Out-of-LIKEs thumbs up👍. I can only imagine how excited that doggie was when the sailor came home. My granddoggies nearly knock me over and lick my face off of they haven’t seen me in over a day.  mikie

This is true. I am wrong about the second run of rockolas. This was incorrect info in War Baby. Possibly late in the last run. As Thorin6 said, somewhere in its journey, just not at the beginning. 

Nice

Found this interesting H&H Insignia ad in the December 1942 issue of The Leatherneck magazine.   

GERMANY. Cpl. Elliot Roy, Brooklyn, N.Y., Pvt. Claude Patton, Ashland, Ky., and T/5 Oscar F. Schnell examine a German anti-tank rifle. Seven feet three inches long, the rifle is reputed to be able to penetrate three inches of armor. Germany, 25 February, 1945. Company B, 638th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Photographer unknown.    

Occasionally you’ll come across a WW2 enlisted uniform with rank stripes on the left sleeve only. I heard that this was a Wartime economy regulation. I like to read old copies of The Leatherneck Magazine. Found the answer to my question there. 

Salvage sailor, thank you for this. Now this gives me a jumping off point, 😆 

A nice aircrew bar.

517th PIR Tab 

Man, you have quite the collection of these sweetheart pillow covers.  I love all the colors and names of places that have since disappeared after the war.  It's astonishes me how vibrant the colors are after all these years, other than the fact I think most never had a pillow in them and were folded up and put away in someones dresser over the years, thus protecting them from the suns effects.  Thank you for showing all of your covers.  I know I enjoyed looking at all of them.  -- Matt