Author: JACKSON, Robert
Title: Fighter Pilots of World War II
Description: New York, St. Martin's Press, 1976. Hardcover. 8vo. Red paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 156pp. Very good/very good. Spotting to top page edges, else binding tight and handsome; jacket a tad edgeworn with spine lightly sunned and couple of archivally closed (on verso) tears. Just a book club edition of these profiles of 14 of the greatest fighter aces -- with choice autograph addition: Tipped to front flyleaf is a fine, heavy stock 5" X 3" card signed large and bold in blue fineline by Johnnie Johnson, who dates it 7 November 1988 at upper right. Tipped in above this is a fine 5" X 3¼" printed "With the Compliments of / Air Vice Marshal Johnson" slip. Laid in is the ideal bookmark: Johnson's original transmittal envelope. Johnson (1915-2001) was the Royal Air Force officer who brought down 34 Nazi fighter planes during the war, making him one of the highest-scoring British aces ever. .

Keywords: Military History Aviation


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