A new book in my library.

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Good stuff Paul. What's the Mossie book like?
I think Bowyer has written as much on the Mosquito as Shakespear has written plays and sonets !
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Terry,

I really don't know much about the mosquito and why I picked up the book. This one is a 1st edition copy and I was lucky to get it cheaper than Amazon and has 494 pages on all aspects of the mosquito. It has illustrations, units flown with, production numbers and all kinds of info. Some of the info in the pages. I hope you can read it.
 

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Thanks Paul. From what you've shown, it's one of his earlier works - the 'basic' story - so I won't bother getting it.
He's since written so many books covering the Mossie and its uses/history, and some specialised volumes, I easily lose track of what's what!
And he still owes me 'royalties' for the jacket cover for one of his books which used one of my paintings !
 
Okay lads, I may have stumbled across something very significant this past weekend. As you know I was at the Geneseo Air Show. There was a vendor there who was selling used aviation books and I came across this one.



Now this is one very nice book on the P-47 and I was pleased as punch when the gentleman told me the price of $2.00.

Now this is where it gets very, very interesting, not so much because of the book but because of what I found pressed between the pages. As I was thumbing through the book I found this piece of paper.



Putting two and two together and getting four, the books publishing date coincides with the date of the P-47 Thunderbolt Pilots Association Inc. meeting. Unless I am a few Cheerios short of a bowl full it would appear the author and publisher, Mr. Warren Bodie attended this meeting to introduce his book to the assembled. Looking at the sheet of paper one can also logically conclude that there was a pilot signing session and the following four P-47 pilots signed this paper.



Gabreski had 28 kills, Johnson 27, Strait 13.5 and Grant had 7.

Now I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer but I immediately realized, that should my deductions be correct, I have stumbled across a piece of aviation history gold. All four pilot signatories have passed on and a quick search on the internet has lead me to only a couple of dead end e mail addresses to help seek confirmation. The P-47 Pilot Association Ltd disbanded back in the early 2000's.

I will continue to search but I am also seeking assistance from anyone who feels up to a bit of detective work. The signatures are the paper are clearly ink, not printed so I am convinced without any information to the contrary that they are original.

Just further proof that one never knows what one may stumble across if you dig a bit.

Cheers,

Jeff
 
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Great catch there Jeff !
Ever since I found some typed letters in a second-hand book on the B-24, I now look through all used books I buy. The letters were correspondence between former B-24 crew members in the USA, where the book originated, although bought in the UK.
Then I got a first edition copy of 'Pathfinders and War' for a pittance, and found it had been signed, at the book launch, by Hamish Mahaddie, plus two other former 'Pathfinders', and the author !
It's the sort of thing you can't put a price on, but you can bet that, if auctioned, your book, and certificate, would fetch a heck of a lot more than you paid for it - not that I'd expect you to auction it of course !
 

I'll be hanging on to her for quite awhile. No intention to get rid of the book or the signatures.

Jeff
 
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