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Consider the many other classes included 544 PT Boats, and some 82,266 landing craft built during the war! Every vessel required binoculars. Navy was operating some 6,768 ships (vessels 100 feet or longer) including: 23 battleships, 28 aircraft carriers, 71 escort carriers, 72 cruisers, more than 288 submarines, 377 destroyers, and thousands of patrol, amphibious, supply, and auxiliary ships. And finally, the tie in to the fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond 007 was too irresistible to overlook.This was developed by The Greatest Generation: men and women who developed a qualitative edge in technology, superior manufacturing capacity, and who made up the forces that with adaptable leadership and some guts too defeated Hitler, Hirohito, and their minions.the organization that produced these was the Washington Navy Yard optics shop - in itself an interesting story.this typifies that famous Yankee Ingenuity, in this case where production military binoculars were adapted to serve a different purpose,.it was made, and not in great numbers, specifically for use by the Captains and Gun Fire Control Officers of the Battleships and Cruisers in the greatest naval force ever engaged in war: the United States Navy*,.We were pretty excited about finding a Mark 37 binocular in good condition because: Image courtesy collection of Company Seven (73,613 bytes).Ĭlick on image to see enlarged view (245,393 bytes). Naval Gun Factory Mark 37 - 9x 63 binocular. In time we will acquire, exhibit, and write about others. Navy Mark XLIV 7x 50 SARD binocular, also from 1944. This Mark 37 is displayed near our Bausch & Lomb Mark 28 Mod 0 and U.S. military issue binocular, and is now on permanent exhibit at our showroom museum among our collection of interesting or significant optics. Navy issued 9x 63 Porro Prism binocular set, specifically a Mark 37 made in 1944. On 23 March 2016 Company Seven acquired a U.S. Naval Gun Factory Mark 37 - 9x 63 Binocular Of World War IIĪ historic product exhibited among others in the permanent collection at Company Seven ORD Mark 37Ĭ-7 Home Page C-7 News Consignment Library Products & Services Product Lines Order Search C7.com
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