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This issue of "SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED Magazine, August 1948" had TWO EXTRAORDINARY, WORLD WAR II FEATURES. FIRST is a 3-page PHOTO-TOUR aboard HITLER's SUPER-YACHT , showing the 476-feet-long ship that took 400 Nazi sailor s to operate. PHOTOS show the YACHT , its RADIO ROOM with ENIGMA Coding Machines, BRIDGE , STEAM ENGINES , SHIP's BELL , SHIP's LOG BOOK, and MINIATURE CAR to drive around the DECK + TEXT . SECOND is a TWO-PAGE spread showing a FRONTAL PHOTO of the Northrop Aircraft YB-79 , a SECRET , MINIATURE, TWO-JET ENGINE FLYING WING PLANE with heavily armored wings ... designed to slice through enemy planes and cut off their tails. CONDITION : TIGHT, SUPPLE , with 77-year-old edge wear. Spine has bug-nibbles at several places.