We were recently cleaning out a back closet of our HQ and I found the following text:
"Preflight"
Study Manual
For Civil Air Patrol Cadets
It has a forward by Gen. HAP Arnold.
Anyone know anything about when this was used?
FWIW there is a drawing of a piper cub bombing a sub in there, and there is discussion of the CAP League. There is also a B-29 depicted.
We are guessing it dates from 1944-1946
Some interesting topics covered:
'facts of army life'
'keep mum chum' (opsec 1940's style)
Chapter on Articles of war
A list of the 11 general orders (which the text suggests you memorize before entering military service)
1st aid, including how to apply a tourniquet and inject morphine
Parachute safety...a primer on how to safely eject from an a/c.
I think the CAP League was active in the 1945-6 framework (at least that is when I saw references to them, I believe).
I started a thread about the CAP League a few months ago because I found an application for it in the box of historical stuff I found.
http://captalk.net/index.php?topic=4523.0
The league was launched (in New Hampshire) on 30 MARCH 1945 .
Thanks for the info. When I get home I will post the CAP league info. It explains what it actually was supposed to do.
The book is very cool. It looks like the 1st CP Leadership/AE manual all rolled into a single text.