Very interesting and thank you very much for the response.  I wasn't expecting that but that's very neat and the black hockey puck definitely makes sense in light of what your father was involved with and the location he was at.  

Great job Matt. I posted this before, This is the grave of the man Malone murdered and the paper states his skull was smash in and his body dumped in the Colorado river.

Wow, that's an interesting read. Thanks Matt.

Indeed, much further back . . .

This C2 Vest walked in the door yesterday and is in nice shape, and the zipper still works. This example was worn by Bernard A. Murray, originally from Ironton, OH, who also lived in Fairborn and Springfield.....he served in the Army Air Forces from June 1942 to December, 1945.   Mark sends

Are on this forum? Apparently I joined it sometime in the distant past and can't use my email to register. Do you know of any way to contact the administrator to help me re-register, I don't see a help or contact us option that doesn't require being a member. Thanks 

Right you are , thank you,   They appear not to have ben based in NYC, but rather Upstate New York, this even when it was assigned to the 50th Armored Division,   On 1 April 1975, the regiment was removed from the 50th Armored Division and joined the 42nd Infantry Division (New York National Guard).  

Welcome to the Forum, Rick.  You will like it here.     Looking forward to seeing pics of your new blade.   Charlie

Not Rated. He was PI with the 67th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron at Yokota (1957-1960). They were processing and interpreting the Photint/Elint from all the recce activities in the Far East. Both the 56th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (R/WB-50D *photo is a sampling scoop on a WB-50) and the 6091st Reconnaissance Squadron (RB-50G/Elint) were routinely gathering samples of radioactive fallout from the Soviet nuclear tests at Semipalatinsk for analysis. The CIA U-2s at Atsugi were also involved in sampling.  Japan was downwind from the test site in Kazakhstan. Hence the little black hockey pucks.