iron bender Posted January 28, 2023 Share #151 Posted January 28, 2023 this pic is awesome. The improvised shoulder pads, and the ring! I wonder what's the 'crest' on it. Family? Unit? Fraternity? Something local? Great pic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted February 14, 2023 Author Share #152 Posted February 14, 2023 One Milo Peck of the 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion, date and location unknown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinutemanEMTer Posted February 14, 2023 Share #153 Posted February 14, 2023 Mustache March is just around the corner. In case no one has heard of this tradition, Col. Robin Olds, USAF thumbed his nose at 'the establishment' by growing his mustache way out of what AFREG 35-10 stated at the time while as a fighter pilot in the Vietnam theater. As a salute to Col. Olds, many of those in the Air Force, especially the old Tactical Air Command grew out their mustaches in March of each year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
268th C.A. Posted February 14, 2023 Share #154 Posted February 14, 2023 Cornelius Glover, I cant find much on who he was. But he signed the RPPC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted March 17, 2023 Author Share #155 Posted March 17, 2023 A Marine Cook on The Canal, October 1942, since his fellow Cook is clean shaven, we believe he has purposely grown the beard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted March 17, 2023 Share #156 Posted March 17, 2023 Lest you doubt that swabbies could still have full beards in the 1970's, even in dress uniforms, it was called 'Tradition'... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted March 22, 2023 Author Share #157 Posted March 22, 2023 Here's one for you, Marine Gunnery Sergeant Carl Otto Ostrom 47 years old Oakland, California December 1943, just back from the South Pacific, we assume he was in the 1st Marine Division, and apparently is a medical evac, combat fatigue?, In the Marines since 1917, he is veteran of World War I, and having seen service in China, Guam, Guadalcanal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted April 30, 2023 Author Share #158 Posted April 30, 2023 Robert Henry Stanley MOH in the early 20s when he retired, won the MOH in the Boxer Rebellion in Peking as a Hospital Apprentice off USS Newark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted May 20, 2023 Author Share #159 Posted May 20, 2023 Ay Friend Another Amish Looking guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted August 10, 2023 Author Share #160 Posted August 10, 2023 1st Abn BG 327th Inf 101st Abn Div C.O. Wm Kuhn with his Mustachio LOL. Little Rock 57. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted September 16, 2023 Author Share #161 Posted September 16, 2023 The Great Beard Contest of 1941 https://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2015/06/19/the-great-beard-contest-of-1941/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brig Posted September 16, 2023 Share #162 Posted September 16, 2023 8 hours ago, patches said: The Great Beard Contest of 1941 https://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2015/06/19/the-great-beard-contest-of-1941/ Man, what that contest would do for morale in today's military.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeansEnHay Posted September 16, 2023 Share #163 Posted September 16, 2023 On 5/19/2023 at 10:31 PM, patches said: Ay Friend Another Amish Looking guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeansEnHay Posted September 16, 2023 Share #164 Posted September 16, 2023 Speaking of the Amish. I served with a Sikh soldier in the 502nd S+ T Bn (2nd AD). As a tenant of their faith, they must not cut their hair, including facial hair. Not only did he have a full beard, but wore an OD turban. He was a cook too, so a familiar face to the whole Bn. Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Rooster Posted October 3, 2023 Share #165 Posted October 3, 2023 U.S. Marines carry a wounded comrade on a stretcher during combat near the Kokumbona river. USMC/Interim Archives/Getty Images Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 4, 2023 Author Share #166 Posted October 4, 2023 Here's a first a Sailor in WWII, a Beard of course, but he has Pieced Ears! A piece of Coral perhaps??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 8, 2023 Author Share #167 Posted October 8, 2023 Two more Navy Men, this time in Vietnam like 1969 say, with an Army Americal Division Donut Dollie, believe this is in Da Nang, Americal Division stationed in the general region there, Sailors then being of Naval Support Activity Da Nang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMD Posted October 8, 2023 Share #168 Posted October 8, 2023 A dozen enlisted Navy men in the control room of the nuclear power plant at McMurdo Station, Antarctic in the mid 1960s. The PM-3A plant was designed by the Martin Corporation for the Army Nuclear Power Program, but it was operated and maintained by the Naval Nuclear Power Unit . The guys at the lower left and upper right are wearing the unit's patch, which resembles the Seabee patch with the bee carrying a geiger counter instead of a gun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atb Posted October 8, 2023 Share #169 Posted October 8, 2023 Can you comment on the headgear? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMD Posted October 8, 2023 Share #170 Posted October 8, 2023 Under magnification, it looks like the berets have a patch with a symbol of the atom, and a metal rank insignia (normally for the shirt collar) is pinned to the patch. I would like to know about the patch with the cat and top hat, worn by the man on the left of the front row. I am not familiar with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted November 13, 2023 Author Share #171 Posted November 13, 2023 A Swabbie with a beard, could be from the mid 70s when the Navy had those uniforms, and he is say not a Chief but a PO 1st Class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted December 17, 2023 Author Share #172 Posted December 17, 2023 He's Henry Pierson Crowe, USMC,1945, 8th Marines, The Canal, Tarawa, Saipan, long diverse carrier in the Marines, came in late WWI, October 1918, got out in sometime in 1919, came back in in sometime in 1921, was in Korea, retired in 1960 as a Full Colonel, 40 years all told, didn't make Brigadier General for some reason. Cool Mustache right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted December 29, 2023 Author Share #173 Posted December 29, 2023 Radioman First Class Benjamin A. Bottoms United States Coast Guard WWII with his specifcally grown beard, Bottoms died in those Greenland rescue attempts of a Flying Fortress Crew in November 1942. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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