first edition
1942 · Baton Rouge, La
Baton Rouge, La: Army and Navy Publishing Co, 1942. 1st [and probably only edition]. photos, 124p. Original blue cloth. 31 cm. Extramities rubbed withmodest loss of cloth at cover corners and at ends of backstrip. Front cover slightly warped. Internally sound and clean. Shaw Field trained over 8600 pilots during World War II, none of them African Amnerican. Pages 120-124 print individual pictures of African American servicemen who served at Shaw Field in Detachment Headquarters Second Platoon, 15th Aviation Squadron, 15 Aviation Squdron Station Hospital and 907th Quartermaster (Colored).
(Inventory #: 94155)