This auction is for a high-quality modern reprint of the vintage WWII flight manual entitled "Bombers' Information File", about 1945, 251p.

Buyer to pay actual shipping costs. Shipping is free via USPS Media Mail in the CONUS. For foreign, it will be roughly $13 for USPS International First Class. Please check the postage calculator to be sure.

These are not your grandmother's scans. Every page has been hand-corrected to remove as many blemishes as possible. Color correction with a known color standard sheet was used to get the colors as close to the original as possible. Special care was taken with the half-tone images to make sure all the depth and range of the originals is preserved. Manuals are printed in full-color on 24 lb paper and comb-bound with clear plastic front cover and black plastic back sheet.


The Bombers' Information file was issued to every candidate in the wartime Army Air Forces flight training program. Since the candidates came from all walks of life, the manual was designed in comic-book form with many illustrations and relatively straightforward text. That notwithstanding, there is a great deal of information here. Sections include Fundamentals (bombing tables, bombing analysis) Computers (E-6B, G-1, time-of-run computations), instrument calibration and navigation (Magnetic compass, gyro-stabilized flux gate compass, astro-compass, dead reckoning, radio navigation), autopilot (formation stick, directional panel turns), M-series bombsight (Norden), armament (bombs, AN-M30A1 100-lb through AN-M56A1 4000-lb), combat bombing (flak analysis, formation, bombing through overcase)

NOTE THAT THIS REPRINT IS NOT AN EXACT REPLICA OF ORIGINAL BINDING. I have printed a high-quality color scan of the front and back cover on 80-lb card stock, covered by clear acetate sheets.. It looks just like the original. it is a flat, printed image of the original leather. Again, it is NOT AN EXACT REPLICATION OF THE 3-POST BOUND MANUAL. It is a reprint of the CONTENT of the manual, but not in the exact FORM of the original manual. The book is bound using comb binding.

Please look at my other auctions, especially the Pilots' Information File, the Navigators' Information File, the Gunners' Information File, and the Radio Operators' Information File.