Original U.S. WWII Captured Japanese Aircraft Aluminum Fragment with Soldier’s Inscription & Partial Meatball Insignia on Reverse Japanese Military Maps from July to December 1941

from July to December 1941

as well as tooled leather like this example

two of its battalions are mechanized infantry

begins as follows: From 1915 to 1930 I had managed to gather a large curio collection and to keep it in an ordinary dwelling such as my home in Haddonfield

A very nice example with a desirable 26" octagonal barrel

Original U.S. WWII Captured Japanese Aircraft Aluminum Fragment with Soldier’s Inscription & Partial Meatball Insignia on Reverse Japanese Military Maps from July to December 1941Original Item. One of a Kind. This is a really fantastic display piece, a captured fragment of aircraft skin off of a Japanese fighter plane shot down in the Philippines, namely around Leyte. The soldier who captured this piece used it to write a letter home, and from his mention of fighting at Okinawa, he may have been a Marine. The piece of aluminum measures roughly 4 x 7 and depicts part of the edge of the Meatball insignia painted on the side of