BEAST Posted March 5, 2013 #26 Posted March 5, 2013 Woa ho, nice one BEAST, you were holding out on us Your Father, what unit was he in, we just see a smidgen of his shoulder patch Patches, Dad served with the 319th Medical Bn, 94th Infantry Division. I have a couple other photos of friends of his sporting goatees. However by V-E Day, they are all clean shaven.
Garandomatic Posted March 6, 2013 #27 Posted March 6, 2013 Here's my 34th Division guy, went into North Africa, was rotated home in September or so 1944.
patches Posted March 6, 2013 Author #28 Posted March 6, 2013 Patches, Dad served with the 319th Medical Bn, 94th Infantry Division. I have a couple other photos of friends of his sporting goatees. However by V-E Day, they are all clean shaven. Ah yes Brittany December 1944, just before the Neuf Quatre Division was sent to the front line in early January, where in approximately three months of combat suffered over 1,000 combat deaths and over 4,000 wounded.
mark leonard Posted March 7, 2013 #29 Posted March 7, 2013 This rowdy looking bunch is a PBY Black Cat crew VP-54 Guadalcanal 1943 ,goatee and some really BIG hair.
patches Posted March 7, 2013 Author #30 Posted March 7, 2013 Really Big Hair I love that one Mark, those two down in front are early sporters of the Rockabillie look maybe they orignated it post war
Gregory Posted November 3, 2013 #31 Posted November 3, 2013 Capt. Francis A. O'Neill, Naples, Italy, October 1943.
littlebuddy Posted November 3, 2013 #32 Posted November 3, 2013 Really Big Hair I love that one Mark, those two down in front are early sporters of the Rockabillie look maybe they orignated it post war AYYY !! nothing wrong with the rockabilly look !!! the photo ??? yours truly LB
Gregory Posted November 3, 2013 #33 Posted November 3, 2013 Air traffic controller Cpl Gerard A. Wilson, Clark Airfield, 1941
Gregory Posted November 4, 2013 #34 Posted November 4, 2013 Eugene M. Caffey, Commander, 20th Engineer Regiment, 1941-1943
Gregory Posted November 4, 2013 #35 Posted November 4, 2013 I read somewhere that facial hair was generally considered a no-no for combat troops in WW2 because its presence prevented a good air-tight seal if a gas mask had to be worn. Same applied to aviators' oxygen masks. Generally speaking -- through the decades there was (is?) a lifestyle trend to think that social outcast only do not shave themselves.
38Driver Posted November 4, 2013 #36 Posted November 4, 2013 I think these two USAAF pilots fit the profile.
GITom1944 Posted November 5, 2013 #39 Posted November 5, 2013 Ships doctor in battledress. Cdr Letcher, USS Manila Feb 1945.
patches Posted November 5, 2013 Author #40 Posted November 5, 2013 Ships doctor in battledress. Cdr Letcher, USS Manila Feb 1945. JEEZ he looks almost like Anton LaVay Who was Anton LaVay? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_LaVey
notinfringed Posted November 6, 2013 #41 Posted November 6, 2013 I think I have posted these somewhere at some point or another. These are Coast Guard boys stationed at Eldred Rock lighthouse here in Alaska in 1943. I don't know if the Coast Guard had different regs on facial hair, but it seems to almost be a prerequisite for life in Alaska.
PaulR Posted November 6, 2013 #42 Posted November 6, 2013 I think that during WW2, the CG was the only branch that allowed for the growing of a beard... I am suprised to see all of these eccentric facial hair patterns. Surely they were the exception....
Gregory Posted November 18, 2013 #43 Posted November 18, 2013 Story of the Black Cats movie of 1942 -- more facial hair to observe.
Johndanger Posted May 6, 2014 #44 Posted May 6, 2014 one of the fullest Army beards I have seen, George Legg, Germany spring 1945, George decided not to shave after D Day
patches Posted May 6, 2014 Author #45 Posted May 6, 2014 one of the fullest Army beards I have seen, George Legg, Germany spring 1945, George decided not to shave after D Day Now this guy looks like Wildman from the old Sgt Rock comics
HoovieDude Posted May 6, 2014 #46 Posted May 6, 2014 Menly men! I'm jealous they got away with it. Gotta love the mentality the last few decades that your war fighting skills and abilities are directly tied to how high and tight your haircut is, and how smooth shaven your jaws be. I was one of the what seemed like only a handful of rebels and wore a mustache my entire career. Most of the time, pushing the regs, if not exceeding them, on its length, etc.. Was worth it, even when the target of the CSM's ire
patches Posted August 27, 2014 Author #47 Posted August 27, 2014 A waxed mustashe is sported by 2nd Lieutenant James Kemp, a Signal Corps Officer of the 3rd Signal Company, 3rd Infantry Division. Kemp was KIA after Anzio on June 3 1944, proving that even the support units of the 3rd Div were not immune to the massive casualties suffered by this Division during WWII. Kemp was actually an EM before this, and very unusual for a Signal unit, received a battlefield commision, this might of had something to do with the fact that for actions while performing some mission, Wire Laying?, in November 43 at or near the Volturno he was awarded the Silver Star.
GeneralLucas Posted September 1, 2014 #48 Posted September 1, 2014 This article was published on page 27 in the April 1945 issue of Air Force Magazine...
GITom1944 Posted September 11, 2014 #49 Posted September 11, 2014 Here's a WW2 Navy UDT swimmer photographed by Edward Steichen.
BROBS Posted September 11, 2014 #50 Posted September 11, 2014 This article was published on page 27 in the April 1945 issue of Air Force Magazine... "The WAC Scratcher"
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