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  • 7 months later...

Hi All.

 

Not many new post here:(

 

I had a back injury during my climbing trip at beginning of the march. For good luck Im not sit at wheel chair. Two month sitting in bed and working from home. I can walk only a few minutes around my kitchen. Better than nothing. But this situation directed me to focus more on my late war USN/USMC pilot. Decided to change some thing, make a trade on my last extra stuff, buy some new small thing and re-organized a display.

 

Here is results:

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I decided to try make some aircraft carrier score board. Get some photo documentation of similiar score board from some Air Groups.

 

Here is supposed score board of VMF 512 from USS Gilbert Islands around his tour from around april 1945. They got only one score made by Tom Liggett but I made more :)

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Make all of these paitings was nice experience...

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Some details of his flight gear included a signal rigger made pouch for very's shells, shark chaser, extra ammo looped holster for .38 S&W revolver and more stuff.

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Rigger made knife pocket in his flight suit (named to VMSB pilot B.F. Kyker), crash bracelet with USN wings and Fulton company survival light with custom painted red lense.

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Late war PK-1 raft with rare laynard for life vest and MKIIIa ploatting board named to VF-15 F6F pilot: Wallace .R Johnson

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Closer pic of A-14 oxygen mask and cockpit escape panel from F6F-3 Hellcat with orginal painting. VF-11 pilot (Tom Stimpson or Jim Swope) is in framed photo.

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Some of personal survival equipment carried in flight suit pockets... blood chit, survival maps, compass, pocket knife, emergency survival kit and Japanese. score decal for plane.

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Second part of survival stuff...

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All kind of signal devices, included a WW2 .38 tracer ammuniton box used by US NAVY pilot. The framed photo is from Naval Aviation News (mid. 1945) with Night Distress Signal presented here.

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Here is something new for me. I never focused on some personal items etc. Try to get all of personal, ID items carried by USN or USMC pilot. Here are some of it...

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Log book, pilot photo, ID wallet and patch belong to John B. Philson, PBY pilot from VPB-61 squadron who saw action at Aleutian Islands Campaign from 1944-1945.

 

The dog tag belong to Gayle D. Kautz VMSB 331 and 245 gunner.

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Also named to John B. Philson Naval Aviator Certificate type II.

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Some of leather tags named to the:

 

Arthur "Bill" Patterson, well know Avenger USMC pilot from VMTB - 134 and 143 stationed with VMF-512 at USS Gilbert Islands in 1945

 

James P. Tiffin - VC-70 USN pilot

 

Thomas J. Manning - VPB-25 crewman in a PBM Mariner

 

I hope you like it. Still some items to find:)

 

The best regards,

Jerry

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Looks great Jerry sorry to hear about your back.

Thanks a lot Mike. I hope somewhere in the future we will se your great collection!

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pararaftanr2

Jerry,

Truly a "museum-quality" display with lots of personal touches. Very well organized and executed. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Regards, Paul

 

 

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Charlie Flick

Jerry:

 

A first class display. I congratulate you, knowing how hard this must be for you to assemble in Europe.

 

Glad to hear that your back is improving. I can see that your recovery time has been well spent.

 

And I really like your M1936 pistol belt with the sewn loops for spare .38 Special ammo. Those are very tough to find.

 

Great stuff.

 

Charlie

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Thanks Paul and Charlie.

 

Yes Charlie, sitting at home for two months and could not do a lot of activities (like in past two years) bring you a lot of new idea to your head and you tried to do something different:)

 

This M1936 pistol belt with ammo loops is in my collection for a years. I also like it very much. Great rigger modified item.

 

Regards,

Jerry

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Pretty groovy Jerry! The creative back drop is what really does it, makes the whole thing pop and come to life. I really like it. You need more down time it appears!

My brother-in law runs a company that makes labels or M3 stickers. They make all those fancy graphix panels for vehicles and all sorts of stuff. Even those peel and stick life size posters you can get of athletes or fantasy creatures or whatever. I pondered the idea of sending him images of ready rooms or flight decks to make posters for walls. By being selective, you have the perfect back drop as if your mannequins are part of the picture but in 3D. Another scenario would be to take a picture you like lets say a TBF crew or VF pilot pending on how many mannequins you have or want, photoshop the individual/s out then assemble your mannequin accordingly to replaced the edited figure. Essential you just reached into the picture and drew the individual out for that depth. Eventually I'm going to send him images of equipment rooms, take down my wall displays, then wall paper my room then re-hang everything. This will give the effect your stepping back in time, of course each wall will be a different representation for variety depending on the theme

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Hi Dustin. Thanks for words!

 

Yes I also think about some photo wallpaper of aircraft carrier deck. The ready room will be also a good choice. But this wallpaper in this size are very very expensive here soo I choose a scrore board. But this is very very good idea.

 

Something like this was made at my Museum exhibition. But this is photo of Japanice bomber planes.

 

Good luck,

Jerry

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An amazing collection Jerry! I love the detail, and know how hard it must be to locate these items! Cheers! Graham

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  • 4 weeks later...

Fantastic stuff Jerry, as always!

 

A question: would be possible seeing a best shot of the funny drawing with the old man with the sickle and the naval pilot?

 

Thanks in advance and still my compliments!

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Thanks a lot Tiger.

 

What about your US NAVY Pilot impression? Ready to flight?

 

Here is better pic of the poster.

 

Regards,

Jerry

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Hello Jerry, nice to hear from you again!

 

Nice sketch, well draw and humorous! Thank for sharing.

 

My pilot is almost ready to take off, thanks, lacks only of a shoulder holster (with loops rigger made)! Actually there's some things that are not proper for the Us Navy pilot: the army parachute and the russe shade "polished" shoes...

 

Best,

Tiger

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  • 2 months later...

Some amazing displays and items there! But only ww2...

 

So, I would like to get up a little jump in the time and show you 50/60s Navy gears... :) And I'm sure that all of us really would like if any other collector would display some other items from this time.

 

Franck

 

First, a VF-84 crew from the only one Indy's Vietnam cruise in 1965.

 

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Lt Richard's gears when he was flying F-4B Phantom over Tonkin Gulf...

 

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His G-1 jacket which was patched for after war vet's meeting, I presume.

 

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The back...

 

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At the end of the 50s, the firsts USN RIO initially were formed by USAF. At less for a part of their training. He was one of them (35th RIO to fly in the Phantom II in 1961). Later, he had noted in one of his logbooks some hours of flight in the USAF recon aircraft F-101 "Voodoo". Then, Lt Richards was a RIO instructor in VF-101 before joining the VF-41 "Black Aces" and his last unit, the VF-84 "Jolly Roger".

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