American Junior G-Man Club World War II Airplane pictures – Ted Grohs

Description

Offered for sale is a set of 8 ½ x 11 inch pictures of 12 World War II airplanes which were drawn by illustrator Ted Grohs
These pictures were distributed to promote “Captain” Jack’s American Junior G-Man Club, which was a radio program broadcast on several California radio stations, and its sponsors.
Sponsors included May Co., Korricks’, Fuller Paint, Euclid Candy Co., and probably other companies.
Many of these have a American Junior G-Man Club badge in the lower left hand corner of the picture and have “Keep ‘em flying” on every American battlefront.” On the right bottom corner, below the picture.
Other examples of these pictures have a Fuller Paint logo on the lower left corner. These have the following under the picture on the right side: “Fuller Aircraft Paints are helping to “Keep ‘em flying on every American battlefront.
Many of these have information printed on the back concerning how copies of the pictures can be obtained by sending a letter to “Captain” Jack at one of the radio stations that broadcast his program and enclosing a “EUCLID candy wrapper”.
Pictures of the following airplanes are included in this group:
A – 1
Curtis P-40E “Warhawk’ Army Fighter
A – 2
North American “Billy Mitchell” B-25 Bomber
A – 3
Lockheed “Lightning” Army P-38G
A – 4
Curtiss Helldiver (SB2C.1) U. S. Navy Dive Bomber
A – 5
Bell Airacobra (P-39) u. s. Army Fighter
A – 6
Martin Martian U. S. Army B-26 Medium Bomber
A – 7
Vought Sikorsky Corsair (F4U.1) U. S. Navy Shipboard Fighter
A – 8
Boeing B 17 Flying Fortress
A – 9
Grumman F4F.4 “Wildcat” U. S. Navy Fighter
A – 10
Douglas C-54 (DC-4)
A – 11
Republic P-47, “Thunderbolt”
A – 12
Consolidated Model 31. Navy P 4Y 1
Only the basic American Junior G-Man Club information is printed on the back of this group of pictures. The information concerning sponsors and obtaining additional pictures is not included.
The American Junior G-Man Club badge appears in the lower left corner of these pictures. These pictures are in very good condition.
These are printed on a thinner paper than some of these pictures.