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Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. 4to. Published by Bruckmann, Munich, Germany. 1946. 286 pgs. Photos. Folding maps. Laid in photo. Laid in Typed, Letter Signed by Curtis LeMay laid in. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Foxing present. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Covers the 85th, 86th & 87th Squadrons. North Africa, & Italy. P-40s and P-47s. The Group was originally activated in 1942 as the 79th Pursuit Group (Interceptor) , becoming the 79th Fighter Group (Single Engine) a few months later. Later that year it moved overseas to Egypt, where it was assigned to Ninth Air Force and participated in combat in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Italy until April 1945. After the end of World War II, it became part of the Army of Occupation until it was inactivated in 1947.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Bruckmann, Munich, Germany. 1946. 286 pgs. Photos. Folding maps. Laid in photo. Laid in Typed, Letter Signed by Curtis LeMay laid in. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Foxing present. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Covers the 85th, 86th & 87th Squadrons. North Africa, & Italy. P-40s and P-47s. The Group was originally activated in 1942 as the 79th Pursuit Group (Interceptor) , becoming the 79th Fighter Group (Single Engine) a few months later. Later that year it moved overseas to Egypt, where it was assigned to Ninth Air Force and participated in combat in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Italy until April 1945. After the end of World War II, it became part of the Army of Occupation until it was inactivated in 1947.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.