I saw it too. Wowzer, is right. You wonder if they actually had the division insignia painted on their helmet when in combat. Then, just yester...

I've seen several examples of uniforms with the seahorse patch and I think they have always been on the pocket. The patches on Marion's Ike j...

There were many supporting units within an ARMY that were not assigned to Division. A good example would be Marion's uniform for an Engineer unit. ...

The same for me with "Lost". I never thought of watching it until my daughter borrowed a CD set of the 1st season. My wife and I started watching ea...

It is a great show when they have carry out a special ops mission. Sometimes their mission is not that dangerous and the focus of the episode is on t...

I came across a website where I can set it up to hook it up to my computer. I'd like to see that. Back in the old days before the PC, I work...

It took me over 2 months to get any further word on his condition. This news made me one nasty S.O.B. as a infantry rifleman. I can imagine. ...

When I was first attending college at EMU, I began playing board war games. One of the first serious games I played was Africa Korps. Board games are ...

Yes, that is a great movie. Burgess Meredith caught the essence of Ernie Pyle. And I liked how the movie quoted from him. And Robert Mitchum was gr...

Dogdaddy, Lately, I have seen several Alpini hats and most look like someone took a civilian hat and tried to shape it to look like one of these....

Remember my funny hat? Alpini Hat .................... 6th Alpini Regiment, 2nd Battalion This style hat was worn by the Alpine or M...

Cool. The SP armband is a Navy Shore Patrol or the equivalent of an Army MP. See: ebay armband: Yellow on Black Wonde...

I'm from and still live in Detroit! Cool. During the recent reunion that I attended, I learned that the DI pin for the 339th Infantry Regiment ...

Hi Jeff, Welcome. But you have to get the WW2 terminology correct around here or Marion will pounce on you like Tigre. Actually ...