As with the other Navy caps on this page, presence or absence of gold cords and visor leaves identified both the rank of the wearer and the class of uniform. Junior officers up to 1975 always wore black straps on their caps - both for service and for parade. While those same officers ...
“I was determined not to die,”she said. But when news came months later that her fiancé had also been liberated from POW camp, Margaret thought it only fair to break off the engagement. She retired from the navy with the honorary rank of Lieutenant Commander and was awarded the American...