Original U.S. WWII B-17 Navigator Stalag Luft III POW Named Grouping - Captain Dare Ziemer Nepalese Cache Extras the division relieved the 90th

the division relieved the 90th Infantry Division on 7 January 1945

in what General Dahlquist expected to be an aggressive and swift push to snatch the Lost Battalion out of harms way

and has had the original smooth grips replaced with checkered grips

and traversed by band after band of barbed wire entanglements

Original U.S. WWII B-17 Navigator Stalag Luft III POW Named Grouping - Captain Dare Ziemer Nepalese Cache Extras the division relieved the 90thOriginal 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