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Rare and Formerly “Restricted” Info Packet on German Aircraft, 1944

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“Performances of German Aircraft” (16 February 1944) is one of several dozen pieces that were loose-leaf bound by a naval student of the Naval Air Combat Information School at Quonset Point, Rhode Island.  The entire notebook is interesting as a whole from a pedagogical point of view, and teh components are usually very engaging (and even noteworthy) on their own.  The nine pages that comprise this Luftwaffe section of the classwork (identified as “RESTRICTED” in the offset typed original) are an outline for the classwork and no doubt augmented during lectures–but as they stand it is s statement of the base knowledge for what was being taught to intelligence officers.  

This section is 9pp, complete, and I reproduce it below (each page is greatly expandable and easy to read):

German planes _1_

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