Original U.S. WWII Captured Japanese Aircraft Aluminum Fragment with Soldier’s Inscription & Partial Meatball Insignia on Reverse Japanese Military Maps as well as tooled leather

as well as tooled leather like this example

It was last assigned to the post-World War II-era 47th Bombardment Wing

The set is named to one Friedrich Russmeier

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

and there is a chunk missing on the inner side

Original U.S. WWII Captured Japanese Aircraft Aluminum Fragment with Soldier’s Inscription & Partial Meatball Insignia on Reverse Japanese Military Maps as well as tooled leatherOriginal 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