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Pilot Officer Prune's Picture Parade

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by Hooper, Bill

Pilot Officer Prune's Picture Parade
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Reference

M0260

Publisher

London, HMSO

Year

1991

ISBN

0117726370

Condition

VG/-- (?)


The total with shipping for this book within the UK would be £7.52.


1st edition paperback, 56 pages,  8.5" x 11"  A very nice copy, clean and unmarked, with just a little light  wear to card covers and slight curl to top corner.  Fully illustrated in colour and b&w.

In the 1940's everybody knew what a prune was - he was a dimwit. And perhaps the most well known one of the day was Pilot Officer Prune, the popular cartoon figure used in the RAF training manual , TEE EMM.   Against the backdrop of the Battle of Britain, Percy Prune was instrumental in teaching pilots how not to do it - and cartoonist Bill Hooper gave them a much needed smile along with their instruction. Fifty years later, Bill's Picture Parade looks back on Prune's creation and his development as a persona not only within the RAF, but throughout the Allied Air Forces. Lively anecdotes, great cartoons, and fine color plates provide nostalgia, humour and military interest.






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