Combat Air Patrol, Training Booklet, US Navy 1944 P-40

Combat Air Patrol, Training Booklet, US Navy 1944 P-40This is an original WWII era training booklet published by the US Navy's Aviation Training Division in 1944. Combat Air Patrol (CAP) was an operation orchestrated by a carrier based Fighter Director to position one or more groups of fighters in an aggressive defensive posture over an aircraft carrier. The 36 page booklet covers the strategy, terminology, operations, formations, and execution of CAP. It is number eight in the Fixed Gunnery and Combat

and F-94C Starfire jet fighters

This mid-size (5 by 7 inches)

According to the US Army Air Force Interchangeability Cross Reference Chart dated February 1945

Rate of Climb Indicators

Here is an Altimeter

but where variation control and azimuth monitoring of Air Position Indicator or radio compass are required

The knob at the top right provided dial illumination when turned

as opposed to those designs which were pneumatically-powered (i

giving it quite a heft

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The fluid is intact

It appears to have once been installed