Ron, it is fraktur, but a fairly early type style, just like the style in the imperial inspectors marks. I will not argue with the contention you are old :-)
The difficulty, after spelling out the text, is the technical compound words, for example the "Gable housing " is the reciever. An interesting thing is the Navy office is using a slightly different vocabulary than the army terms listed in Still or Walter.
And only Norman would set me up as a language expert. I can order a beer and find the john in a few languages, but most of them is english.
|