April 5, 2024
WWII Aircraft Identification Template Army P-51 Fighter
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Original WWII Identification Model Template Dated 2-23-1943 North American P-51 U.S. army Fighter This is an ORIGINAL aircraft identification template distributed by the U.S. Navy Bureau Of Aeronautics, of the plans used to make identification WWII aircraft models. This one is unused, and a must for your collection. NOT A REPRINT. Made of heavy card stock, and dated 1943. What a nice and rare item for your display. is a bit of information I found on the web: Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Office of Education put out a call to model builders -- particularly school boys -- to construct half a million airplane models just like this one. Initially, the Bureau of Aeronautics Special Devices Division had employed skilled model builders from the Navy. These enlisted men built models of enemy airplanes that they had never even seen before, often relying only on the information found in blurry photographs taken at crash scenes. By February 1942, a total of ninety 1:72 scale official patterns for planes had been devised, arranged in seven sets and distributed to schools participating in the National School Model Building Program around the country. By the end of the following month, the effort had even made the cover of Life magazine, with an article entitled "How to Make Plane Models." Rules for bidding:All items must
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