Foster Captain John M Usmcr (2 results)

Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: no jacket present. The book is in fair condition, showing signs of age-related wear. The cover has creases and edge wear, with some spine wear visible. The pages are yellowed, consistent with a publication from 1961, but remain intact without any inscriptions or library markings. No dust jacket is present.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Presumed 1st Edition. Maroon boards with gilt titling on a black block to the spine. No dustjacket. this ? may? be a 'doctored' ex library copy as there are traces of something rubbed off the spine (? white tippex numbers? ) and No publisher's detail at the foot of the spine. Internally the inner hinges are strengthened with linen neatly, but again traces of a bookplate or similar having been removed from the front pastedown o/w the book is free of any marks and there are NO inscriptions, labels, stamps or similar. There is only a copyright date given but from other descriptions I am assuming that this is a First US edition. 320 pp. Illustrated in b/w. Epilogue & Appendix. " John Foster joined the US Navy early in 1942 and, after transferring to the marines and completing flight training, he joined the newly formed VMF222, the "Flying Deuces," at Midway. After a brief stop at Guadalcanal's Henderson Field, the squadron went into action at Munda and there began an odyssey which was to last until the end of World War II and which was to take the men of the Flying Deuces from Munda to Vella Lavella (where the Deuces participated in the first fighter sweep over Rabaul) to Bougainville, to the Green Islands, to Samar and finally to Okinawa. John Foster fought side by side with some of the great Heroes of the war - Pappy Boyington, Joe Foss, Robert Hanson, Zeke Swett and many others - and he records their personalities and exploits." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…