Original U.S. WWII B-17 Navigator Stalag Luft III POW Named Grouping - Captain Dare Ziemer Headgear and I went down to

and I went down to London with a P-38 pilot

From a long time Collection in England

Our example is totally inert

The leather covering to the ribbed wooden grip is mostly missing

It was recovered some time after the war in in Europe

Original U.S. WWII B-17 Navigator Stalag Luft III POW Named Grouping - Captain Dare Ziemer Headgear and I went down toOriginal Item: One of a kind. This is a complete grouping named to Captain Dare D. Ziemer ASN 0674823 who was a Bombardier on a B 17 in the 708th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. On only his second mission, to Berlin, on April 29th, 1944 his plane was shot down by a German Me109 fighter. Moments before he was shot down he was credited with gunning down a German plane which is what lead to his Air Medal. He bailed out of the failed