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Still dying to see that 2nd Infantry Division Christmas Card from the 70s again. Anyone?

 

 

patches, on 08 Dec 2012 - 12:41 PM, said:snapback.png

There was a standard Christmas card used for years in the late 60s? into the 80s from the 2nd Infantry Division in South Korea, it had a Blue background with the silhouette of a GI at sling arms, hill or hill's in the background, and the silhouette of the 2nd Division patch in one corner, all in White, it said Christmas Greeting from the 2nd Infantry Divsion of something to that effect. I in fact recieved two of these, once my older sister's friend from the gang she hung out with at the candy store, sent one to our family, he went into the Army in early 1975, this being Christmas 1975, and to me personally from a guy I befriended at a bar after I got out of the Army and met in 1983, he went in the following year in 1984 sent this from Korea his first duty station, Christmas 1985, a popular PX purchase I would say.

Does anyone who was in the 2nd Division or in the Army back then remember these?

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Christmas 1931 Submarine Base Pearl Harbor, T.H.

 

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Ward K. Wortman, Capt. USN Commanding

Spanish-American War aboard USS New Orleans. USNA Class of 1900, Navy Cross WWI, passed away in 1934

 

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The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Captain Ward Kenneth Wortman, United States Navy, for distinguished service in the line of his profession as Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. PORTER and the U.S.S. RATHBURNE, engaged in the important, exacting and hazardous duty of patrolling the waters infested with enemy submarines and mines, in escorting and protecting vitally important convoys of troops and supplies through these waters, and in offensive and defensive action, vigorously and unremittingly prosecuted against all forms of enemy naval activity during World War I.
 
Edward E. "Swede" Hazlett, Jr. Executive Officer - Boyhood friend of D.D. Eisenhower and confidant for over 60 years. USNA 1915, WWI service, medically retired (heart attack) in 1939. Tried to get Ike into USNA but he didn't qualify, so he went to West Point, the rest is history.....
 
The Daily Tar Heel, Chapel Hill, N.C.1944
New Commandant of Navy College V-12 Training Program Has Many Interesting Experiences In Varied Naval Career
 
Cmdr. Knew Eisenhower as a Boy
 
By Jim Dillard, USNR
 
Back in 1911 he tried unsuccessfully to persuade his home town friend "Ike" to enter the Naval Academy with him. If his friend had followed his advice and entered Annapolis instead of West Point, he would now, no doubt, be Admiral Dwight W. Eisenhower and he would be invading Japan instead of Germany.
 
Unlike his friend "Ike," Edward E. Hazlett, Jr. entered the Naval Academy in spite of the fact that his home town of Abilene, Kansas, was near an army cavalry post and his first ambition had been to enter the Army and become a cavalyman. After his graduation from St John's Military Academy in Delafield, Wisconsin, Hazlett entered the Naval Academy in 1911 and graduated with the class of 1915. After serving aboard the battleship Minnesota for several months, he was assigned to the USS Leonidas, a surveying ship which was surveying the coasts of Panama and Colombia. However, when the United States entered World War I, the Leonidas was converted into a submarine chaser tender and placed in charge of a squadron of thirty-six submarine chasers. The Leonidas and her squadron was then transferred to Corfu in the Adriatic Sea and assigned the task of bottling up the German submarines which were operating in the Adriatic at that time. Here Cmdr. Hazlett served as the squadron's gunnery officer and as an additional duty, served as commander of a squadron of subchasers assigned to anti-submarine patrol.
 
When the Austrians withdrew from the war about the first of November 1918, Cmdr. Hazlett had one of the most interesting experiences of his career when he was given a small number of inexperienced reservists who had almost no previous sea experience, and assigned the task of reading the surrender and taking command of the Austro-Hungarian battleship Zrinyi. During the next few months, Cmdr. Hazlett and his entire crew were literally forgotten by the American Navy, but these inexperienced men worked hard and performed outstanding service. "It was here," relates Cmdr. Hazlett, "that I gain a real appreciation and deep respect for the work which our reservists perform during wartime."
 
In June of 1919, Cmdr. Hazlett returned to the states and was assigned to the Officers' Submarine School at New London, Connecticut. Upon the completion of his training there, he was given command of a submarine. He continued in command of various submarines until 1925 when he was ordered to the Naval War College for two years of advanced training. In 1927, Cmdr. Hazlett again returned to submarine duty as commanding officer of the USS Barracuda, a 2200-ton submarine which he commanded until he became executive officer of the submarine base at Pearl Harbor. Upon being detached from the submarine base in 1932, Cmdr. Hazlett went aboard the USS Detroit for three years as gunnery officer.
 
In 1935, Cmdr. Hazlett was transferred to Washington to assume duties as submarine personnel director in the Bureau of Personnel, and he continued in that capacity until he was retired on January 1, 1939, because of physical disability. In November 1939, Cmdr. Hazlett retumed to limited active duty at the Naval Academy where he served as head of the Department of English, history and government.
 
Cmdr. Hazlett confides that his first love is submarines, and during the sixteen years that he has spent in the submarine service, he has had many interesting experiences and an equal number of narrow escapes.
 
Cmdr. Hazlett is the author of several articles in the Naval Institute Proceedings and is a contributor to the Encyclopedia Britannica on submarine matters. He is also the author of a book on submarines now awaiting release by the Navy Office of Public Relations.
 
Cmdr. Hazlett is of athletic build and has a rich deep voice which adds emphasis to his commands. His trim military bearing serves as an inspiration for all who associate with him, and his ability as a leader of men is unmistakable.

 

More info here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hazlett and here http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/eehazlett.htm

 

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Nice cards! Did you recently purchase the 514th one? One of my students grandfather's flew with that unit. They had his wonderfully patched A-2 jacket, flight helmet, goggles, oxygen mask, etc, etc.

Paul

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I did. I have a small photo grouping to the 514th, so I thought this would go nicely with a photo or two for display with a model of 'Bloom's Tomb'!

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Merry Christmas to all. Not quite Christmas cards but keeping with the spirit. Christmas dinner USNA 1927-1930. Each booklet contains a description of the Naval action along with the menu.

 

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Christmas program from POW CAMP HOTEN in Mukden Manchuria. From the estate of a USS Canopus sailor captured on Corregidor

 

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VF-3 USS SARATOGA 1939

 

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U.S. NAVAL HOSPITAL (No. 10) AIEA HEIGHTS, T.H. 1944

 

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Tis the Season - Christmas 2018

 

Naval Hospital No. 128 (Pearl Harbor/Aiea Heights) Christmas 1944

With a personal letter from a recovering Sailor to his daughter Patsie

 

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Naval Hospital No. 128 (Pearl Harbor/Aiea Heights) Christmas 1944

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42nd General Hospital in Australia during World War II

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507th Parachute Infantry Regiment - Possibly 1943 but more likely 1944

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Company I 342nd Infantry Regiment 86th Infantry Division - Philippines - 1945

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