Hi Hayden, when doing some research on radar officers I noticed there was another officer that had gone to Harvard for courses before going over to India.  He went over just a little later than Egedius.  While we're at it, can we acknowledge the elephant in the room.  Egedius for a name?  I've never heard of that one before and most likely won't ever again.  It's Greek to me and it is Greek.  You're right it will be nice for the 1945 Morning Reports to finally all be available online.  Everyone will have to re-trace their previously researched items and look their soldiers and airmen up all over again, but we can't look a gift horse in the mouth.   I do usually stick to Newspapers.com (which by the way is the best I've found out of the three major paid subscriptions), a FREE newspaper article website is fultonhistory.com (which I've found is mostly for newspapers on the east coast of the U.S. and sometimes will have articles that you can't find on the paid sites), Ancestry.com (which I get access to for free online through my local library, otherwise it's a paid subscription), the FREE alternative to Ancestry.com would be FamilySearch.org (which contains most everything that Ancestry.com has and occasionally might have a few tidbits more, although less user friendly than Ancestry), Find-A-Grave.com (A free site, which I've found to be extremely helpful when conducting searches on items were you might only be able to see partial names and for their obituaries and photos sometimes), NARA (for Morning Reports and Award Cards/Info, as well as other documents and photographs).   Below, I've copies all the URL's for websites I have used to conduct research from time to time and sometimes more frequently than that in the past.  I have them all save under a folder in Google Chrome called Military Reference.  I believe anyone can copy and paste some or all of these into your own bookmarks folder on Chrome or into your Favorites folder on a Windows machine.   https://catalog.archives.gov/search?q="Award Cards"&f.recordGroupNoCollectionId=64 https://archive.org/details/1945ServiceRibbonGuide/1945 Service Ribbon Guide.jpg http://www.watchcount.com/#serp http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1942_1.html https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/124230 https://dmna.ny.gov/historic/reghist/wwii/infantry/27thInfDiv/Pictorial_History/27thInfDiv_PH_A.htm https://www.511pir.com/ http://accident-report.com/officers/usa/30_35/3035dir.html https://media.defense.gov/2010/Sep/21/2001330256/-1/-1/0/AFD-100921-044.pdf https://www.ww2-airborne.us/units/504/504.html http://www.joebaugher.com/ http://amache.org/ http://www.americanairmuseum.com/ https://www.americanancestors.org/index.aspx http://aafcollection.info/items/list.php http://www.ww2wings.com/ https://www.ww2wings.com/main.shtml http://www.b26.com/ http://www.cdnmilitarycollectors.com/ https://www.nps.gov/wapa/learn/historyculture/guam-armed-forces-casualties.htm http://www.cbi-history.com/part_iii_adg.html https://sites.google.com/view/ccc-uniforms/home https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ https://www.ancestrypaths.com/military-records/civil-war-military-records-colored-troops/ https://www.classicfirearms.com/ http://www.criticalpast.com/ http://hglanham.tripod.com/metalinsignia2/datingclutches.html http://encyclopedia.densho.org/ https://thechaplainkit.com/history/general-military-history/determining-dates-of-historic-military-clothing-equipment/ http://dscdatabase.com/ https://www.etohistory.com/members?utm_source=so&configurationId=7b6d98dd-919d-40d8-b9d5-ada3ce5f9949&actionId=8adaa0b8-8a25-49e1-90ab-e9ac0ad45ef7&cid=5cadfdb9-dbb6-4207-946a-cfd41be71b1d&utm_content=a3bfe6a9-402d-486a-bb76-52ef79df458e&utm_campaign=8e77cc7f-d03d-47e8-8a25-7253a8f21ce4&utm_medium=mail http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp http://www.findagrave.com/ https://www.fdmuseum.org/researchers/digital-archives/ https://firstdivisionmuseum.nmtvault.com/jsp/PsSearchResults.jsp https://www.gutenberg.org/ http://fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html http://www.gaylord.com/ https://jref.com/forums/good-luck-flags-militaria.206/ https://ddr.densho.org/browse/facility/4/ https://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/ngl/ https://griffinmilitaria.com/ http://gunstands.com/index.htm https://valor.militarytimes.com/ http://www.hollingermetaledge.com/ https://www.honorstates.org/ https://www.usmcu.edu/Portals/218/Hough_The Assault on Peleliu.pdf https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/how-to-decode-a-wwii-army-serial-number/ https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/ref/FM/index.html https://archive.org/search.php?query="Charles L. 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I have a Marine Dog Tag that I’d different than my other Marine Dog Tags in font. Has any other seen this font? He served from 1926-1947. 

That's great information.

US Army / "B" Company 15th Transportation Corps Battalion (Aircraft Maintenance & Supply) 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile). RVN. Japanese-made "Penguin".

In the grouping a pair of eyeglasses that were mailed to him had an APO so I'll look that up once I get back home. The officer course he graduated from at Harvard was primarily focusing on electronics and radar technology so that checks out. Hopefully more Morning Reports will be released soon. What sources do you use for research? I usually stick to  the classic trio of Newspapers, Morning Reports, and Ancestry. Sometimes Findagrave has information on them but others its just getting lucky with a unit website or something.   Hayden

I have the same maker and 1968 but its a size extra small, some what tight on me.. may sell it on, bought off ebay a while back, it's pretty mint cond.

So I got this nice set of EGAs. They are about 15/8" (length of anchor). I am just curious, everywhere I seem to look it shows that these are cap devices. However as they are in a set, would indicate Collar. Everywhere I seem to look the collar EGAs were smaller. I am missing something. Please advise.

Hey all,   I bought this jacket in questionable state for not too much money. Now that I have it in hand I'm having a few doubts about whether it is made for a US servicemember or a civilian. Especially the shape and the use of brown plastic buttons on the shoulder straps are throwing me off for some reason.   What are your thoughts on this?   Thanks in advance,   Bruno

welcome to the forum, love the name 😉

Howdy! Born/raised Texan, stuck now in Virginia.  Prior Army combat tanker (M60A3, M1A1, ’86-’94) Quite a few old MN 91/30s, Dragoons, M44 Carbines, SKS, Yugo M54 8mm, some moderns, some hand guns, and a few newly acquired oldies that I’m slowly learning are not what they were said to be.