Description
Full color 7 3/4″ x 11″ ad that highlights another of the many ways that the North American Aviation company is contributing to the effort to beat the Axis forces. The ad mentions two of the more widely-known planes produced by North American that were meeting with huge success in the actual battles, the P-51 Mustang and the B-25 Mitchell, but this ad talks about the AT-6 Texan, the most widely used combat trainer in the war. The ad claims that the “Pilots of 24 Nations train in “Texans”“ and the left and right side of the ad are lined with the wing insignias of these countries. The ad claims that North American has built over 10,000 of these trainers, believed to be a record, and claims that they have designed in the same instrumentation for all three of their planes so, someone trained in the Texan will comfortably switch to either of the other two planes and be immediately successful. The ad has a drawing of a squadron of five of these planes “peeling off” as they train for duty. As all of their ads do, this one reminds us that “North American Sets the Pace!”.
Source: September 1943 Good Housekeeping.
