- credit
- Harry Mabs — Design
- credit
- Roy Parker — Art
- gameplay_feature
- Kick-Out Holes ×2
- gameplay_feature
- Passive Bumpers ×14
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- D. Gottlieb & Company
- ipdb_id
- 3191
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/3191/Backglass.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3191/Playfield.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3191/image-1.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3191/image-3.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3191/image-2.png"]
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- Gottlieb
- ipdb.notable_features
- Passive bumpers (14), Kick-out holes (2).
- ipdb.notes
- According to the Encyclopedia of Pinball Volume 2, this was a wartime production game made by Gottlieb using their remaining raw materials before their Government war contracts took effect, causing them to cease pinball production to convert to the war effort.
At the center of the backglass is a depiction of the Minuteman Defense Stamp, which was sold by Post Offices in denominations of ten cents to one dollar. These stamps were affixed to a book which, when full, was exchanged for a war bond of the same total value.
We previously showed a date for this game of October 1942. This game debuted the first week in February 1942 per Billboard Feb-7-1942 page 75.
The motto "Keep 'Em Flying" was used by the United States during WWII. We have seen references that it was used by the Army, the Army Air Corps, and the Civil Aeronautics Administration. Conflicting references cite who coined it and when. The earliest instance we have encountered was in the May 1939 issue of Flying Magazine on page 54 stating it had been recently adopted by the Army. It was also the name of a Hollywood movie in 1941.
- month
- 2
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- theme
- Aviation
- theme
- Combat
- theme
- Military
- theme
- Historical
- theme
- Wartime
- theme
- World War II
- theme
- Patriotic
- year
- 1942