ON OCTOBER 3rd 2014 WE VISITED THE GREAT TOWNWIDE YARD SALE HELD ANNUALLY AT WARRENSBURG, NEW YORK. IN ONE OF OUR FAVORITE VENDOR TENTS WE NOTICED A BOX WHICH APPEARED FULL OF ITEMS MARKED 1937 BOY SCOUT JAMBOREE. WE PURCHASED THE ENTIRE LOT WHICH WE OFFERED AS TEN SEPARATE sales.
AS WE WERE LEAVING THE VENDOR\'S TENT WE SAW A PROGRAM FOR THE 1939 NATIONAL AIR RACES, AND UNDER THE PROGRAM A LARGE PILE OF DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE TRAINING AND COMBAT MISSIONS OF A B-17 PILOT WHO FLEW 23 MISSIONS OVER GERMANY IN 1945. WE PURCHASED THAT LOT ALSO, AND WHEN WE RETURNED HOME WE DISCOVERED THAT THE B-17 PILOT WAS IN FACT THE BOY SCOUT FROM GLOVERSVILLE, NEW YORK, WHO ATTENDED THE 1937 JAMBOREE. WE WILL BE OFFERING THE B-17 STUFF IN ABOUT ELEVEN SEPARATE sales TO INCLUDE PILOT DOG TAG, PILOT LOG, TWO USAAF NAVIGATION MANUALS, PHOTO ALBUM CONTAINING ABOUT 240 EUROPEAN THEATER PHOTOS (B-17 BOMBERS FLYING AND CRASHED, NAZI ME-109 CRASHED, PICTURES OF THE B-17 PILOT IN AN ME-262 JET, BDA PHOTOS OF BERLIN, KEIL, FRANKFORT, B-17 CREW PHOTOS, AND MORE). DOING AN VENDOR SEARCH ON \"VERMONTER43\" SHOULD SHOW YOU ALL sales.
THE HISTORIAN IN ME WAS REMINDED OF TOM BROKAW\'S BOOK TITLE, \"THE GREATEST GENERATION,\" AS THIS YOUNG SCOUT WENT FROM SCOUT PATROL LEADER TO PILOT, BOY SCOUT TO B-17, IN SEVEN YEARS SIX MONTHS FINDING TIME TO GRADUATE HIGH SCHOOL AND ATTEND CORNELL UNIVERSITY FOR THREE YEARS IN THE INTERIM. ANYONE WISHING TO CAPTURE A SPECIAL PIECE OF 1930\'S - 1940\'S HISTORY IS INVITED TO offer ON THESE sales.
IN THIS sale WE OFFER AT THIS PHOTO ALBUM CONSISTING OF ABOUT 240 PHOTOS OF THE CAREER OF A B-17 PILOT FROM HIS BASIC PILOT TRAINING THROUGH 23 B-17 MISSIONS OVER GERMANY IN 1945 AND THEN INTO PEACETIME USAAF SERVICE IN EUROPE, 1946-1947.
PICTURE ONE SHOWS THE THE ALBUM PAGE ON WHICH AIR CADET SMITH HAS PICTURED HIS PT-22 AND BT-15 TRAINER PLANES AS WELL AS A FINE PHOTO OF HIMSELF.
PICTURE TWO SHOWS \"COMBAT CREW TRAINING\" WITH CREW NUMBER 9355 AND B-17 NUMBER 3019.
PICTURE THREE SHOWS 1LT SMITH AND HIS CREW AS THEY \"HIT ENGLAND ON FEBRUARY 19, 1945.\" PICTURED AT PAGE BOTTOM IS SMITH\'S B-17, \"GOING MY WAY?\"
PICTURE FOUR IS TITLED \"MISSION TO GERMANY (1945).\" SHOWN ARE B-17\'s TAKING OFF, FORMING UP, UNDER FIRE FROM A Me-210, SMITH AT THE CONTROLS OF HIS B-17,AND A B-17 CRASHED ON THE AIRFIELD AFTER THE MISSION.
PICTURE FIVE SHOWS 1LT SMITH IN HIS FLYING SUIT, FLAK SUIT, SEVEN B-17s FORMING UP OVER THE ENGLISH CHANNEL, AND A CRASHED B-17.
PICTURE SIX SHOWS B-17s \"LETTING DOWN OVER ENGLAND OR BELGIUM.\" THE BOTTOM PHOTO IS CAPTIONED \"WE DROP 42 100 LB BOMBS AND 83 INCENDIARY BOMBS ON FRANKFORT, GERMANY MARSHALLING YARDS ON MARCH 9, 1945.
PICTURE SEVEN SHOWS BOMBING OF GERMAN NAVAL TARGETS AT KIEL APRIL 3, 1945, AND NURNBURG BOMBING APRIL 4, 1945.
PICTURE EIGHT SHOWS AT TOP PRECISION BOMBING OF PIRNA BRIDGE ON THE ELBE APRIL 19, 1945, AND AT BOTTOM \"WE CELEBRATE OUR LAST MISSON - THE 23rd -ON APRIL 20, 1945, BY MAKING 3 BOMB RUNS ON THE BERLIN MARSHALLING YARDS FROM 30,000 FEET WITH 20 250 LB. \"EGGS\" ON BOARD.
PICTURE NINE SHOWS AT TOP A B-17 \"TUCKING IT IN\" ON ROUTE TO BERLIN ON MARCH 18, 1945, AND AT MID-PAGE CREW CHIEFS LUGGING A P-51, \"THE COLONEL\'S TOY.\"
PICTURE TEN, THE LAST PICTURE, SHOWS 1LT SMITH\'S B-17 \"CLASSY CHASSIS\" AND HIS \"WAR WEARY\" JEEP READYING FOR A POST V-E DAY TRIP. THREE SMALL PHOTOSOF A WRECKED Me-109 ARE AT PAGE BOTTOM.
THE ALBUM CONTAINS ABOUT 200 MORE PHOTOS MOSTLY OF 1LT SMITH\'s FLYING BUDDIES AT WORK AND PLAY, AND VIEWS OF THE DIFFERNT CITIES AND TOWNS SMITH VISITED ON LEAVE AFTER V-E DAY.WINNING buyer MAY RETURN THE ITEM AT HIS EXPENSE WITHIN FOURTEEN DAYS OF RECEIPT FOR REFUND OF AMOUNT offer. SHOULD A buyer WIN MORE THAN ONE sale, PLEASE WAIT FOR MY INVOICE BEFORE PAYING AS I WILL COMBINE SHIPPING CHARGES. POSTAL INSURANCE IS MANDATORY ON MY sales. sales NOT PAID WITHIN FOUR DAYS (96 HOURS) WILL BE CANCELLED AND THE ITEM OFFERED TO THE UNDER buyer OR WITHDRAWN.