[Naval Aviation History / Vietnam War Era]. Adams, Rick (?) - NAVAL AVIATOR PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, 1968 - 1971

Divers places, including San Francisco & Corpus Christi: , 1971. Red faux-leather commercial photograph album, red cord tie. "Photographs" gilt stamped to front cover, with gilt stamped geometric design to upper left. Album with 30 leaves of black mounting paper, 27 with ~ 250+ [mostly] color snapshot-style photographs, attached at top, many with captions to verso. Some loose & laid-in. Album: 11" x 14". Photographs: 3-1/2" x 3-1/2" Like most young men in the late 60s / early 70s that pursued a career in Naval Aviation, the compiler of this album was focused primarily on three things: airplanes, cars & members of the opposite sex. Mr Adams (?) was a Corvette fan, apparently owning a 1968 big-block. We find images from VT-10, as well as VT-29, in Corpus Cristi TX, places where he was, no doubt, stationed during flight training. We find pictures of Ms Anita Deppe [amongst many, many others], and from a Disneyland souvenir, we surmise she was a girlfriend from this period. An interesting pictorial record of a young naval avaitor's budding carreer, at the height of the Vietnam war [which, surprisingly enough, gets no mention whatsoever in this young man's album]. Modest wear to album covers, VG+. Most photographs VG+.