ELSA Aircraft Recognition Card (1943) By Australia. Army. Royal Australian Engineers
 
Sandstone coloured stiff cover with black text opens up to allow the stapled pages with the aircraft silhouettes and other identifying information to provide three doudle sheets.

The printed text is [''ELSA'' / AIRCRAFT RECOGNITION / CARD] and then [Instructions for Use: / 1. Learn to note the main features of / aircraft in sequence from front to rear. / Note also any peculiarities such as / obvious gun turret, fuselage projecting / behind the tail, etc. / 2. It is not necessary to be able to see all / the features in order to deduce the type / of aircraft. / 3. Beginning, if possible, at the front of / the aircraft, apply the features noted to the relevent section of the card. The / group of possibles will lessen as each / feature is applied. The Silhoutte amd / remarks will finalise the answer. / Australia, May, 1943. / CROWN COPYRIGHT RESERVED.].
 
The back cover has Monoplanes and Biplanes Abbreviations with information by Columns 1 to 7. The bottom of the back cover has [M.L.S. / 080] and [Redrawn and reproduced by I Aust. Mob. Litho. Sec (A.I.F.) A Svy].
 
Soft Cover
In Fair to Good Condition