Enemy Fire Bombs, Used (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. ENEMY FIRE BOMBS. United States Office of Civilian Defense, Washington DC, March 1943, OCD Publication 2016 10"x 8", 16pp. Includes cross section diagrams for various types of incendiary bombs, all half-page except for three full page images: solid oil incendiary (Japanese); incendiary and HE (Japanese: thermite (Japanese); 1Kg incendiary anti-personnel (Japanese) and full page; magnesium incendiary (German); incendiary and HE (German); incendiary bomb containers (German) full page; phosphorous incendiary (German) full page; incendiary and HE (German). [++] Quite detailed and thorough for a 16-page giveaway by the US government at the beginning of the war. The odd thing too is that for a government publication there are only SIX (!) copies located in WorldCat (Duke, NYPL, UCLA, Stanford, Uwa).[++] Condition here is problematicthere are several tears and chips, and the paper is brittleit is at best a FAIR copy. However, it exists, and it is evidently and surprisingly scarce. [++] Found in: (CHEMICAL WARFARE, A CHECK LIST ) The Library of Congress, Reference Department. March 1, 1943 and SUPPLEMENT NO. 1 June 1, 1944, The Library of Congress Reference Department. Prepared by Charles H. Wentz Washington, D. C, Library of Congress 1944.