patches Posted December 4, 2022 Author #351 Posted December 4, 2022 A Brother and a Sister in The Pacific. A Joseph Piscopo Pfc., US Army, and his sister, Matilda Corporal WACs somewhere out there. probably in 1944.
Bluehawk Posted December 28, 2022 #352 Posted December 28, 2022 1953, filming of "Glenn Miller Story" in hangar 1 at Lowry AFB
patches Posted December 30, 2022 Author #353 Posted December 30, 2022 April 27, 1944 U. C. L. A. Joe E. Brown stands at painted portrait of his son Captain Don E. Brown who was killed in 1942, he was in the 6th Ferrying Group, a unit that "Ferried" newly built planes from the factories in California to their assigned units nation wide was killed when the A-20 "Havoc" he was ferrying east crashed near Palm Springs, California, on October 8, 1942. Joe E. Brown's other boy Joe L. Brown also was in the Air Corps in the war, but it is not noted if he was too a pilot or what he was or did in the AC.
patches Posted January 17, 2023 Author #354 Posted January 17, 2023 Jean Faircloth MacArthur as a honored guest at some function with President Reagan and the First Lady, sometime in the 80s obviously.
patches Posted February 1, 2023 Author #355 Posted February 1, 2023 Found a couple of Marine Corps Main Gate photos. This first, from the 50s of Twentynine Palms,
patches Posted February 1, 2023 Author #356 Posted February 1, 2023 And this early 60s one of the Yuma base, now what dose the extra A mean in the MCAAS, would of thought it would just be MCAS for Marine Corps Air Station right.
Wailuna Posted February 1, 2023 #357 Posted February 1, 2023 22 minutes ago, patches said: And this early 60s one of the Yuma base, now what dose the extra A mean in the MCAAS, would of thought it would just be MCAS for Marine Corps Air Station right.
patches Posted February 1, 2023 Author #359 Posted February 1, 2023 22 minutes ago, Wailuna said: Try "auxiliary" Thank you. That's got to it then, an early now forgotten and never mentioned name of Yuma
patches Posted February 11, 2023 Author #360 Posted February 11, 2023 William F. Dean during his Ticker Tape Parade in NYC October 26, 1953.
patches Posted February 22, 2023 Author #361 Posted February 22, 2023 This is captioned as a Action Photo, as GIs of the 25th Infantry Division take cover at Outpost Carson during an Chinese Mortar barrage
patches Posted March 13, 2023 Author #362 Posted March 13, 2023 Pfc Henke Milburn January 26 1942, of B Company, 135th Infantry Regiment 34th Division, Milburn is credited as the first American Soldier to set foot in Great Britain, well actually Northern Ireland, which of course is in Great Britain. Naturally he wasn't the first, there were a lot of American Soldiers in Britain by then, individuals right, the 34th Div commander in example, Russell P. Hartle, had been ashore awhile, probably a bunch of division staff officers too.
patches Posted May 2, 2023 Author #364 Posted May 2, 2023 USS Perch negotiates through a field of Pancake Ice during a cruise up in the North Pole in 1953.
Salvage Sailor Posted June 25, 2023 #366 Posted June 25, 2023 Yes lad, the Japanese were our allies in World War One, (before World War One, part II) Senior officers of the U.S. 2nd Division at the front showing a Japanese delegation the enemy's position of the sector on the map. Brigadier General Albert J. Bowley is second on the left, while Marine Major General John A. Lejeune, commanding the 2nd Division, is third on the right.
patches Posted July 5, 2023 Author #367 Posted July 5, 2023 Private First Class Kerry Nelson, M48 Patton Tank Crewman, a Gunner M Troop 3rd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment peers into his scopes 1967 Nelson would be awarded a silver Star. https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/84966
patches Posted August 10, 2023 Author #368 Posted August 10, 2023 A wounded Raider of the Makin Operation being taken off the Sub USS Argonaut at Pearl Harbor, 26 August 1942. Interested to know who and why a civilian is involved, could he be a dock worker lending a hand??? But then he doesn't seem to wearing work like cloths right!
patches Posted August 21, 2023 Author #369 Posted August 21, 2023 Troopers of the old Triple Nickel at Fort Benning in April 1944, note how they're all armed with the Grease Gun.
patches Posted September 10, 2023 Author #370 Posted September 10, 2023 In the Summer of 1965, Marines move across a field, don't know unit or back story on this one, the one has no helmet we see, under fire and lost it, and now moves out without it?????
patches Posted November 3, 2023 Author #371 Posted November 3, 2023 A Behind the scenes shot of Cliff Robertson as Sgt. Edward Baxter and Marius Goring as "German Commandant" The film is the 1965 Up From The Beach.
patches Posted December 12, 2023 Author #372 Posted December 12, 2023 Finally came across that Wartime photo of Der Bingel wearing that German Helmet, Der Bingel, that's what German Troops called him Bing Crosby, these being both POW in the States and those still in there fighting, Those in action getting him on their radios. https://tralfaz.blogspot.com/2015/02/bing-crosby-secret-weapon.html
Salvage Sailor Posted January 24, 2024 #374 Posted January 24, 2024 The 542nd Parachute Infantry Regiment was a regiment of the US Army during the World War II. Originally formed as a fully fledged regiment, the unit was later downsized to a battalion and kept in reserve in the United States until mid-1945 when it was deactivated.
Bluehawk Posted January 30, 2024 #375 Posted January 30, 2024 From film Rosalie (1937) "Dick Thorpe (Nelson Eddy) is a football star for the Army at West Point, and Rosalie (Eleanor Powell), a Vassar student who is also a princess (Princess Rosalie of Romanza) in disguise, watches a football game. They are attracted to each other and agree to meet in her country in Europe."
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