Original U.S. WWII Vice Admiral Bertram J. Rodgers Navy Cross Ribbon Bar, Naval Aviator Wings & Signed 1941 Photograph Display - USS Salt Lake City Hero of the Battle of the Komandorski Islands Antique Winchesters Not a combat history

Not a combat history

and has has a German WWI style leather liner installed

combat groups were attached to the Desert Air Force

Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC)

The outside crown still retains the silk hat band and the Infantry Cord fitted to the cap is actually an original Civil War example

Original U.S. WWII Vice Admiral Bertram J. Rodgers Navy Cross Ribbon Bar, Naval Aviator Wings & Signed 1941 Photograph Display - USS Salt Lake City Hero of the Battle of the Komandorski Islands Antique Winchesters Not a combat historyOriginal Item: One of a Kind. This is an exceptional named U. S. Navy WWII display associated with Vice Admiral Bertram Joseph Rodgers, one of the most highly decorated American naval officers of the war and the Navy Cross recipient who commanded the heavy cruiser USS Salt Lake City (CA 25) during the desperate Battle of the Komandorski Islands on March 26, 1943. Mounted on the approximately 16 x 27 presentation board are Rodgers gold Naval Aviator