Yep, but you gotta check just to make sure
No one with a number sequence 4296 and a last name beginning with C shows up in either the 1939 or 1943 National Guard Registers.
Ummmm, not too many Companies has soldiers, sailors, and airmen. Certainly Marine companies, especially rifle companies, had Marines and sailors,...
Well, those are VO-5 OS2U’s. VO-5 was assigned to BatDiv5, USS New York, USS Arkansas, and USS Texas. There three aircraft assigned to each...
12 days later, more - If this were some storage box for an officer, as you mentioned here MilitaryHistoryOnline.com - Forums it would probably...
Top one on that list, Silvano Abba, Bronze medal in Modern Pentathlon, 1936; killed in a cavalry charge on the Eastern Front. Gold went to...
You do understand, do you not, that this is a WW2 forum, not a China-Vietnam Border Conflict Forum? Perhaps you might find a more appreciative...
Where did you get it, or, perhaps, who is selling it. Some provenance would be helpful. Later . . . Never mind, I see where you provided...
It is civilian. Cut, style, fabric absolutely scream, "CIVILIAN". Why the leather lined pockets? Who knows, perhaps one of those affectations...
Download the PDF file War Department Technical Manual TM 12-427 Military Occupational Classification of Enlisted Personnel. Then you can go to...
Apparently a civilian suit jacket. What's the question?
Thach developed the "Beam Defense" and taught it to O'Hare and others present in VF-3 at San Diego in those last waning days of peace for the US...
First one is a "Ruptured Duck" discharge pin. Two and three are Quartermaster Corps branch lapel brass.
And in the north . . . vis Cotton Mather. One runs across some really odd ones though, my favorite being States Rights Gist (1831-1864 KIA at...
Certificate of Merit Medal issued for service between 1905 and 1918.
And I've nothing further to offer, lest I repost my comments re Ring in their entirety without change.
Oh, I don't think you were particularly or overly criticizing tactical doctrine at Midway. One air group (Enterprise) did not follow doctrine as...
In the 1944 revision. Not that it was not being taught and trained before that, but it was, if you will, formally incorporated into the fighter...
Don't suppose you've looked at this, have you? http://www.admiraltytrilogy.com/read/USF-74_Tact&Doct-Acft_V1-CV-Acft_194103.pdf This is the...
Well, since they both went in the water some 77 years ago, any hope of recovering their "remains" are slim and none and Slim is out of town. Not...
