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Title: A great find for me :)
Post by: BiPoLaR on January 08, 2009, 11:29:53 AM

Here are some "books" i found in a yard sale.
anyone have any idea what i might have here?
They are from WW2

(http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o223/bmoore_2007/7-1.jpg)
(http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o223/bmoore_2007/6.jpg)
(http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o223/bmoore_2007/5-2.jpg)
(http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o223/bmoore_2007/4-1.jpg)
(http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o223/bmoore_2007/3-2.jpg)
(http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o223/bmoore_2007/2-2.jpg)

Title: Re: A great find for me :)
Post by: Tec on January 08, 2009, 11:35:40 AM

Quote from: BiPoLaR on January 08, 2009, 11:29:53 AM

anyone have any idea what i might have here?


(http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o223/bmoore_2007/7-1.jpg)
(http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o223/bmoore_2007/6.jpg)
(http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o223/bmoore_2007/5-2.jpg)
(http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o223/bmoore_2007/4-1.jpg)
(http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o223/bmoore_2007/3-2.jpg)
(http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o223/bmoore_2007/2-2.jpg)

Some very very dry reading I assume, but that's an awesome score no doubt.  I woulda snatched those up in a heartbeat!

Title: Re: A great find for me :)
Post by: Serenity on January 08, 2009, 11:57:05 AM

Beautiful! I picked up an Instrument Flying handbook from 1942, very similar looking to that first image at a flea market in Texas for about .5$

Title: Re: A great find for me :)
Post by: Treize69 on January 08, 2009, 12:01:14 PM

You can find a lot of stuff like that if you keep an eye out for it, people selling a box of grandpas old books, or old women getting rid of their husbands junk thats been sitting in the attic for decades.

I've gotten a lot of very old editions of books that way, though so far nothing as good as those. Best I've got is my grandfathers "soldiers handbook" from basic training in 1942. Had my great uncles flight log from the CAP in the late '40s too, but that disappeared probably 15 years ago.

Title: Re: A great find for me :)
Post by: BiPoLaR on January 08, 2009, 12:09:49 PM

these books belonged to a Cpt. j.b. Reiber. 38th bombardment group, 71st Squadron.
but thats all i know on him.
 

Title: Re: A great find for me :)
Post by: Treize69 on January 08, 2009, 12:11:24 PM

Quote from: BiPoLaR on January 08, 2009, 12:09:49 PM

these books belonged to a Cpt. j.b. Reiber. 38th bombardment group, 71st Squadron.
but thats all i know on him.
 

Have you googled him? Or asked Dan? (Dan Knows All)

Having the group and squadron should make it relatively easy to track down at least a little bit of info on him.

Title: Re: A great find for me :)
Post by: zuii on January 08, 2009, 12:29:43 PM

Way cool find!


zuii

Title: Re: A great find for me :)
Post by: JimmyC on January 08, 2009, 12:33:16 PM

well <<S>> to Cpt. j.b. Reiber. 38th bombardment group, 71st Squadron.

 :salute

Title: Re: A great find for me :)
Post by: texasmom on January 08, 2009, 01:15:19 PM

This links on this page give some interesting info referencing 38th/71st/Townsville (shown as Townsville, Queensland in the hand written info on your scan)
http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/38thbomb.htm

Title: Re: A great find for me :)
Post by: Treize69 on January 08, 2009, 01:16:41 PM

Townsville was the "home base" for the Coastwatchers. Should be relatively easy to find info on it and its units/personnel. Not like it was an isolated base in the outback.

Title: Re: A great find for me :)
Post by: BiPoLaR on January 08, 2009, 01:53:07 PM

i almost forgot. I found this in one of the books. I have no clue what it is or what it means

(http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o223/bmoore_2007/3-3.jpg)

Title: Re: A great find for me :)
Post by: uptown on January 08, 2009, 01:56:44 PM

Looks like a scoring sheet for a bomber crew

Title: Re: A great find for me :)
Post by: Hajo on January 08, 2009, 02:43:56 PM

BiP....hang on to that book.  Don't sell it.  It's History.

Search......dig deeper....it's provenance.  Something very special could develop with some digging.

Title: Re: A great find for me :)
Post by: Treize69 on January 08, 2009, 02:50:04 PM

Quote from: BiPoLaR on January 08, 2009, 01:53:07 PM

i almost forgot. I found this in one of the books. I have no clue what it is or what it means

(http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o223/bmoore_2007/3-3.jpg)

Must be the stats they accumulated each mission to increase their abilities.

J/K, but it does look like the abilities row on some RPG and simulation games.

Title: Re: A great find for me :)
Post by: BiPoLaR on January 08, 2009, 07:05:24 PM

youve been playing games too long...lol