Original U.S. WWI Navy Named Flat Hat for the Minelayer USS Saranac - Laid 4,782 Mines in North Sea Mine Barrage Brown Bess Muskets and the Second Battalion halted

and the Second Battalion halted in rear of the Third

These pieces were queried directly from the family of a New Jersey WW2 veteran

Also included are internal components not used during construction of the display gun

government assigned Curtiss-Wright a defense production factory for wartime aircraft construction at Louisville

The 28th Regiment of foot was originally raised in 1694 as Sir John Gibson's Regiment of Foot and has a sparkling history of battles and actions right up to the Napoleonic Wars

Original U.S. WWI Navy Named Flat Hat for the Minelayer USS Saranac - Laid 4,782 Mines in North Sea Mine Barrage Brown Bess Muskets and the Second Battalion haltedOriginal Item. One of a Kind. The USS Saranac was the Old Dominion Steamship Company Hamilton temporarily converted for planting the World War I North Sea Mine Barrage. John Roach & Sons launched Hamilton at Chester, Pennsylvania in 1899. Hamilton steamed between Norfolk, Virginia and New York City until The United States Shipping Board took control of the ship from Old Dominion Steamship Company in 1917. She was fitted out for United States Navy