AAFTC MORALE SINGING PROGRAM KEESLER FIELD SONG BOOK. (Front cover title: "Keesler Field Song Book.") [U.S. Army Air Forces Training Command World War II song booklet for Keesler Army Airfield, Biloxi, Mississippi.]

1, [1], 2-31 pages plus covers. Staple-bound paperback booklet: H 13.6cm x L 10.3cm. Tan paper covers well rubbed with worn/curled corners; shallow losses at spine fold ends; front cover illustration by Pvt. M. Phillip Brady with three-line form for owner's name, etc. which has been filled by soldier's ink inscription. Interior leaves have some soiling and foxing as well as being creased/curled at fore-edge corners; a few blue ink smudges with blue ink number notations correcting stanza sequence on page 26. Binding staples rusted but holding. Title page credits Commanding Officer Colonel Robert E.M. Goolrick, Director of Band Training Lieutenant Colonel Harry G. Douglass, and Post Morale Singing Officer 2nd Lieutenant Alexander M. Sulloway. Text comprised of song lyrics only without any musical scores. OCLC only locates two copies at member institutions with Berea College evidently owning the same 1943 imprint and the University of Mississippi possessing a 1944 imprint. Only a good+ copy but US Army Air Forces base-printed soldier morale material is exceptionally uncommon as it would have been issued to servicemen in training and discarded prior to an overseas combat assignment.…