Officer AAF Blue Mess Dress Uniform Help

[patches]

That too is why they are listed by branch in all the official records by branch, they sign it when signing orders, documents etc  take Blackman he would sing stuff as

 

Lt Col Edward B. Blackman

 Inf

[Edelweisse]

I recently attended an estate sale and picked up a “named” white (summer) mess dress w/o any sleeve Austrian braids…or shoulder board knots.  It came with buttons in a separate bag and I have a set of real gold braid knots.

[patches]

12 hours ago, patches said:

By the record posted, he seems to have been officer since WWII A Air Corps Pilot, perhaps the 1947 date in his registry is when he entered the Army proper and did not go into the new Air Force, and became a Army Aviator, thus the 1963 article in Aviation Digest.

 

Was just looking around for more on him, it's strange there is nothing on him.

And we just noticed he was in the Navy in the late 30s wow,

[Edelweisse]

WOW…he got around…HOSPITAL APPRENTICE 2ND CLASS (HA 2/c)

[tafh63]

7 hours ago, patches said:

And one more.

Patrick Brady MOH, now Brady was commissioned in the Medical Service Corps. So like Blackman with his Infantry Blue Facings on his Mess Jacket, Brady's will be Medical Corps Maroon, and so on and so on.

 

 

 

 

One note about medical service corps flyers after the creation of the Army Aviation Branch. While officers in other branches (i.e. infantry, engineers, signal corps, etc.) became "Aviation" Branch officers, Aero-medical evacuation pilots remain to this day Medical Service Corps officers. 

[patches]

11 hours ago, tafh63 said:

 

One note about medical service corps flyers after the creation of the Army Aviation Branch. While officers in other branches (i.e. infantry, engineers, signal corps, etc.) became "Aviation" Branch officers, Aero-medical evacuation pilots remain to this day Medical Service Corps officers. 

That's a good piece of info, I for one was not aware of that.

[easterneagle87]

46 minutes ago, patches said:

That's a good piece of info, I for one was not aware of that.

 

When I was in, there are 3 ways to become Army Aviators; Aviation branch, Medical Service Corps (Dust Off - Medevac) and the smallest Military Intelligence. 

[Justin B.]

On 9/7/2021 at 11:38 AM, patches said:

That's a good piece of info, I for one was not aware of that.

 

Me either. That raises another question: Back in the days before the aviation branch, if a warrant helicopter pilot was commissioned did they have to then go to a branch officer school? For instance, My Lai hero Hugh Thompson was a WO but then he was commissioned and wore infantry brass.

[easterneagle87]

Yep, it's just another school. Office Basic or OBC and then the Advance Course.