Moresby to Manila Via 54th Troop Carrier- US Army Air Forces in SW Pacific 1945

  
Moresby to Manila Via Troop Carrier, True Story of the 54th Troop Carrier Wing, The Third Tactical Arm of the U. Army Air Forces in the Southwest Pacific. Hardcover without dust jacket as issued? 476 b & w photos all with captions (many candid shots by regular soldiers, many action photos & some are aerial), 16 copies of documents, 4 graphs, 4 pp. Of decorations and awards, a few scattered poems, 15 cartoons, maps (4 textual, 1 fold-out, 2 end-paper of the western Pacific theater). Includes list of the 215 soldiers who died on the trip (by rank and group), double-column text. On two blank pages at the end there are 3 handwritten names and addresses of U. Veterans who had come to Sydney on the publication of this book and previous owners name to the front end-paper. A scare copy in the hardcover first edition.

No highlighting a very good copy.