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NOTE:
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NOT USING THE NAME OF THE INDIVIDUAL AIRMAN/PHOTOGRAPHER WHO OWNED THEM.
WWII
AIR CORE
MILITARY
WATCH BOX
WITH
READY TO WEAR
RESTORED
WARRANTED
REMOVABLE
VINTAGE
1940-1943
WWII
ELGIN
MILITARY WATCH
WITH
SUB-SECONDS
REGISTER
AND
ELGIN
17 JEWEL
4 ADJ
555
MOVEMENT
AND
ORIGINAL 1940'S
U.S. ISSUED
WATCH STRAP
AND
READY TO WEAR
RESTORED
WARRANTED
REMOVABLE
VINTAGE
WWII
ELGIN
SIGNED
TYPE A-8
JITTERBUG
WWII ELGIN TYPE A-8
10 SECONDS NAVIGATION TIMER
WITH LEATHER FOB
&
MILITARY BUTTON
AND
WWII
Cloth Flight Helmet
AND
Aviator Goggles
WITH
WWII DISNEY DESIGNED
BOMBER FLIGHT PATCH
4 1943
WWII KELLOGG PIN BACK
BOMBER SQUADRON BUTTONS
AIR CORE PIN
LIEUTENANTS BAR
WWII DOG TAG
WWII HAT INSIGNIA
WWII
Asiatic Pacific
Campaign Ribbon
AND
NOTICE THE HELMET AND GOGGLES
ON THE PHOTOGRAPHER
"TARAWA"
"DAD TOOK THESE ON TARAWA"
AND
12
FREE
6 X 4
PERSONAL
TARAWA PHOTOS
AND
A FREE PROFESSIONAL
ONLINE APPRAISAL
WITH
A HISTORY OF THESE ITEMS
AS TOLD HEREIN
FOR
INSURANCE & HISTORIC
PURPOSES
Your Appraisal Shall Also Contain All The Information &
History
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YOU ALSO RECEIVE
FREE
A ONE YEAR GSW LIMITED WARRANTY
FOR WATCH & TIMER
35.00 US SHIPPING DOUBLE BOXED
INSURED WITH SIGNATURE DELIVERY!
40.00 PUERTO RICO AND HAWAII
45.00 INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING
WITH SIGNATURE AND INSURANCE
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ELGIN WWII
SUB-REGISTER
WATCH
THE DIAL
WHITE ORIGINAL FINISH DIAL
BLACK OUTLINED 1-12 LUME NUMERALS
BLACK SECONDS CHAPTER RING
BLACK HASHED SECONDS SUB-REGISTER
FINISH IS ORIGINAL
LUME STILL HAS
GLOW
CASE HAS
SCREW DOWN
TOP BEZEL
AND
SCREW DOWN
CASE BACK
BEZEL
CASE IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION
YOU CAN SEE THE
LOCK FOR CASE WRENCH
LARGE MILITARY CROWN
HERE YOU CAN SEE THE
CASE BACK
AND
BEZEL
SCREW RINGS
ORIGINAL WATCH STRAP
STAR WATCH CASE
COMPANY
3726594
SERVICED
OVERHAULED
ELGIN
1940-43
17 JEWEL
555
4 ADJUSTMENT
Features
manual wind
sub second
Data
8/0 size, Do= 23.7mm,
Dm= 23.25mm
H= 3.9mm
17 jewels
f = 18000 A/h
power reserve 38h
ELGIN A-8 NAVIGATION TIMER
NICK NAMED
"THE JITTERBUG"
CASE
DIAL AND MOVEMENT
IN EXCELLENT
WORKING CONDITION
THIS
ELGIN
10 SECOND
NAVIGATIONAL TIMER
IS AN
AWESOME TIME PIECE
AND
STUNNINGLY ENGINEERED
WITH LEATHER FOB
AND
MILITARY BUTTON
ELGIN "JITTERBUG"
10 SECOND
NAVIGATION TIMER
THIS 10 SECOND NAVIGATION TIMER
IS THE REAL DEAL
WITH 10 SECOND TIMER MARKERS
AND
5 MINUTE REGISTER
THE TIMER REVOLVES
6 TIMES FOR EACH MINUTE
ALL ORIGINAL
INCLUDING CRYTSAL
SIGNED CASE BACK
TYPE A-8
SPEC NO. 94-27749
SER NO. AF43-3322
MFRS PART NO. 1778
ORD NO. W5351C-34898
ELGIN
Grade 582 1/30-second timer used
by the US Army-Airforce and known as Watch. Navigation (Ground Speed) Type A-8.
