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WWI Aviators, Six Photo Albums. Six volumes filled with photographs compiled during the first World War by a pilot trained at Princeton who shipped over to Europe to carry out manned reconnaissance flights with camera equipment; hundreds of photos documenting the flyers' stateside education and deployment overseas, including shots of zeppelins, crashed planes, aerial shots, and scenes of everyday life; the subjects are pilots from the III Corps Observation Group, Air Service, First United States Army, 88th Aero Squadron, they shipped over for reconnaissance missions, they began to see combat and were mobilized as a fighting squadron in May of 1918; a notable group includes eight portraits of pilots in their gear, some signed; [together with] a copy of the book, Fletcher Ladd McCordic 1st Lieut. 88th Aero Squadron A.E.F. (1891-1919) a Tribute, Chicago: Privately Printed, 1921.
Estimate $1,000-1,500
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