FM 4-188 : Coast Artillery Field Manual : Service of the Balloon and Balloon Equipment, Very Low Altitude
[ no place noted but normally Washington D.C. ]: [ Headquarters Army Ground Force ] December 8, 1942. First Edition. [2], ii, 63, [1-blank] pages. 8 x 11 3/4 inches. Blue cloth spine over blue card covers (soiling). Mimeographed typescript. Previous owner stamp ("Property of Nicholas A. Parisi") on front flyleaf. Irregular printing quality, diagonal smudge across entire title page. Paper browned throughout. Illustrated. Good. Boards. [28132]
A restricted version of what would become FM 4-188 (published eventually in Feb 1944). No copies of this restricted edition in OCLC, and only two copies of the eventuallly published version. Rare. Balloon related material from the war is much harder to find than other publications.
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