AIRCRAFT SPOTTERS GUIDE: 1942

I’ve got a bunch of items in my room that I sometimes forget exist— there’s a comic rack I basically use to hold a mixture of various coffee table-like and various odds and ends I’ve found at antique shops over the years. One of them being this REALLY cool aircraft spotters guide from 1942. In this specific copy, it contained the notes that which seemed like they were written by a young-ish boy. It also contained corrected illustrations of the tail-wing markings from the stock images used in the graphics of the pamphlet. This is such a genuinely cool piece of history to me because it was very clearly a boy too young to fight in the war doing his individual part to support the war effort— which meant keeping his eyes in the domestic sky for any possible enemy planes, identifying them with tail markings & their silhouettes.

It’s a really cool guide that identifies pretty much any model of plane being flown at the time of WWII by any country with a military.