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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. All pages are clean. The first two pages have a light crease in the upper right corner, as does the front cover. There is very slight soiling to the front and back covers. There are also some scrape marks on the front cover near the spine. A little wear to top and bottom edges of the spine. The magazine will be packed with a backing card and shipped in a sturdy, flat box to ensure safe transit. This issue includes: "Flight to London" (Buck's talent lies in his ability to tell about a flight like this in such a way that you feel you have actually crossed an ocean with him" by Robert N. Buck; "Half an Airplane" (Unless a person just has to have full-time availability, joint ownership of an airplane is a means of cutting flying costs to a low level) by Richard I. Forrest; "What the 'Tar' Did for Me" (Realize what's happening? These young second-generation pilots are bringing an invaluable competence and calm attitude into private flying) by Pat Gillies; "Sky Tramping" (War II pilots went barnstorming just like War I pilots did, except instead of Jenny's they used C46's and '47's and went 'round the world) by Wallace C. Baker; "Limited Instrument Flying" (Getting on instruments is as serious a thing as there is in flying, but based on proper training and equipment, there's a form of flying that consists mainly in keeping off instruments and it pays big dividends) by Leighton Collins; "Etc." (If you want to know how the birds feel, fly an L-19. Voltage regulators. The CAA's got the horizon and relative wind mixed up. Flying L Ranch); and "Air Mail".

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. Illustrated by Holbrooke, Pat; Szyk, Arthur; Gillies, Bill; Godwin, Frank;Schmidt, Al; Bensing, Frank; Beaven, Frank (illustratore). First Edition. 74 pages. Features: Cover illustration of smiling sailor on phone holding wedding ring; What the Nazis Leave Behind - Maurice Hindus reports on the peasant Russian village of Pohoreloye, and the condition it was left in after German occupation (with color illustration of looting Nazi by Arthur Szyk); "Dear Mrs. Klepper" - fiction by Isabella Holt; Gabriel in Jive - photo-illustrated article on trumpet player and band leader Harry James; Fire and Blood in the Jungle - Herman Bottcher's Jap-killing feats earned him a captain's commission in one 17-day battle- article with photo; Shutter Bug (fiction by Robert S. Mansfield); New Warps and Strange Woofs - coal, wood, iron, and glass will be the ingredients of milady's clothing in the future; There Was an Old Woman (fiction); Our Army Gets Ready to Take Over Axis Territory - article with photos including Brig. General C.W. Wickersham, commandant of the Army's School of Military Government; Black Plague (fiction by Hugh Pentecost); Stalk the Hunter (fiction by Mitchell Wilson); Movie reviews; Interesting back page article by Paul Hunter pays tribute to Russia on the second anniversary of its invasion by Germany, with excellent photo of massive military parade through Moscow; Nice color-photo back cover ad for Chesterfield cigarettes features dashing young U.S.N. flyboy leaning on his plane while his mate paints another Japanese kill onto it; and more. Middle page loose but present, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A quality vintage copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Liberty Magazine, July 3, 1943 - Band Leader Harry James / Blood-Chilling Eyewitness Account from Formerly German-Occupied Soviet Village What the Nazis Leave Behind - Maurice Hindus reports on the peasant Russian village of Pohoreloye, and the conditio.