It was just a guess. I’m not 100% sure that that was him.

Just found this US Spring and Bumper Bolo with original scabbard today. I've heard about them for years but this is the first time seeing one. Very happy!    This will go well with the associated ike jacket I have.    Thanks for looking. 

These where some of the documents that was in is file from the archives which included three other men which are  Lt. (jg) Adelard F. Landry (Service No. 291242)  Lt. (jg) Lowell Glenn Lesh (Service No. 291247)  Lt. (jg) Alton J. Laliberte (Service No. 291226)   I also have a request from the archives for these men’s records and once get them I’ll make a post for each them

This grouping is of a navy pilot named Elmer W. Held its 4 Manuel’s one magazine and the raft survival book with maps and the picture of him and his crew was found on ancestry and all the rest of his information was from the national archives in st.Louis Missouri if anyone would want to see all the paper work that I printed off I can make another post thanks for looking

Just as an addendum to this, I learned a lot from this book. The part that I really found interesting, is that early in the war they didn't have interrupter gear for shooting through the propeller. So what did they do? Deflector plates attached to the propeller so the bullets would be deflected, often time right back in the pilots face. Imagine shooting yourself down !   Once Anthony Fokker perfected the Synchronization Gear and put it in the Fokker Eindecker what happened was the "Fokker Scourge". Pretty interesting.

The gent who donated his great uncle's Pearl Harbor medals and papers served as a bomb loader during the development of the F-117 in the very early 1980s; he's got some interesting stories, plus other's he can't talk about. His ex-took his stuff so he had to get a reissue of medals from St. Louis. He's also an avid model builder and built a nice F-117 and mounted it as if it's over-flying an A-7 aircraft, which is the plane they used as their "cover" plane. He also did a couple years in the Army and should have the Army training ribbon.    Mark sends

So, there you have it. I know that some people kind of turn up their noses at reissued medals, but I've always felt they're just a valid as the originals, because it's the story that matters....ergo, I'm pretty happy to add this to our Pearl Harbor display.   Mark sends

This photo is of the Grandfather (Lyman) unveiling a memorial to his brother. Lyman was rejected from WWII service due to a heart murmur.

Here's Stanley's write up from the U of A Memorial " Stanley Horace Thomas is well-remembered in his hometown of Whitinsville, Massachusetts. Mr. Thomas, a fireman third class on the U.S.S. Arizona, was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.   Whitinsville, an unincorporated village in central Massachusetts within the town of Northbridge, has a beach at Meadow Pond named in memory of Mr. Thomas.   There is also a small brass plaque in his memory outside of the American Legion and a larger marker at the veterans memorial in a park — both in Rockdale, another village in Northbridge.   And then there were the efforts of a childhood friend and World War II veteran, Raymond Rondeau, who reached out to the Blackstone Valley Tribune newspaper in 2019 to help him find out more about the life of Mr. Thomas. Tribune readers responded, and much of the information in this profile was contributed by them and by Mr. Rondeau’s own research.   Mr. Thomas was born November 1, 1920, the youngest of three children of Eugene E. Thomas, a machinist, and Alice Hall Thomas, a homemaker. She died when Stanley was about 14.   He attended Northbridge High School, where he excelled at baseball and was nicknamed “Porker” because he was short and pudgy. Mr. Thomas quit school after the 10th grade, then worked at Whitin Machine Works — one of the world’s largest textile machinery companies.   Mr. Thomas enlisted in the Navy on April 2, 1940 and trained at the Navy station at Newport, Rhode Island. He took multiple tests, scoring highest in English with a 77. He also passed tests for swimming and lifesaving. He first served on a destroyer and then on an amphibious transport dock. He went aboard the Arizona, a battleship, on October 11, 1940.   He was honored at a memorial service at the United Presbyterian Church in Whitinsville. Though his body was never recovered from the Arizona, his name is carved into the family headstone at Pine Grove Cemetery in Northbridge.   Sources: Special thanks to Raymond Rondeau. Other sources include: the Uxbridge (Massachusetts) Times; the Blackstone Valley Tribune; Northbridge Historical Society; Pine Grove Cemetery; Census; Navy muster roll; Northbridge Service Men’s Album; Purple Heart documentation.   This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona."

OK...now for the paperwork that backs this up....there's multiple copies of some of these, but this is the core doco shown here. Notice that when the medals were mailed, there were "no stars available."   Mark sends