International Order Of Characters Meeting Yearbook & Program Aviation History 

This is an almost complete collection of  Meeting Pamphlets, Address Yearbook & Program
from 1962 to 2004 of the Aviation "International Order Of Characters" . 
All in Verygood Condition



The International Order of Characters is an aviation-oriented educational foundation which traces it’s roots to the grim early days of World War Two in the South Pacific.
It was there that a young USAAF flight surgeon, Captain James E. Crane, came up with the idea of organizing a group of battle- weary American and Allied pilots under his care into a fraternal order to be called the International Order of Characters. Each of the members, upon induction, received a private nickname known only to the other members of the Order. By 1943, call-signs such as “The Sky”, “Spanish John”, “Little Isadore”, “Harry The Horse”, “Society Max” were being heard in the sky over Guadalcanal and the neighboring islands. The “IOC”, which competed with another legendary organization, the “Guadalcanal Rod and Gun Club”, grew to nearly one thousand members before the war moved on towards Japan, and Major Crane was reassigned to military hospitals in the United States.

Notable members