SOURCE:  Newspapers.com         Another newspaper articles dated June 1943 was about his promotion to 1st Lt with the 108th Coast Artillery at the Aircraft Artillery Training Center at Camp Edwards, Massachusetts.     Regarding Hale D Richie, there was a newspaper article out of Wichita, KS indicating that he was in the Army Air Corps Reserve and was trained as a Squadron Engineering Officer at Chanute, Illinois.  A later article in 1943 indicated he was with an Engineering Detachment of the Army Air Corps.   So, it kind of looks like at least three of these people listed in the address book were from a variety of military organizations seemingly unrelated to each other.  These people could've just been who the diary owner knew or were friends with.  At least this is a start.                          

A U.S. Navy Sikorski JRS-1 amphibian of Utility Squadron 4 (VJ-4) parked at a Naval Air Station, circa 1942-1943. The plane's forward fuselage is marked 4-J-10.  Date circa 1942.  Source Official U.S. Navy photo 80-G-K-13394     "...Squadron insignia prior to VU-4 being stationed at NAS Oceana..."  from VPNavy website  

Since it’s rusted it’s hard to see but I can feel that it’s punched and not drilled when running my finger against it . I feel like if it was a replaced ega then it would be easy to remove it but it’s stuck on there. I believe it was polished more recently before they added a clear coat to the whole thing 

Hello everyone, I recently purchased a Pennsylvania Military Academy uniform. I don't know much about this uniform. Which branch of the military does it belong to? What are the ranks? Why is there a rope hanging on the right shoulder, and what does it represent? The white brim of the cap is detachable; what does that signify?

Hello everyone, I recently purchased a complete set of M1917 uniforms. I've only recently started collecting WWI US military uniforms, and I'm not very familiar with the meaning of the collar tabs and the badge on the right sleeve. Could someone please help me?

Same 'hands free' (i.e. switchblade) we would keep in the lifeboat/raft and abandon ship kits.  These were tightly controlled and sealed in bags with an inventory & inspection tag that was initialed every quarter when doing routine maintenance on the gear.   They often went missing due to 'sticky fingers' and then there was H*ll to pay at Captain's Mast if you lost one or got caught with one.

Bump for Patch ID   This is a Radar patch, detect and direct is a common phrase for Naval radars (yes, I was a radarman once upon a time in my youth)   I'd really like to know what this one is...

My parents moved to Guam in 1968 to teach in the local schools. I was 4 years old. Over the next seven years, I wandered around the boonies where we lived (old Air Force housing on the former WWII era Harmon Field complex) and other parts of the island with my buddies. We collected old rusted ammo cans, pounds of 30-06/.30 cal/.30 carbine/.50 cal and probably Japanese cases and bullets; frequent live rounds as well. On some parts of the island, at that time, the cases and bullets littered the grasslands. I also found rusted US helmets, parts of frags, a rusted shell of a land mine (!), a tent peg, and other stuff I can't remember. My parents must have been pretty tolerant, as an USAF EOD unit used to visit local schools annually to tell us to not collect the stuff and how dangerous it was; of course, it made us want to find more! I was there in 1972 when Japanese soldier Soichi Yokoi was found alive.   We left Guam in 1975 and I moved around so much after that, that I don't have a single item I found during those years. Years later I joined the US Army, retired from it and here I am collecting again, though mainly WWII US Army infantry unit histories and IRTC booklets. No more land mines.

It's a Schrade 

40th (Sunshine) Division, preferably WWI but also WWII, Camp Harry Jones (in Ariz), 158th Infantry, preferably WWI but also WWII, USS Oklahoma, Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, Mexican Border (1916), Norman Air Technical Training Center (NATTC) Norman, OK, Tinker Field or AFB, Knives, Bayonets, Sweetheart Jewelry, other unique or odd items with interesting stories.