P-38 Lapel Pin
c. 1944
wingspan 7/8" (22 mm)
(it was made in inches)

My Aunt June's father, "Pops" Honeywell, gave me this pin during WW II.  The company he worked for in Cleveland, Ohio, supplied some of the parts to Lockheed for the P-38 Lightning.  In 1948, just before I turned 12, another aunt and her boyfriend took me to the Cleveland Air Races, where someone--could it have been Bob Hoover?--did an aerobatic routine in a P-38 and ended by shutting down both engines at several thousand feet, diving to only a couple of hundred feet and then pulling up into a loop right in front of the grandstand, and finally landing dead stick and rolling right up to the crowd.  With the engines shut down, all we could hear was the wind whirring and whistling as that Lightning looped and landed.  Fantastic!

The pin is made of brass, now tarnished, with an enameled Army Air Corps star on the wing.  The brass is in low relief, but when I scanned the images, I set the pin about 30% farther from center than my eyes are apart, so that the relief looks greater here than it really is.

Use the "walleye" method to see the left pair of images in stereo.  Use the "crosseye" method for the right pair.  I made the two scans with the pin a little too far from the center, so the depth is exaggerated somewhat.