Manufactured by the Hamilton Watch Co., this pocket watch was issued to Captain Warren H. Delker, a B-29 aircraft commander assigned to the 497th Bomb Group in Saipan during WWII. He flew in the Tokyo fire raids of 9-13 March 1945. Later in the U.S. Air Force he flew missions during the Berlin Airlift.
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