I believe and hope this is your guy.  The ring represents the 3rd Engineers Champions of the Hawaiian Division and the dome looking item atop the ring represents a basketball because they were basketball champions in 1937.  The initials on the ring are for Richard Charles Merkle as you'll see more information about him below.                                                       You can download and save the Adobe .pdf files to your computer and/or print them as you wish.  Thanks...Matt                 Ancestry - Richard Charles Merkle .pdf WWII Morning Reports - Richard C Merkle.pdf WWII Pennsylvania Compensation - Richard C Merkle.pdf

. Everyone has a Jeep, perhaps I should be looking for something else     Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 20 April  2O26.   ..

If you share your Great Uncle’s full name and date of birth (service number too if you have it), there are folks on here who may be able to find information on his servce.

Wow! Those are really cool! 

Do you have any connection to Wisconsin? Only ask because I'm going off the assumption that the shield in the middle has the initials (J.Y.) and the only member in the passenger list of the 107th Engineer Train (part of the 32nd) who was on the Tuscania is John J. Young (1895-1980) from Wisconsin. He would survive the sinking only to be wounded by shrapnel in the battle of Chateau Thierry in October 1918. He would also go on to serve in the Tuscania Survivors Association.   Linked here is a collection of articles pertaining to Mr. Young compiled by a site. In it, there is a full recounting of Mr. Young's experiences during that night (on the newspapers dated 1933)     But, again, this is just speculation that's what the shield means (or maybe its something entirely different than initials!)

Some great stuff jonesy, love your flight test badges. I see mine, yours and others all have different color numbers and symbols. I know ID badges all have unique numbers, but I wonder what the different colors and symbols mean. I actually interviewed a man who had been considering taking a job in flight testing for the A-10, but he decided to pass as he said it was very strenuous.    Funny enough, I also just came into another local Fairchild haul, I will not share it all as to keep as on topic as I can but I think it belongs here for the history of the A-10.   - Local newspaper bearing the news of the closure of the Fairchild Plant, talks a good bit about the wind-down of the A-10 contract and when the last ones would be finished - Union agreement booklet, the last one for Fairchild workers in Hagerstown. The last A-10 was finished in March 1984 - A brochure all about Fairchild has a couple of cool photos of our beloved A-10 and has a directory listing out what all the different Fairchild departments are.

For the U.S. Military in WWI, July 30, 1918, is significant for the "baptism of fire" of the 32nd "Red Arrow" Division and continued heavy offensive operations by the 42nd "Rainbow" Division during the Aisne-Marne campaign.   Note:  I believe that's what the arrow symbol represents in the middle of the compass, that is the 32nd "Red Arrow" Division.   I'm not sure what the initials S. F. stand for inside the case of the compass.  Maybe an inspectors mark?  Not sure.

SS Tuscania   The liner Tuscania was delivered to its owners, the Anchor Line, at the beginning of 1915 for the joint service with Cunard from Glasgow to New York via Liverpool. Its maiden voyage on 6 February of that year was on this route, on which it traveled for the rest of its career. In September 1915 it helped rescue passengers for the Greek Line's ship Athini which had caught fire in the Atlantic.   Tuscania first undertook trooping duties in September 1916, carrying Canadian troops from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Liverpool. In August of the following year she brought 1,236 men of the 16th U.S. Engineer Regiment from New York to Liverpool, and two more successful voyages followed.   Tuscania left Hoboken, New Jersey, on her final voyage on 24 January 1918 carrying 2,013 American troops and a crew of 384. She joined Convoy HX-20 at Halifax, Nova Scotia, and proceeded to cross the Atlantic bound for Le Havre. On 5 February the convoy was sighted seven miles north of the Rathilin Island lighthouse by the German Submarine UB-77 under the command of Lt. Cdr. Wilhelm Meyer. At 5:40 p.m he fired two torpedoes at the Tuscania, the first of which missed, the second scoring a direct hit. By 7:00 pm. all the ship's lifeboats had been launched, but approximately 1,350 men remained on board. The convoy's escorting destroyers assisted in removing these but were hampered by the continuing presence of the UB-77 in the area. The Tuscania finally sank at 10:00 p.m., over four hours after being struck, with 230 people lost. (One estimate indicated 201 of these were American troops, the remainder crew members.)   Tuscania was the first ship carrying American troops to be sunk, and public opinion in the USA regarded its loss as an outrage. In 1920 the American Red Cross erected a monument on the Isle of Islay, where many of the victims were buried before their transfer that year to the American War Cemetery at Brookwood [England] or to their homeland. Some Quick Facts       Data on Tuscania:           Gross Tonnage — 14,348 tons          Length —549 ft.; Width — 66.5 ft.          Builder — A. Stephen & Sons, Glasgow          Launch Date — 3 September 1914          Passenger Capacity — 271 in 1st cl.; 246 in 2nd cl.; 1,900 in 3rd cl.          Captain — Peter McLean, OBE          Sunk — 5 February 1918 by UB-77, Lt. Cdr. Wilhelm Meyer, Commander       AEF Units Aboard:           20th Engineers, Companies D,E,F. [Forestry Battalion]          107th Engineer Train          107th Military Police          107th Supply Train          100th, 158th, 263rd Aero Squadrons          Replacement detachments for 32nd Division          Fifty-one casual [replacement] officers

Thanks for the welcome, I appreciate it. My Great Uncle enlisted at Camp Forrest, Tennessee on 12/2/42 and was honorably discharged on 10/15/43. I sent off for his records but they were burned in the fire of 1973. Strike one, everyone who knows anything about him has passed away, Strike two. He died from a cerebral hemorrhage causing paralysis, on December 23, 1944. I don't know where to go from here. Strike three. The only items I have are 3 pictures in his uniform and a USAAF shoulder patch that was his. Have a blessed evening, Jeremiah

Some info on Mr. Tetley from Brown University's Memorial Page: "Egbert Foster Tetley, class of 1916, former English instructor at Brown University, Lieutenant in Co. C., 47th Infantry, was killed in action, during an attack on machine gun nests at Bayoches, France on August 10th, 1918. After Lieutenant Tetley was wounded he lay and smoked a cigarette while waiting for the stretcher bearers. As he was being lifted upon the stretcher, he was hit again, all along the side by machine gun bullets. When asked by one of the men near him what they should do, he told them to “Stick to the last” and died shortly thereafter."