Original U.S. WWII Named Scrapbook and Photo Album With Over 300 Photos and Documents - 1st Sgt Carl Flieshman 716th Railway Battalion Martini-Henry Parts so different dates is standard

so different dates is standard

This is an unissued Heer tropical pattern overseas cap worn by NCO & enlisted ranks in the DAK and southern Europe

and it is dated on the blade's spine 17 under a proof mark of a Crown over W

General Matthew Ridgway

Original U.S. WWII Named Scrapbook and Photo Album With Over 300 Photos and Documents - 1st Sgt Carl Flieshman 716th Railway Battalion Martini-Henry Parts so different dates is standardOriginal Items: One Of A Kind. The mission of a railway operating battalion was to manage and maintain a designated section of a military railway in a theater of operations. Unlike civilian railroads, however, the battalions also had to be prepared to destroy the line it operated. In general, a railway operating battalion could maintain and operate between ninety and 150 miles of single track railroad, although its actual area of responsibility in