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On aerial defense, bombs, and gas, 1936-1940.

Five pamphlets published 1936-1940, stapled together in a manila folder. Provenance: Library of Congress.  Each 8.25” x 5.75”, original wrappers.  Of the five, only one is located at all in WorldCat (with one copy only). The pamphlets seem to rank last-to-first in terms of interest here, to me, although even the first pamphlet no doubt contains some difficult-to-find detail on civil defense uniforms. In GOOD condition, at least.  $200

Prescriptions concernant les vetements de travail pour les troupes des organisms locaux de defense aerienne passive.  Department militaire federal, Service de la defense aerienne passive, Berne, 1936. 4pp.  NO copies located in WorldCat.

Programme d’instruction 1938 pour les organisms de defense aerienne industrielle. (Defense aerienne Industrielle, D.A.I.) 1938. 6pp.  NO copies located in WorldCat.

Programme d’instruction 1939 pour les organisms locaux de D.A.P. 1939. 8pp (2 copies). NO copies located in WorldCat.

Defense aerienne, Dernieres experiences de guerre. Confederation Suisse. (April, 1940.) (“A conserber soigneusement!”). This pamphlet has sections on incendiaries, dangers of explosions, gas attacks, and “blessures de la peau par des toxiques persistants” (“skin wounds by persistent toxins”).  WorldCat locates 1 copy (Basel).

“Instructions a la population civile concernant les sabotages et les parachutists”, 23 May 1940. 2pp.   NO copies located in WorldCat.  (This one seems particularly interesting…)

 

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