March Field Air Base Historical and Pictorial Review by United States Army Air Forces - 1941

Baton Rouge. Baton Rouge: Army and Navy Publishers. Very Good. 1941. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Bound in blue embossed cloth; rubbed and lightly worn at extremities. Contents are excellent. Printed on coated paper; binding is tight, pages are clean and unmarked. . Pictorial history of the March Field Air Base, named for Lieutenant Peyton C. March, Jr. It was home of the 4th Air Force, activated on January 16, 1941. This yearbook-like publication is filled with posed and unposed photos of the activities and personnel of March Field in 1941, just prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, which quickly brought March Field back into the business of training aircrews headed for duty in the Pacific. Scarce. . 4to 11" - 13" tall. 163 pages. K5 .