15th Mar, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
Lot 88
 

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USAAF 381st Bombardment Group Final watch logbook from Ridgewell air force base, 7-8-44 -...

USAAF 381st Bombardment Group
Final watch logbook from Ridgewell air force base, 7-8-44 - 20-6-45, later bound in cloth; pp. c.110.
This log book records the flights through Ridgewell in the final year of the war, up to the point the group left the base for good (including final message from the Air Traffic Center, Uxbridge "We quit!" A detailed, though focused, track of the movements of men and materiel through Essex and a fascinating survival.
with Mackay
, Ron, Ridgewell's Flying Fortresses, 2000 (a history of the group at Ridgewell) and 8 other publications, including two Pilot's and Flight Engineer's Notes, two issues of Evidence in Camera (1944) and an Air Ministry Weekly Intelligence Summary (1945). [10]

Sold for £500
Estimated at £150 - £250


 

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