patches Posted March 15 Share #601 Posted March 15 Captain Charles H. Jones Battery C 466th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion 17th Airborne Division. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted March 17 Share #602 Posted March 17 The Longest Day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted March 17 Share #603 Posted March 17 On 3/10/2023 at 11:23 PM, iron bender said: What is the jacket far left? Inside out 1st model winter combat? Would say its a shawl collar sweater maybe even civilian. Doesnt have a waist band like the tanker jackets. The upper pocket is interesting also Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted March 21 Share #604 Posted March 21 A Australian Navy Officer wearing a American Pot, might be a Grey painted one Her Majesty The Queen, 12/17/1943. MAKIN ISLAND – Queen Tabonou, of the Gilbertese Natives, gets a light for her cigarette from Lt. Bruno Raymond, Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserves, who was born in the central Pacific islands. The Queen hadn’t seen Raymond since he was a baby. He “Visited his home town” after the allies captured Makin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted March 22 Share #605 Posted March 22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted March 23 Share #606 Posted March 23 Medic with rank marked liner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted March 23 Share #607 Posted March 23 Hugh McHugh, shown with his 4×5 Speed Graphic PH-104, was killed by a sniper January 15, 1945 in Belgium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted March 25 Share #608 Posted March 25 Portrait in Steel Helmet Bernard Picchi HQ Company 1142nd Combat Engineer Group Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted March 26 Share #609 Posted March 26 Iwo Jima 1945 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted March 27 Share #610 Posted March 27 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted March 31 Share #611 Posted March 31 I was gong to post this one in The Tobacco Pipe topic, but lets post him here instead. He's Daniel Aaron of COMCAST, in WWII he was an Armored Infantryman in the 58th Armored Infantry Battalion 8th Armored Division. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted April 3 Share #612 Posted April 3 Appears to be a signal corps patch on the cuff of the left sleeve. Lt. rank on jacket and NCO bar to helmet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted April 6 Share #613 Posted April 6 GI poses for a picture along the River Rhine somewhere in Germany - Mar/April 1945 Note K-Ration boxes tied together LIFE Magazine Archives - William Vandivert Photographer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted April 6 Share #614 Posted April 6 Two Personnel with the US 2nd Armored Division prepare to blow some railroad tracks somewhere in Germany - April 1945 LIFE Magazine Archives - William Vandivert Photographer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted April 6 Share #615 Posted April 6 Four GI’s pose for a picture in North Africa - Early 1943 LIFE Magazine Archives - Eliot Elisofon Photographer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted April 10 Share #616 Posted April 10 Believe these are of the 76th Inf Div at Camp McCoy in July1944. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted April 14 Share #617 Posted April 14 Eniwetok Island, Marshall’s, 19 Feb, 1944 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikie Posted April 14 Share #618 Posted April 14 All great pictures, Ron. I appreciate you posting them all the time. Way too many to Like each one so I’ll give you a collective LIKE 👍 here. mikie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted April 15 Share #619 Posted April 15 22 hours ago, mikie said: All great pictures, Ron. I appreciate you posting them all the time. Way too many to Like each one so I’ll give you a collective LIKE 👍 here. mikie Thanks Mikie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted April 15 Share #620 Posted April 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T BIRD Posted April 15 Share #621 Posted April 15 Collective LIKE from me as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglerunner88 Posted April 15 Share #622 Posted April 15 52 minutes ago, doyler said: You can see the homemade dog tag silencers made from a gas mask hose, most likely Japanese. These are G.I.s of the 129 Infantry, 37th ID. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tthen Posted April 15 Share #623 Posted April 15 On 4/6/2023 at 11:48 AM, doyler said: GI poses for a picture along the River Rhine somewhere in Germany - Mar/April 1945 Note K-Ration boxes tied together LIFE Magazine Archives - William Vandivert Photographer Very cool late war picture Ron. Goes it look like this GI has a Kerr sling on his rifle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted April 16 Share #624 Posted April 16 5 hours ago, eaglerunner88 said: You can see the homemade dog tag silencers made from a gas mask hose, most likely Japanese. These are G.I.s of the 129 Infantry, 37th ID. This photo is also posted on Facebook, gives a name of Pineapple Thrower, Charles Wolverton, if this is correct then he was decorated late in the war with The Soldiers Medal as a Staff Sergeant. https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/502546 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted April 16 Share #625 Posted April 16 10th Mountain Parka worn white side out and appears to be a carbine pouch on the Garand rifle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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