Stadimeter Mark III in Leather Case, US Navy C-47 Above that limit

Above that limit

and possibly others

One or two gyro units almost identical in appearance with the C

California

Mark II-C consists of a battery-powered/illuminated sighting scope with interchangeble filters for overcoming the difficulty of seeing the ground through smoke

Stadimeter Mark III in Leather Case, US Navy C-47 Above that limitThis is an original WWII era Stadimeter Mark III as used aboard ships of the US Navy. A stadimeter is a rangefinder, used to determine the distance from the user to an observed known target. By viewing the target through the device and turning the knob until the presumed height of the known target is bracketed between the upper and lower limiters in the viewfinder, one can then read the distance of that target on the corresponding height on the side