Original U.S. WWII 1942 Army Air Corps B-17 Navigator Type A-8 Jitterbug Stopwatch by Elgin with Box Mortars A day or two later

A day or two later

they included two Boxes with 5 Morphine Tartrate Syrettes

" in script and the barrel has an armory inventory date stamped into it of 1849 (a typical German habit)

we kept trying until we got it right

Switzerland

Original U.S. WWII 1942 Army Air Corps B-17 Navigator Type A-8 Jitterbug Stopwatch by Elgin with Box Mortars A day or two laterOriginal Item: Only One Available. The Type A 8 was a navigation stopwatch designed for timing ground speed meters for determining the velocity of aircraft relative to the ground. One revolution of the Type A 8 hand was equivalent to ten seconds. The dial was white on early Wittnauer Type A 8 watches and black on Elgin watches produced from 1940 onward. Elgin, Waltham, the Federal Television Corp. and Aristo Import Co. manufactured Type A 8