAT AIR SHOW PROGRAM PREDATING PEARL HARBOR AND FULL OF GREAT GOLDEN AGE OF AVIATION INFORMATION !! From the collection of noted aviation collector and historian Bob Steele, who was a WWII USMC combat photographer and after the war became a free lance news photographer in the LA area working primarily for the LA Herald Examiner and the Daily News. Please read item description in full, item is exactly as read more