Flying Fortress The Story of the Boeing Bomber -- WITH Memorial Service Program for Mrs. Clairmont Egtvedt
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 4to. Pp. 168. Illustrated throughout with black & white gravure photographs. Endpaper maps. Bound in red cloth printed with gray vertical stabilizer outline and white lettering. Spine faded at head of spine, corresponding with dust jacket chip. Color photo-illustrated dust jacket with edge-wear and chips, notably at head of spine extending to rear panel, roughly the size of a 50-cent piece. With the 2002 bifolium memorial program celebrating the life "and Homecoming" of Evelyn Egtvedt laid in. Near Fine / Good+. Item #6780 Upon graduating from the University of Washington he was hired by William E. Boeing; his wife, Evelyn Smith Egtvedt, was given the unofficial job of buying Christmas gifts for the children of all Boeing employees, such was the size of the company. She passed away in 2002, but not before being exposed as a victim of an unscrupulous preacher who had gained control of her finances, an unseemly imbroglio that played out on the front pages of Seattle newspapers. Dust jacket now preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.
The story of the Boeing B-17, the war machine that, through high-altitude carpet bombing, hastened the end of WWII in the European Theater. Nearly 7.000 B-17s were manufactured in short order at Boeing's Plant II, next to Seattle's Duwamish River. This book served as a propaganda piece, published at the start of that massive effort. Clairmont "Claire" Egtvedt, Boeing president, was considered the Father of the Flying Fortress. At the end of the war his engineers presented him with a mahogany coffee table inlaid with gauges from a B-17 and fitted with a brass plaque expressing gratitude to their boss.
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