Fixbayonets! Posted January 17, 2011 Share #1 Posted January 17, 2011 I was just looking through a WWII classbook and noticed some the garrison caps. I know it was in style to wear the caps at a jaunty angle but some of these guys took it to the extreme. Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Garandomatic Posted January 18, 2011 Share #6 Posted January 18, 2011 You know that feeling right before your hat falls off? It bothers me a lot more than it must have bothered these guys! I've got a book with some good pictures of sailors. I am convinced that dixie cup hats ONLY fit at a jaunty angle as every single one is so danged small! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capa Posted January 18, 2011 Share #7 Posted January 18, 2011 Great photos! Truly a time when so many were in uniform, a few made the effort to assert their individuality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsakers85 Posted January 18, 2011 Share #8 Posted January 18, 2011 Now that's style! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Dentino Posted January 18, 2011 Share #9 Posted January 18, 2011 Obviously victims of "Pimp my cap" syndrome! :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted July 29, 2022 Share #10 Posted July 29, 2022 Here's one more. in this case place nearly on the back of the head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QED4 Posted July 29, 2022 Share #11 Posted July 29, 2022 What is that on his hat? A cut down Ranger Diamond or something else? I've never seen that before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wake1941 Posted July 29, 2022 Share #12 Posted July 29, 2022 16 minutes ago, QED4 said: What is that on his hat? A cut down Ranger Diamond or something else? I've never seen that before. It’s a clipped ranger diamond Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blacksmith Posted July 29, 2022 Share #13 Posted July 29, 2022 Can’t blame him for wanting to show off a thick head of hair like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devildog34 Posted July 29, 2022 Share #14 Posted July 29, 2022 My grandfather at age 16 on New Zealand just a few weeks after returning from his first combat on Guadalcanal had evidently caught that Jaunty tilt syndrome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDWells Posted July 29, 2022 Share #15 Posted July 29, 2022 On 1/17/2011 at 8:19 PM, Garandomatic said: You know that feeling right before your hat falls off? It bothers me a lot more than it must have bothered these guys! I've got a book with some good pictures of sailors. I am convinced that dixie cup hats ONLY fit at a jaunty angle as every single one is so danged small! You may be right to some degree about the poor fit. I read Jack Lucas', MOH USMC, biography and he talked about getting a new uniform for the ceremony and the photos and everything. One of his biggest comments there was they didn't have a garrison cap that quite fit him. It was one size off, so it fit at an angle. Look at his picture from then. Jaunty angle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted August 7, 2022 Share #16 Posted August 7, 2022 Found two more, regrettably both were KIA in WWII. Gerald D Abbott 36th Armored Infantry, 3rd Armored Division. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted August 7, 2022 Share #17 Posted August 7, 2022 Louis R. Corradeno 745th Tank Battalion 1st Infantry Division attached, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted August 13, 2022 Share #18 Posted August 13, 2022 Pfc. Willard Jenkins wears his PX type cap high and to his right, think at this time he was in the 13th Airborne Division stateside, but in September 1944, Company C, 307th Airborne Engineer Battalion 82nd Airborne Division, and is KIA in Operation Market Garden. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted September 3, 2022 Share #19 Posted September 3, 2022 From a movie Mike Kellin in the 1950 Martin and Lewis Service comedy at War With the Army. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted September 12, 2022 Share #20 Posted September 12, 2022 Kinda Jaunty, an unknown Paratrooper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted September 12, 2022 Share #21 Posted September 12, 2022 And a unknown GI, who's wearing a Crossed Rifles device, probably removed from a screwback Collar Disc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted September 14, 2022 Share #22 Posted September 14, 2022 Alouette Jaunty Alouette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglerunner88 Posted September 14, 2022 Share #23 Posted September 14, 2022 I think the jaunty look was copying the British RAF who seemed to make it a competition who could basically wear their cap on the side of their head without losing it. I swear some of them must have been using hair clips! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted September 17, 2022 Share #24 Posted September 17, 2022 3rd Division GI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixbayonets! Posted September 17, 2022 Author Share #25 Posted September 17, 2022 Thanks for adding to this old thread! Those are some great examples you guys posted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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