ORIGINAL: AW1Steve
ORIGINAL: USS America
I just took a trip to the local used book store. Picked up a great condition copy of Janes Fighting Aircraft of WWII for $6.00. [8D]
Just glanced inside the cover, but it is apparently a reprint of the '46/47 edition that used the latest known information at the time. Should be a blast to read and browse.
Ebay is a great source for Jane's . I've built up quite a collection over the years. But unfortuanately the best source is the UK and shipping makes it unaffordable. [X(]
Talking about Janes, I have a quite horrendous story to tell. Four years ago, the Swedish National Defence College moved a couple of kilometers within Stockholm to new facilities. I was a student at the college at that time. One evening, going home from school, I passed the college parking lot where they had set out some garbage containers to throw away unwanted literature, documents etc. I glanced into it, and found to my horror that the college library had culled an older, formerly archived AND complete collection of Janes Fighting Ships from 1912 to 1949 in pretty good condition (judging from the covers). Being culled, they had ripped off the covers and mutilated the pages ...
Oh the horror! [:(][:(][:(] WHY, OH WHY COULDN'T THE LIBRARIAN IDIOTS JUST *ASK* IF SOMEBODY WANTED THE BOOKS!?!? They did exactly that with most of the other literature about to be culled ... I've never wanted to hit a librarian more in my life than then.
Also, it would have been fun to have checked how much you could have got from an antiquarian. Not that I would've sold them if I had them.
I still get upset when I think about it. With that sad note, I'm off to bed [:(]. G'night gentlemen [>:][>:][>:]
