Yes, my was marked up and I was an officer, but I only wore it on patrol on my boat. Most Brown Water Navy guys in Vietnam wrote on their helmet covers. I’ll post mine when I get home next week. 

Thank you.

Nice sword bag, but so hard to date with that maker. Do you have the sword? Meyer produced swords for a long period pre and post WWII. Probably post WWII but if you have the sword and can share close ups of the grips and makers mark in blade it would help. A lot of the leather cases were not real leather and this one looks to be the real thing? 

Early US Rigger wings .

The engraving is depicted in the photos I posted. FIRUSTA-1-SETISA  1-59  

Anyone have insight into these wings? Thx S

Developed, scanned and processed the photos from the event at Bergh Castle, last weekend.  Here's a couple taken with a Leica IIIc from 1940, with a pre-war short tele-lens :   Alternative uses for Jeep wing mirrors #18 ....shaving mirror.  Interesting to note that the 'castle' had been restored just before the war, but got shot up pretty badly during.  It was again restored after. And it is currently undergoing much-needed renovations. 

Just arrived. AF & Navy veteran.

My small collection 

Here's one I've had for 25 or so years:     The galvanizing is very pronounced on this one. The medical caduceus is in the upper left hand corner. This one was never used.  Also an original copy of instructions that came with it below. The semi-clear material for the light to pass thru is called Eisenglass, and is quite fragile. I made a small "box" from cardboard to protect mine from being broken, I agree, yours is probably a "commercial" item, but is still the real deal and may have been used later or during the war anyway.      Thanks for showing this.        Steve