The First Yale Unit A Story of Naval Aviation. 1916-1919.
Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1925. Two volumes. Like new.
Vol I: octavo, frontispiece, [xiv], 306 pp., 44 photo plates; minor rubbing to bottom and top of spine section, gilt insignia intact, a fine copy in original blue cloth.
Vol II: octavo, frontispiece, [x], 400 pp., 41 photo plates; minor rubbing to bottom of spine section, minor rubbing on corners of front board, gilt insignia intact, a fine copy in original blue cloth. Volume 1 is devoted to training.
Volume 2 to the war service at Felix-Stowe, Dunkirk, with the Northern Bombing Group and many other air stations during W.W.I. Includes the letters of David Ingalls and an account of operations out of Killingholme. One of the few important works on the part played by US naval aviation in the Great War. Item #51
Price (AUD): $750.00