Keesler Air Force Base (3 results)

Stapled Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. good manual, stapled. some light wear and soiling on covers. pages are clean and unmarked.

28x21.5 cm (large octavo), pp. [1-40] (not paginated), mostly illustrations, self wrappers, stapled. First edition. "Copyright July, 1942, Keesler Field Exchange" on page [2]. A profusely illustrated souvenir booklet for Keesler Field. At the time, Keesler Field (now Keesler AFB) near Biloxi, Mississippi, was the site of the Army Air Force Technical School and one of the Army's basic training centers. During most of the WW II period the focus was upon specialized training in Consolidated B-24 Liberator maintenance. The Tuskegee Airmen were trained at Keesler. A few humorous comments in the text by an airplane mechanic who trained at Keesler Field. Light wear at edges, crease at the top right corner of first leaf, a very good copy. (#168042).

Unpaged - 36 pages plus covers. Staple-bound paperback: H 27.75cm x L 21.25cm. Color pictorial paper covers with spots of surface abrasion. Four-line ink inscription of Keesler Field private dated December 1942 on front cover's verso. Interior pages are otherwise clean. Some rust to staples but binding is firm. B/w photographs throughout with b/w cartoons on pages 18-19. Scarce Army Air Force Keesler Field wartime publication for which OCLC locates copies at four member institutions (another 36 page publication was also issued in 1942 under altered title "Keesler Field, Mississippi; We'll Keep 'Em Flying!" for which OCLC only locates a single institutional holding at University of Southern Mississippi).