Original U.S. WWI 8’ 6” x 5’ 9” US Navy Flying Boat Wooden Propeller Trench Art - Curtiss Model H German Luger Dean Gildersleeve chaired the Advisory

Dean Gildersleeve chaired the Advisory Educational Council which had earlier recommended to the Navy the selection of Lieutenant Commander Mildred McAfee

This helmet is heat-lot stamped 848A

Recruiting Station

having in fact THREE brass barrels

All three original liner retaining pins are intact and have the original tan paint on the ends

Original U.S. WWI 8’ 6” x 5’ 9” US Navy Flying Boat Wooden Propeller Trench Art - Curtiss Model H German Luger Dean Gildersleeve chaired the AdvisoryOriginal Item: One Of A Kind. The Curtiss Model H was a family of classes of early long range flying boats, the first two of which were developed directly on commission in the United States in response to the 10,000 prize challenge issued in 1913 by the London newspaper, the Daily Mail, for the first non stop aerial crossing of the Atlantic. As the first aircraft having transatlantic range and cargo carrying capacity, it became the grandfather