Jun 20-2025.  These are Lovely sterling badges.  We have PISTOL and RIFLE from our parents' San Diego ARMY NAVY store -- but none as lovely as yours.  Great find ! Donna Work / San Diego

Jun  20- 2025.  The NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Magazine with  all the EMBLEMS and INSIGNIA has been of great help to us when trying to i.d. various badges etc/.  Donna Wosk, San Diego.  ( I am not at all sure I am responding to the correct post ??)

Jun 20 - 2025.  Donna Wosk in San Diego.  Nice picture of your QUALS.  We still have a selection - but never had very many that were stamped sterling.  Waiting for the requisite x30 posts til we can post pictures of them.  We even had / have ( if I can find them )  SWIMMING / OBSTACLE COURSE / CAVALRY.  Donna

My mother was born in Cornwall, England and enlisted in the Royal Observer Corps on her 18th birthday, during WW2. Mom's title was  "Map Plotter". MI-9 printed escape maps on silk for British air crews.  My mother met Dad at the Royal Operations Room, Truro, Cornwall, during the planning of the D-Day invasion. The U.S Army unit MIS-X also made oiled cloth escape maps for the US Navy. 

Jun 20 - 2025.  Brig, g'afternoon.  Donna Wosk here.  We still have various Rifle / Sharpshooter / Pistol badges.  Almost all of the remaining are pot metal as I recall.  ( I promise not to try and measure them.... ). Once we have the requisite x30 posts, we can post pictures etc....  We still have the( oddly measured ) Au Para Wing,  and I wonder if 2-3/4" is the correct  measurement.  Donna / San Diego

When you say Sea Bee are you saying a US Navy Sea Bee would have made the flag? If so how did they get the writing on it? Would a Japanese American placed the writing on it?

Jun 20- 2025.  I took a look at your OFFICER DRESS EGAs and notice you mention an EGA book.  I wonder if anything from our parents' San Diego ARMY NAVY store is pictured / discussed in the book ? ? ?  If anyone has any info., we will be happy to hear from you.  We still have a set of Cap / Solar Officer Dress EGAs.  We are just waiting for the requisite x30 posts for new people . . .  Thank you, Donna Wosk, San Diego

Jun 20- 2025.  Donna Wosk in San Diego.  We have plenty of enlisted EGAs, if you are still looking.  Once we have x30 posts, we will be able to post photos and offer them for sale.  Yours look great.  Thank you, Donna

I'll add another:  As far as commercial aircraft, the loudest I can ever remember hearing at takeoff was the Concorde.