Incredible WWII Seaplane PBY Catalina PBM Mariner Patrol Bombing Lot Files Book

Description

A treasure trove of over 40 WWII seaplane training, tactics, results and other documents from the files of a WWII seaplane pilot and Air Combat Intelligence officer in the Pacific theater.  Each of these documents is original and most are multiple pages. Some are marked Secret; most others are labeled either Confidential or Restricted. This is a true museum-quality lot of one-of-a-kind documents for the researcher or serious collector.
The lot includes:
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Maps:
3 of Japan including on-shore targets such as airfields and night search plans.
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Flight School:
Stalls; Spins; Formation tactics; New officers reporting for duty etiquette; Rules of conduct and flight; Receipt invoice for pilot gear; Schedule for flight instructors; Room cleanliness; File card record; NACIS News; Pocket Signal Disk; Air Combat School Fleet Radio Communication Systems
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Pacific Fleet and Japan
: Location Aeronautical Units Iwo Jima, etc; Enemy ships sunk June 1945; Graph of ships attacked / damaged; Distance from Tokyo Bay chart (draft + final); Take-off delay memo; Seaplane courier schedule; Japanese ship tonnage ranges chart; Japanese Strategic Radar Installations Sightings and Attacks (marked Secret); Tentative seadrome instructions (marked Secret); Seaplane Search tactics; ETA memo; 5 June 1945 Search Plans; Air Combat Briefing Sheet 13 August 1945; PR forms; Seaplane Ops review USS St George; Air Battle Notes - Mariners Give the Mikado the Hotfoot; Seadrome Night Operations, Tokyo; Radar picket review; Seaplane Ops Review; Anti-Shipping Tactics (marked Secret); Air Battle Notes - Mariners Splash an Oscar; Analysis of Seaplane Search Activities; Air-Submarine Coordination doctrine; Submarine - Aircraft Cooperation; VPB-18 theme song; Crews News newsletter / USS Cumberland Sound; Tender 16 newsletter / USS St George; Pied Piper newsletter / USS Hamlin; USS Cumberland Sound photo;
Submarine Area Frequency Plan Dog; P
hoto of pilot who brought all this back.
Overall Good or Very Good condition with edge wear. Some staples are tearing. Some documents are tanned and becoming brittle. Others are still supple. All documents are legible and display really well.
A capstone to any WWII aviation collection, especially for the Mariner or Catalina. I have only scanned the few pages of these documents. There is information here that the buyer will be the first to read in over 50 years.
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