Original U.S. WWII B-17 Navigator Stalag Luft III POW Named Grouping - Captain Dare Ziemer Headgear and over-layers of blue with

and over-layers of blue with cut-out stars and overlaid red stripes

From a long time Collection in England

the head of which is splendidly decorated with silver inlays

It bears a brass plate engraved:

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

Original U.S. WWII B-17 Navigator Stalag Luft III POW Named Grouping - Captain Dare Ziemer Headgear and over-layers of blue withOriginal 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