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(JUDAICA--WORLD WARS.) Memorial Album: Dedicated to the Boys of the 20th Air Force. 30 plates. 134, [1] pages. 4to, original gilt padded cloth, minimal wear; inscribed on front free endpaper "Those we love will always live in our heart, Sadie Finkelstein." [Los Angeles, CA: Mr. and Mrs. N. Finkelstein, 1951]
Compiled by the parents of downed World War Two airman Joseph Harold Finkelstein, it includes portraits and biographies of him and 23 other lost Jewish airmen of the Twentieth Air Force. The unit launched raids on Japan from bases in China, India and the Mariana Islands; most famously, they delivered atomic bombs to Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the close of the war. Two poems in Yiddish by Sadie Finkelstein are included. The closing chapter by I. Kaufman is excerpted from "American Jews in World War II" and is titled "They Delivered the Bomb."
With--two other copies of the same, found and offered as a group: one with minor wear to binding and inscribed to friends by Sadie Finkelstein; the other with minimal wear and uninscribed.
