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Hi

I was trying to restore this uniform and think i may have found the right guy in the muster rolls. Need some advice/help. Gerald H Delin enlisted Sep 1942 and went into a signal battery in Jan if 43. He skipped around between the 1st marine amphibious corps and the 3rd marine amphibious corps until July of 44 showing as a corporal. This is where I need help. In oct of 44 he is shown both in the 3rd amphibious corps and also in the 2nd marine division(did this happen)? Last muster rolls show him in the 5th amphibious corps in Jan of 45. Question is do you think I have the right guy. I will post ghosts of what looks like corporal chevrons and what may be a 5th amphibious corps SSI. Also a ghost of an honorable discharge patch. The coat is dated dec 1 1943. You be the judge!!!

 

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Do you think they would have sewn straight across the top of this 5th amphibious corps patch?

 

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You can see where red thread was used

 

 

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In one October muster roll he is among those "temporarily attached."

Got ya. So he probably was temporarily there and then went back to his amphibious Corp group. Any thought on what the SSI ghost might be?

 

 

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3rd Marine division? Doesn't really look like it but maybe a sloppy sewing job?

 

EDIT: I see he wasn't in the 3rd Mar Div.

 

What about 3rd Marine Amphibious Corps? Could be sewn straight across, like you said.

 

 

 

 

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3rd Marine division?  Doesn't really look like it but maybe a sloppy sewing job? 

 

EDIT:  I see he wasn't in the 3rd Mar Div. 

 

What about 3rd Marine Amphibious Corps?  Could be sewn straight across, like you said. 

 

 

 

 

Yeah I was either thinking the 3rd or the 5th but either way they would have had to have sewn straight across the top slightly but could have happened. They were probably trying to save time.

 

 

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