Gregory Posted January 18, 2012 Share #1 Posted January 18, 2012 Source: Flying, Vol. XXXII, No. 1, January 1943 Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuftStalg1 Posted January 18, 2012 Share #2 Posted January 18, 2012 So thats how grandmas life of crime started! :w00t: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FA_MAJ Posted January 18, 2012 Share #3 Posted January 18, 2012 To be fair, they kind of are frat pins... (Artillery officer now ducks to avoid objects thrown by aviators.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share #4 Posted January 18, 2012 So thats how grandmas life of crime started! :w00t: :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack's Son Posted January 18, 2012 Share #5 Posted January 18, 2012 My Mom never wore the ones given to her.....but she let me wear them. :pinch: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Cooper Posted January 19, 2012 Share #6 Posted January 19, 2012 Very cool! Just thinkof how hard this would have been to enforce and then all the problems it would cause on the home front. Cheers John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwb123 Posted January 19, 2012 Share #7 Posted January 19, 2012 This is pure 1940's... tongue in cheek satire on the one hand, while authoritarian on the other. It's like the author felt he or she had to give the official line about fines and penalties, and yet they felt obligated that mom's, sweethearts, and wives were doing it all over the country. A nice example about how people were so conflicted about social conventions back then. Like "Hey, that's illegal... but then again, there's a war on, so go right ahead!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Ragan Posted January 19, 2012 Share #8 Posted January 19, 2012 My Mom wore a 2" set of AAF Navigators wings on a sailors white hat. Her oldest brother was an enlisted man in the Navy, and another brother was an officer in the AAF. This sort of thing was pretty popular when she was in high school during WWII. I now have those 2" Navigator wings as part of my late uncles grouping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USMCRECON Posted January 23, 2012 Share #9 Posted January 23, 2012 To be fair, they kind of are frat pins... (Artillery officer now ducks to avoid objects thrown by aviators.) I dunno, about Army insignia and such but my Eagle Globe and Anchor devices are no frat pins. :pinch: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DutchInfid3l Posted January 23, 2012 Share #10 Posted January 23, 2012 To be fair, they kind of are frat pins... (Artillery officer now ducks to avoid objects thrown by aviators.) Neidermeyer: Redo those buttons! Dress that belt buckle! Straighten that cap! And goddamn it, tuck in those pajamas! Attention! Eyes front! What's that on your chest, mister? Kent: It's a pledge pin, sir. Neidermeyer: A pledge pin! On your uniform?! :lol2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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