1-30-A-M-1.......WWI US ARMY AIR SERVICES BRANCH WINGS......... Replica Reserve US Military Pilot wings, embroidered bullion cloth '1/2' wing design.......measures 2" across...excellent new condition.......worn by US Pilots of WWI era.......well made, the originals are worth about 10x as much as these......just have the one pair......REPLICA......$12

2-2-A-M-1.......THE SERVICE OF INFORMATION (SIGNAL CORPS).....By Brig. Gen. George Scriven, Chief Signal Officer of the Army.....1915...printed in Washington at the Gov't Printing Office........Circular No. 8, Office of the Chief Signal Officer........most fascinating book regarding early century US Army Signal Corps ...... while outlining the entire corps, Scriven includes chapter soley on Air Craft.........he wisely comments ' The signal corps is intrusted with the air service of the army, undoubtably the most important, as it is the most recent, auxiliary in the collection and transmission of military information' .....specific information included throughout book, division size, officer alotment, detachment specs. such as number of horses(!), telephones, etc ....... the first official US Military use of airplanes.......pre-WWI manuals such as this are difficult to find..... early style cloth weave hardbound, 6" by 8" in very good condition, with 179 pages and dated 1915............$55

3-7-A-M-1.........SIGNAL CORPS TRAINING MANUAL, PART 1 AVIATION SECTION OF SIGNAL CORPS 1917.......6" by 9" softcover manual contains 70 pages divided into 13 Chapters including 'Assembling, Erecting and Aligning of Airplanes', Instruments, Compasses, Care of Airplane Hangars, Care of Airplanes,Internal Combustion Engines, Repair of Airplanes and organization of Workshops'........some diagrams in book too, along with and Appendix of Aeronautical Nomenclature with terms I have never heard of before.........who knows what a 'Vol-Pique' is? ..this manual was apparently one in series for US Army Signal Corps, this one being the entire Aviation Section of the series......90 year old original in excellent condition......$75

7-36-A-M-1......... LORRAINE SEA IV PHOTO...........SOLD

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8-36-A-M-1.........'MYSTERY WWI FRENCH FIGHTER' PHOTO.....SOLD

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