Song and Service Book for Ship and Field; Army and Navy

United States Government Printing Office, Washington, DC. 1942. Hardcover. Edition not stated. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good; light wear to head and tail; small nicks to fabric on board top rear edge; scuffing to boards. No DJ. Dark blue cloth boards and spine with bright yellow lettering on the front board. 192 pp 16mo. This book was put together by an agreement of the Army and Navy chaplains in 1940 to have a spiritual book to meed the needs of our men on land and sea. The prayers and other aids to worship have been selected, not to replace prayer books or missals, but to furnish aids for congregational assistance at the services in field and aboard ship. This copy is stamped on the FFFP and the rear pastedown "U.S. Marine Corps, Base Chapel, MCB, San Diego." On the FFFP there are seven songs in pencil with page numbers for easy location by the chaplain/owner for services at the MCB. The MCB term was used 1924-1948. A clean very presentable copy.