Post WW1 headgear: Army Navy, Air Force and Marines. Click on the link to go to the page: THE COLONEL'S CACHE Post WW1 Headgear Page AW01-1964 dated USAF Mess dress uniform for a Lt Colonel. Named to Ralph A. Cotton who appears to have been a WW2 Bomber pilot with the 489th Bo...
Picture - Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, United States Army Air Service, c.1919 On May 30, he scored his sixth victory. It would be his last for three and a half months. He developed an ear infection in July which almost ended his flying career and grounded him for several weeks. He shot ...
General Jackson’s Pedrail United Kingdom (1915-1918) Prototype – 1 Partially Completed Colonel Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton had been there right at the birth of the British plan for the machines which were to become known as tanks. In 1915, this veteran of Victorian campaigns in India and ...
Resuming his appointment as QMG on his return from England, Robin requested that the three types of cookers (Roberts, Lune Valley and Sykes) be placed in competition during the Takapau Camp and reported on by a Board of Officers from the Army Service, Medical and Veterinary Corps. For the r...
It is interesting to note that the Germans feel that the American soldier has the Constitutional right to refuse to fight. There might have been such an argument made in WWI but in 1950 that loophole was closed when the Congress of the United States established the Uniform Code of Military ...
The so-called 'Hello Girls' were subjected like military nurses to Army regulations, wore uniform and were sworn into the Army. However, as the daughter of one of them - Oleda Christides - explains, this was later denied for it would have given the women the rank of veterans. (link) ...