Didn't some personnel of the 326th AB Med Co eventually end up in the PTO, I could be miss remembering though. An observation though that makes more sense with Tonomachi comment, I once had a shirt and cut down 4 pocket both patched with 11AB ssi, that was most likely worn during occupational period and post war. The jacket had wings very similar to this too.

From the OS to the EW... Reference  -->> COUNTERMEASURES AN/WLR-1

Hey Thrifter. I’m not a flag collector at all but do like the look of this one. What are you looking to get for it? Any interest in trades? Paul

Feel free to post it wherever! Just please @ me. It came from Robert Wilson at Tarbridge Military Collectibles.

Hello   Very interesting. Yes he was certainly still in hospital until september 1944 and doesn't participate to the Brittany campaing.   Thanks David

The end of slavery and building Ford cars is perhaps more real than you know. When the war ended there wasn't much of a need for the Underground Railroad to move slaves "north" to freedom.           The problem is, north to freedom wasn't necessarily Ohio, Indiana, illinois, Michigan. In the case of Michigan, slaves were passed through to Canada via Detroit and Port Huron. There was a real "not in my backyard" mentality here and the black population was quite small, even in Detroit. There was a tiny population in an area called Black Bottom. Black Codes were enacted in the north and racism was rampant, it just isn't taught in schools or talked about much, but one can Google the laws which were very much like the Jim Crow laws of the South.           The black population of Detroit grew in 1917 when Henry Ford needed workers to back fill his plants due to the immigrants and white citizens leaving for service in WWI and Ford receiving many government contracts. Can't say what the country would have looked like has secession been allowed to happen, but time and again it can be shown that while slavery itself was not the law in all states, racism, bigotry, and fear of blacks moving in was certainly not just a Southern thing.           Getting back to the original topic of great generals etc... General Patrick Cleburne said it best in the following two statements:    "It is said slavery is all we are fighting for, and if we give it up we give up all. Even if this were true, which we deny, slavery is not all our enemies are fighting for. It is merely the pretense to establish sectional superiority and a more centralized form of government, and to deprive us of our rights and liberties."   and: "Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the War; will be impressed by all the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision."   Scott

WHAT A GREAT THREAD!!     Should Lincoln just have let the succeeding states go?   If he had, in 3 years, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years - would there be peace between the north and south?  Would the south continue to demand that escaped slaves be returned?  Would it be wise for Lincoln to form what could be a state hostile to Washington on its southern border and sharing the same land mass? I don't have answers, obviously.    But would that have been wiser and less bloody?  If not the civil war, how and when would slavery die when there was so much money invested in it.  To own the workforce is the capitalist's dream.  The slaves would have gone from picking cotton to building Ford cars?  

It’s obviously “wrong “, but I have to wonder why whoever had the ability to do such a nice job of stamping a # wouldn’t also  know it needs to be at 6 o’clock.  Looks to be an older planchet, but in addition to the numbering, the manner the brooch is attached to the ribbon  is not typical.  This key  medal of the group being highly suspect makes me question whether or not  the other pieces of the group (which individually appear original) actually are to one individual.    

What model boots are those, also very nice display.

As President alone he did not have the power to compel the states.  His power only extended to areas that were or would come under military governance.  A little  different but along the same lineas as the decision that if slaves were legally enemy property, then they could be taken in US military lines and treated as free.    I'll add that Lincoln was also a pragmatist, both in what would generate support at home and abroad, and in what could be physically accomplished.  Timing is super important.