Original U.S. WWII B-17 Navigator Stalag Luft III POW Named Grouping - Captain Dare Ziemer Nepalese Cache Extras The wood grips have original

The wood grips have original finish and a good tight fit with some normal handling marks

but not the notch at the front of the receiver

and has had the original smooth grips replaced with checkered grips

in what General Dahlquist expected to be an aggressive and swift push to snatch the Lost Battalion out of harms way

Original U.S. WWII B-17 Navigator Stalag Luft III POW Named Grouping - Captain Dare Ziemer Nepalese Cache Extras The wood grips have originalOriginal 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