www.devilfinder.com World War Two Aircraft Radio Compass

My old buddy owns an ex U.S.Navy Ship Compass.He was in the U.S.Navy
active duty for four years on the U.S.S.Ticonderoga back in the early
1960's (they were shootin at Whales,Tonkin Gulf incident,at the same
time,I was humping ammo in Vietnam) and in the U.S.Navy Reserve unit
here in Jackson.One day they were getting rid of some old things at the
Reserve unit he retired from here in Jackson on Jefferson Street and
they gave him the Compass and an Anvil (I have been trying to talk him
out of that old Anvil for many years) and a few other things.One of the
balls was missing from the Compass (it is a big heavy Compass,stands
over waist high, and about twenty years later I was in Pensacola,Florida
and I saw a big store that sells antique nautitcal things and they had a
Compass ball in there for sale for $40.00.I phoned my old buddy long
distance and I asked him what diameter the Compass ball on his Compass
is.I bought that Compass ball at the store in Pensacola for him.
cuhulin