Well, I just can not tell the story behind these things. First my Dad’s 24 hour issue chronometer. He had left the USS Langley in ‘40 to become a pilot, with his brother, and flew just about every plane the Navy had in those years and later. The USS Langley was sunk in ‘42 with great loss of life in the Java Sea. He flew 12,000 hours, many in Hudson’s and PBY’s flying antisubmarine out of Newfoundland, So many planes went out and just vanished. When they would go back to the factory to pick up new planes, they came with this chronometer, and a navigation tool kit. When I was a kid, I played with the nav tools, and lost them somewhere. I sent the watch to NY a few years ago, to have it made working again, and the watch master told me he had heard of these, but had never seen one.
I carried and used the Buck 110 daily in RVN and later in Desert Storm. The goggles are my Dad’s from his early flight school at Pensacola, flying Yellow Pearls, an open cockpit bi wing trainer. The rifle is my Smith Corona 1903A3. The bayonet is for my 1943 Springfield Garand. The Colt AR mag is one I have from when I was in SF back in ‘72. It works perfectly in my rifles.
SF VET
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