One of its most important uses of the A-8
was for navigation. Air speed indicators on WWII aircraft were controlled by air
being forced into the air speed indicator as you flew your plane. The problem was that as
you gained altitude less and less air entered the device and there was always a wind
blowing and your speed relative to the ground is going to be either lower or higher
depending on whether you are flying into the wind or with the wind.
To make corrections and get your actual speed relative to the ground you needed to
do some arithmetic. You had to figure your actual ground-speed and compare it to the
airspeed indicator and then adjust your navigation calculations accordingly. The pilot or
navigator would pick out, say, a pair of known parallel roads or other landmarks about 5
to 10 miles apart early in your flight and the measure the distance between them using the
scale on a map, they would then click this 10 second timer on and then off as they
flew from one to the other. Some basic [for those that were trained] calculations and
division and they had their actual ground speed.
DOUBLE CASE COVER
A MUST TO ADD TO ANY
WWII
ARMY-AIR FORCE
MILITARY COLLECTION
CASED AND TIMED
BY ELGIN NATIONAL WATCH CO
WATCH
STAR CASE
COMPANY
1830036
(THIS IS ONE OF THE EARLIEST MODELS)
TITLED
"THE JITTERBUG"
DUE TO THE SMALL BALANCE THAT
ROTATES BACK AND FORTH
SO FAST IT SOUNDS LIKE A JITTERBUG
YOU
CAN SEE HOW SMALL IT IS
41521590
ELGIN NATIONAL WATCH CO
U.S.A.
15 JEWELS
WWII US
Cloth Flight Helmet
FINE TO
MINT OVERALL CONDITION
THIS WONDERFUL FLIGHT
HELMET IS IN
EXCELLENT CONDITION AND INCLUDES
PERFECT EAR PADS AND LEATHER SNAP
STRAPS AND PADDED CHIN STRAP
OVER ALL ABSOLUTELY
FINE TO MINT
CONDITION
LEATHER STAYS &
SNAPS
ARE IN
FINE CONDITION
OUTER COMMUNICATION
DEVICE HOLDERS
ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION
HEAPHONE EAR
MATERIAL
AND
CHIN WRAP
ARE IN MINT CONDITION
AWESOME
THE BOX WAS CUT TO ALLOW
THE EAR COVERS TO FIT.
US WWII
FLIGHT GOGGLES
LENSES
ARE IN
EXCELLENT CONDITION
METAL AND CLOTH
EXCELLENT CONDITION
CONDITION IS EXCELLENT
STRETCH STRAPS
ARE IN
FAIR TO GOOD
CONDITION
OVERALL EXCELLENT CONDITION
WWII DISNEY DESIGNED HAND PAINTED ON
CANVASS BOMBER FLIGHT PATCH
When Walt Disney was a young American ambulance driver in
France during World War I, he was exposed to a new form art that would be titled
"nose art". Nose Art was comic character painting on the cowls of military
trucks and the sides of military airplanes. Nose Art had an immense morale boosting effect
among the troops.
Disney returned to the United States in 1918 and became the
premier cartoonist of the era.
In 1939, the a U.S. Naval unit made a request of Disney,
they asked if he would draw up a mascot to paint on one of their new ships. Disney
produced a "Bumble Bee in a Sailor's Hat, wearing Boxing Gloves". The Naval unit
involved was so pleased with the design they adopted it the "Bumble Bee in a Sailor's
Hat, wearing Boxing Gloves" as their unit insignia and began painting it on their
jackets and other vehicles.
It was not long before the entire armed forces began
requesting Disney creations for their mascot
With the help of six of his top artists, Disney attempted to
fill the growing demand for unit mascots. The first two mascots produced by Disney in WWII
went to the "Eagle Squadron" of the Royal Air Force, a unit of American
volunteers flying for the British prior to American involvement in the war, and to the
famed "Flying Tigers", another volunteer force operating out of China.
By the time of US involvement in WWII, while Disney and his
staff were creating new designs, Warner Bros. joined in..
While Donald Duck was the most popular amongst Disney
characters, Warner Brothers called up both Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny.
