Description: THIS IS A BRAND NEW BOOK SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR "WINGS OVER CAPE COD - THE CHATHAM NAVAL AIR STATION 1917-1922" BY the late JOSEPH D. BUCKLEY OF HINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS SEE VIEWS BELOW FIRST EDITION PUBLISHED 2000 BY LOWER CAPE PUBLISHING AN EXTENSIVE NARRATIVE and HISTORY OF THE CHATHAM NAVAL AIR STATION ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY DURING WORLD WAR ONE and SHORTLY THEREAFTER (1917 - 1922) HARD COVER WITH DUSTJACKET IN MYLAR PROTECTIVE COVER SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, JOSEPH D. BUCKLEY, WHOSE FATHER WAS STATIONED AT CHATHAM FROM 1918 to 1919 SIZE 8 3/4" 190 PAGES BLUE CLOTH BOARDS OVER 125 PICTURES, MANY NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED CONDITION FINE IN A FINE DUSTJACKET in MYLAR CONTAINS: Pictures feature Curtiss R-9 Seaplanes, Curtiss HS-Flying Boat, B-Class and C-Class Blimps, Caquot Kite Balloons, Wrecks, various building at the Air Station, and many locations that the planes visited The text is entertaining as well as highly informative Included are stories... ...of the only German submarine activity witnessed from American soil... ...of seaplanes participating in local liberty loan drives... ...AND a tale of a decoy vessel the Navy placed in the fishing grounds as a U-Boat trap Peacetime accounts cover... ...the emergency repair of the NC-4's engines... ...the performing of an aerial tribute above the Yankee Division's final parade in Boston... ...the assistance given downed pilots by Coast Guard manned Life Savings Stations... ...AND the extensive recruiting flights up the Connecticut, Merrimack and Penobscot Rivers AND MUCH MORE... THE BOOK COVERS FAR MORE THAN JUST CAPE COD AND ITS ADJACENT WATERS IT IS THE STORY OF NAVAL AVIATION IN NEW ENGLAND AT THE TIME OF WORLD WAR I BID NOW! BUYER PREPAYS PLUS SHIPPINGAUCTIONS MUST BE PAID WITHIN 7 DAYS OF AUCTION END FOREIGN SHIPPING ARRANGED MASSACHUSETTS CUSTOMERS ADD 6.25% SALES TAX WE'LL SHIP ANYWHERE AS LONG AS YOU PAY THE SHIPPING!
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Year Printed: 2000
Modified Item: No
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Chatham Naval Air Station
Binding: Hardcover w/Jacket
Region: Cape Cod
Origin: American
Author: Joseph D. Buckley
Subject: WW I Military Aviation Navy
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Publisher: Lower Cape Publishing
Place of Publication: United States
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Illustrated
