Air-Forceful Cartoons
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Title
Air-Forceful Cartoons
A memento of training days during the war for world liberty
Description
Book of cartoons drawn and published by E B Scholes showing humorous aspects of technical trade training.
Page 1 - front cover, autographed with many individual signatures.
Page 2 - foreword by Group Captain G T H Pack.
Page 3 - 'Up Kit bag hill', two tired airmen with heavy backpacks struggling up a hill.
Page 4 - 'Basic' eight trainees failing to master basic tools in a workshop.,
Page 5 - 'I don't get it!' trainee on night armed guard trying to revise from book at same time.
Page 6 - 'A clearance fit!' a pay parade with trainees holding large amounts of money.
Page 7 - 'A running fit' trainees attempting to force two mechanical parts together at the run.
Page 8 - 'A misfit' an aircraft being serviced or repaired with wrong pieces of equipment.
Page 9 - 'Engines' trainees being taught about the lubrication of radial engines.
Page 10 - 'Static balance' trainees learning about balance in context of propellor fitting and repair.
Page 11 - 'Ere corporal' trainees at classroom lecture about spark plugs.
Page 12 - 'Rigging' trainees being taught about repair and maintenance of airframes.
Page 13 - 'The theory of flight' a mouse scares a group of WAAFs.
Page 14 - 'Torque reaction' an airman spinning a propellor to start engine.
Page 15 - 'Installation' trainees trying and failing to carry out work on an aircraft.
Page 16 - 'running tuning and testing' trainees attempting to work on running aircraft engines.
Page 17 - 'revision' instructor lecturing to group of trainees who have fallen asleep.
Page 18 - 'after the board was over' trainees queue for trade test board, thinking about potato peeling in kitchen afterwards.
Page 19 - 'departure' airmen departing training unit.
Page 20 - back cover with letter V in text and morse code and name of printer (Hood and Co Ltd, Middlesbrough).
Page 1 - front cover, autographed with many individual signatures.
Page 2 - foreword by Group Captain G T H Pack.
Page 3 - 'Up Kit bag hill', two tired airmen with heavy backpacks struggling up a hill.
Page 4 - 'Basic' eight trainees failing to master basic tools in a workshop.,
Page 5 - 'I don't get it!' trainee on night armed guard trying to revise from book at same time.
Page 6 - 'A clearance fit!' a pay parade with trainees holding large amounts of money.
Page 7 - 'A running fit' trainees attempting to force two mechanical parts together at the run.
Page 8 - 'A misfit' an aircraft being serviced or repaired with wrong pieces of equipment.
Page 9 - 'Engines' trainees being taught about the lubrication of radial engines.
Page 10 - 'Static balance' trainees learning about balance in context of propellor fitting and repair.
Page 11 - 'Ere corporal' trainees at classroom lecture about spark plugs.
Page 12 - 'Rigging' trainees being taught about repair and maintenance of airframes.
Page 13 - 'The theory of flight' a mouse scares a group of WAAFs.
Page 14 - 'Torque reaction' an airman spinning a propellor to start engine.
Page 15 - 'Installation' trainees trying and failing to carry out work on an aircraft.
Page 16 - 'running tuning and testing' trainees attempting to work on running aircraft engines.
Page 17 - 'revision' instructor lecturing to group of trainees who have fallen asleep.
Page 18 - 'after the board was over' trainees queue for trade test board, thinking about potato peeling in kitchen afterwards.
Page 19 - 'departure' airmen departing training unit.
Page 20 - back cover with letter V in text and morse code and name of printer (Hood and Co Ltd, Middlesbrough).
Creator
Date
1941
Temporal Coverage
Language
Format
Twenty page book of cartoons
Publisher
Rights
This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.
Identifier
MHarringtonM[Ser#-DoB]-211218-01
Collection
Citation
E B Scholes, “Air-Forceful Cartoons,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed February 13, 2026, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/58993.
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