Besides the use of then known popular cartoon
characters, every creature that could come to mind was utilized including nearly 150 new
dog and cat creations. Their creations swam, crawled, slithered, flew, and were featured
just about in every conceivable fashion.
NOTE:
A) Mickey Mouse was a consensus objector because Disney did not want to establish Mickey
with war
B) The personal insignia of German Luftwaffe ace Adolf Galland was Mickey Mouse
With both Disney and Warner Brothers at the helm, nearly
every unit in the armed forces was sporting either a cartoon mascot or skulls, grim
reapers, devils and other sinister mascots on jackets, military equipment, uniforms,
tanks, planes, boats, jeeps, and even dinner plates & stationary were adorned
with proud unit mascots.
By 1945 the Disney group & Warner Bros. had created over
1,800 Mascot Logos
Though some "field made" variants were created,
most authentic squadron patches were embroidered on "Chenille", hand painted or
decal on leather or hand painted/silk-screened on canvas.
8 WWII KELLOG SQUADRON PIN-BACK
BUTTONS
In 1943, the Kellogg's Cereal company placed 36 small
pin-back buttons each featuring a WWII squadron insignia in boxes of their Pep Cereal.
Introduced in 1923. Pep was a Kellogg Company brand of
whole-wheat breakfast and long-running rival to Wheaties.
By the 1930's, Pep was one of the first
"fortified" cereals with vitamins. Extensive advertising, from print
advertisements to sponsorship of Mutual Radio's Superman radio series helped keep the
brand in the public's consciousness.
BADGE FOR CAP
LIEUTENANTS BAR
AIRCORE WINGS
US MILITARY BUTTON
WWIII
Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal
Awarded to any member of the United States military who
served in the Pacific Theater from 1941 to 1945. There were twenty one official campaigns
of the Pacific Theater, denoted on with a service star. The arrowhead device is authorized
for those campaigns involving amphibious assaults. Credible campaigns for the Pacific
Theater are as follows: Philippine Islands 7 Dec 41 - 10 May 42; Burma, 1942 7 Dec 41 - 26
May 42; Central Pacific 7 Dec 41 - 6 Dec 43; East Indies 1 Jan 42 - 22 Jul 42; India-Burma
2 Apr 42 - 28 Jan 45; Air Offensive, Japan 17 Apr 42 - 2 Sep 45; Aleutian Islands 3 Jun 42
- 24 Aug 43; China Defensive 4 Jul 42 - 4 May 45; Papua 23 Jul 42 - 23 Jan 43; Guadalcanal
7 Aug 42 - 21 Feb 43; New Guinea 24 Jan 43 - 31 Dec 44; Northern Solomons 22 Feb 43 - 21
Nov 44; Eastern Mandates 7 Dec 43 - 14 Jun 44; Bismarck Archipelago 15 Dec 43 - 27 Nov 44;
Western Pacific 17 Apr 44 - 2 Sep 45; Leyte 17 Oct 44 - 1 Jul 45; Luzon 15 Dec 44 - 4 Jul
45; Central Burma 29 Jan 45 - 15 Jul 45; Southern Philippines 27 Feb 45 - 4 Jul 45;
Ryukyus 26 Mar 45 - 2 Jul 45; China Offensive 5 May 45 - 2 Sep 45. Additionally, the
following Pacific Theater “blanket” campaigns qualify - but without service
stars: Antisubmarine 7 Dec 41 - 2 Sep 45; Ground Combat: 7 Dec 41 - 2 Sep 45; Air Combat:
7 Dec 41 - 2 Sep 45.
THANKS TO ONE OF OUR PATRONS
WHO WE AGREED NOT TO REVEAL
WHOSE FATHER SERVED IN WWII
AS A NAVY AIRMAN &
COMBAT PHOTOGRAPHER
WE ARE FREELY OFFERING THE FOLLOWING HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHIC
IMAGES AS A FREE ADDITION TO THIS HISTORICAL COLLECTION.
WE ARE NOT RASING THE PRICE OF OUR OFFER.
THESE ARE NOT PRINTER COPIES BUT ACTUAL
PHOTOS THAT
WERE DEVELOPED FROM ORIGINAL FILM ON SPECIAL FUJI
ARCHIVE PHOTOGRAPHY PAPER.
[IRONIC FOR JAPANESE RELATED PRINTS!]
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HISTORICAL WW II U.S. AVIATION MILITARYWATCHBOX
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