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Posted by Len Provisor
on November 8, 2009, 11:26 am
Some pens in my collection specific to WWII
First, a breathtaking painting The Battle of London by frank Wooten
The pilots tried fountain pens in flight, not a good idea, the lead pencil was always used.
I met RAF Ace Air Marshall Johnnie Johnson (L) and Gen Don Lopez, American pilot in the RCAF American Eagle Squadron (chubby guy is me c1992) thye signed my books with my Parker 51.
I also met Gen Adolf Galland, German air ace who told Herman Goering, when asked what it would take to finish off the RAF…”Give me a squadron of Spitfires!”
He signed my book in pencil
British post-war fountain pens made from scrap aircraft aluminum and steel
My father was a flight instructor in the RCAF Royal Canadian Air Force, he instructed glider pilots….gliders were appropriately called flying coffins…always had bad landings.
This inexpensive RCAF fountain pen has the RCAF emblem on the cap.
A Sheaffer flat top engraved with the name of USAAF pilot.
continued………
some of my collection, a RAF Victory Bell made from downed German bombers.
Morrison with crossed UK and U.S. flags plus I have since found the matching pencil to this other Morrison made with the RAF rondel emblem
The actual style of Conway Stewart pen that was actually used by Winston Churchill…at least that is what the UK pen dealer told me…with a smile and a wink
Another famous war period Parker was the 1941 RAF Spitfire MK Vb GEO S. PARKER
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