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WW2 Royal Air Force Escape Button and Compass
WW2 Royal Air Force Escape Button and Compass
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WW2 Royal Air Force Escape Button and Compass
This very rare button looks like an ordinary RAF tunic button but when the back is unscrewed it reveals a small compass.
Used by downed/captured pilots in their escape attempts
This example is the early type with the standard anticlockwise turn to undo (right hand thread). Later this was changed to a clockwise thread to undo (left hand thread) when the Germans realised that some buttons concealed escape aids. Marked on the reverse J.R.GAUNT & SON LONDON complete with shank. Very well engineered and in excellent condition. I very nice piece of history a
An original item in good condition