Can be used as a key ring to clip to a belt loop such as duty gunners mate for armory keys. Possibly lashed to a life line around pilot's ladder access.
@Stephen: we has a winner: They are found on signal flags - - usually well tarnished. Friends of the signalmen usually are able to acquire them for keyrings, as Senior has apparently done.
Hi Bob, 'Still have my "original" from my old Navy daze aboard the USS Princeton LPH-5. 'Still have the first "P-38" aka "John Wayne" with it. Got a bunch of em' from a signalman, my original has a small anchor on the shank. BSBD, III%, skybill-out
Hi Bob, 'Still have my "original" from my old Navy daze aboard the USS Princeton LPH-5. 'Still have the first "P-38" aka "John Wayne" with it. Got a bunch of em' from a signalman, my original has a small anchor on the shank. BSBD, III%, skybill-out
@skybill: I too once had a signal flag clip with an anchor marking, lost long ago. Strangely enough, I once bought a brass buckle for a 2" belt that had the same anchor marking, so I guess it came from the same foundry. Thanks for commenting!
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Can be used as a key ring to clip to a belt loop such as duty gunners mate for armory keys. Possibly lashed to a life line around pilot's ladder access.
ReplyDeleteIt hangs from Senior's shorts with a ton of keys. Flags.
ReplyDeleteStephen, why are you wanting my shorts to fall down? Hmmm, Lol.
ReplyDelete@SENIOR: good secondary uses. :)
ReplyDelete@Stephen: we has a winner: They are found on signal flags - - usually well tarnished. Friends of the signalmen usually are able to acquire them for keyrings, as Senior has apparently done.
Late as usual... I 'had' one... long since disappeared into one of the daughter's hands... Sigh
ReplyDelete@Old NFO: check your email.
ReplyDeleteHi Bob,
ReplyDelete'Still have my "original" from my old Navy daze aboard the USS Princeton LPH-5. 'Still have the first "P-38" aka "John Wayne" with it. Got a bunch of em' from a signalman, my original has a small anchor on the shank.
BSBD,
III%,
skybill-out
Hi Bob,
ReplyDelete'Still have my "original" from my old Navy daze aboard the USS Princeton LPH-5. 'Still have the first "P-38" aka "John Wayne" with it. Got a bunch of em' from a signalman, my original has a small anchor on the shank.
BSBD,
III%,
skybill-out
@skybill: I too once had a signal flag clip with an anchor marking, lost long ago. Strangely enough, I once bought a brass buckle for a 2" belt that had the same anchor marking, so I guess it came from the same foundry. Thanks for commenting!
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