I have the same wing on file, but without the bubbles. The wing I am showing has the guide markings to position the needle and the catch.  

Captain Daniel M. McGurl (3rd from left), XO of Norfolk Naval Training Station posed with the 1945 NTS "Bluejackets" baseball team. Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback/tailback Ace Parker who also played two seasons of major league baseball with the Athletics is seated in the front row, far left, is wearing his grays.

This popped up. Seems like everyday you hear about another thing ai is impacting negatively.  https://youtu.be/iUfP6amE7UA?is=48NNLu4J6-QqtlcI

Nice find! I have one also.

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