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 This is an unissued Heer

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

If it had been 3-pointed with a full load it would have broken in half at the cargo door

The stampings are as follows:

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 This is an unissued HeerOriginal 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