Great color photo 92nd div engrs helmets

[BILL THE PATCH]

Found this picture In a book I have, I thought helmets were great. Engr castles. The corporal of n front has it painted on side, the guy in background has on the front.

 

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[sundance]

Great shot. It's the digging for mines part that is so unsettling.

[patches]

Here's one more from the activity, they are of the 317th Eng Bn 92nd Inf Div, and are clearing a minefield along the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea at Viareggio, March 1945.

 

 

 

[BILL THE PATCH]

I guess a medic would be handy, he's a little to close to be if any help if it went KaBoom.

 

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[nirvana]

It seems like black soldiers often got assigned the worst jobs back when the army was segregated. I worked with a gentleman some years back who was as part of a unit that handled ordnance. Obviously there were some combat units towards the end of the war, but that seems to have been an afterthought. A very interesting era in history.

[irish]

Another example would be the Port Chicago Disaster during WW2 where a disproportionate high number of black enlisted men were killed.

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Sergeant has relatively large chevrons on his lid for WW2, no?

[ken88]

Sergeant has relatively large chevrons on his lid for WW2, no?

 

 

Here's a helmet I've had for a while just out of interest; can't tell if it's an overzealous pfc marking or some kind of tactical marking no one knows about.

 

[Burning Hazard]

Large insignia was common; I noticed a lot were typically units behind lines for easy identification.

 

Pat

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Here is my front seam, swivel bail with rather large private stripe. White paint is old and original. Do you guys think it could be WW2?

 

 

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close up of chevron