Jeff Thanks for that . . . Find a Grave was my target for tonight Rich
Yeah, got all that from collected VF-3 war diaries already - probably from your same source. And even others whose first, and in a couple of...
Holy Crap! Rich is actually asking a question! So . . . looking at some USAAF folks in Hawaii in mid 1942. . . I have ranks, initials, and last...
The only USN aircraft carriers present in Tokyo Bay at the surrender were USS Bataan (CVL-29), USS Cowpens (CVL-25), and USS Salamaua (CVE-96)....
A sailor, not, as traditionally termed, "GI" as referring to a soldier.
Well, in my first two years at that obscure military college outside Lexington VA, we were issued and trained with M-1s (then switched to...
Anyone besides me think he's holding it funny.
US Infantry, company, platoon, squad were trained from as early as the 1911 Infantry Drill Regulations, see Infantry drill regulations, 1911 :...
Welcome back, Terry! Always good to see an old rogue return to the fold! Rich
For the US in the WW2 years . . . From the 1947 Official Munitions Production report of the War Production Board covering the period 1 July 1940...
For the US in the WW2 years . . . From the 1947 Official Munitions Production report of the War Production Board covering the 1 July 1940 to 31...
Brigadier General Benjamin O Davis, Sr., USA, was not a USMA graduate; he did not attend West Point. His son, General Benjamin O Davis, Jr.,...
One of my earliest memories is of the blimp hangars at Moffett Field, especially Hangar 1. We were there in 1954-55 when my father commanded...
I've a nice list of USN backseat radio-gunners credits. Tend to be pretty much one on one, though a few are multiple gunners shooting at one...
If that's the way you received the jacket from the gent or his estate, I'd presume that's the way he set up his ribbon bars. Is it correct? Not...
Surprisingly to many, a majority of AVG pilots were former naval aviators. My father, an Ensign and a pilot in VF-42 on USS Ranger when the AVG...
One generally tries to avoid using radio callsigns that would identify an actual unit or, perhaps, even one's mission, hence the 4V58 rather than,...
I see where the Grim Economics write up has been mentioned. Overall, Tony Tully's Combined Fleet site is a treasure trove of information...
FDR library has, literally, a ton of documents . . . most of the really good stuff is buried in the Map Room papers, which are here: Franklin D....
Rainwater, Lowell E (3556423), RM1c, USN, USS Helena received aboard from Receiving Ship New York for duty 18 Sep 1939, last enlistment noted as...
