Wow that is very nice. Look great!

This is such a shame…..theft is a big deal at the  United States Post Office make the Post Office great again!

Thanks TD. Great info.

Nice shot Roy Boehm. LITS of history on this warrior. Wondering what the insignia is above the eagle on his beret.   

Yes of course Where is the banging my head against the wall emoji! 😆

Small collection that I pulled from the vault the other day.  I can't recall but one of either 52nd or 158th Vol. Badges belong to my great, great uncle Merle Hiner.  I'll have to ask Wailuna to dig out the family records, definitely He was in the 34th Infantry at one point.

Michigan's Military Heritage Museum located at 311 N. Wisner St in Jackson Mi is working on a military round table gathering. Basically a monthly or perhaps quarterly gathering of collectors, authors, historians, etc...        The museum would provide a meeting place, maintain a schedule calendar and host anyone interested in gathering, discussing collecting news, military history, sharing items, and networking.        If anyone here is interested in participating please PM me your information so I can contact you with meeting dates and we can exchange ideas for meeting topics. My thoughts are to hold the meetings on a Saturday afternoon as most local shows are on Sundays in this area. The time would be determined by those interested in attending, and each meeting would last about an hour though anyone wishing to hang around would be welcome.        Thanks for any and all interest.     Scott

I'll be there. Space A4.

I'll have to look into that one, looks like it's not too difficult to get without breaking the bank and a quick look at the few pages available on the internet archive shows a good range of subjects covered! Thanks for the recommendation!

Maybe this will help with your research.   When generally conducting research I 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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