Equipment Prinz Eugen

[cerick1450]

Hello

Came across this box. thought I would post for comments
.. It appears to be a auger bit box, made in the USA that was possibly on the Prinz Eugen. It has the stamped marking:
Prinz Eugen (XL300)
With a Nazi Eagle/Swastica partially removed, or scratched out...
I assume the Hull number marking was from when the US Took ownership and the Nazi Eagle from war time..
Interesting item.

[billbert]

Spent a fair amount of time at Philadelphia Navy Yard till it moved thru the Panama Canal and infamy...Billbert

[Jeff V]

Really cool box!

[glaser]

Prinz Eugen

Nice american box with postwar inscriptions PRINZ EUGEN IX-300 (not XL300), which was the hull number of the Prinz Eugen commissioned into the US Navy.

[cerick1450]

Sorry for the mistake. I knew it was IX-300. I thought this,
Prewar US Auger tool box, with a War era Nazi Eagle, and
Postwar US named to Prinz Eugen IX-300 hull number stamp.. was very cool. Only if it could talk????
Thanks to all for the assistance..

[cerick1450]

I Came across this article discussing a clock that was taken off the Prinz Eugen as a souvenir in Long Beach CA, before she sailed to the atomic testing in the Pacific...
http://wehrmacht-awards.com/forums/s...d.php?t=486682