Gentlemen all...thank-you for your service. My father at the beginning of his service in WW2:
Same hat perhaps? One of his anyways.
His shaving kit and a knife he found in the trunk of an old abandoned car he bought for parts. He said the knife was "like" what he carried in the war. As far as ID on the knife this is all we got:
This hat lives up on the wall in my cantina. The stories that it and his shaving kit could tell.
He was a "Leftenant" in the RAF as well as a Capt in the US Army Air Corp. Have somewhere a very cool pic of him wearing both sets of wings as he had received special dispensation to do so and did. He finished the war as a base commander in India with part of his duties being to ride to the hounds with the local aristocracy. Not a bad gig for an old Montana/Oregon cowboy. In 1972 we were flying from NY to London. The stewardess came by handing out pillows and blankets and just making conversation asked my father if he had ever flown across the Atlantic before. He had, more times than the pilot on this flight had. At the pilots invite my father spent most of the flight in the cockpit with the pilot and copilot.
A few years back El Rancho El Tejon donated 200 acres to make one of the newest National Cemeteries. While it was under construction he'd drive down there to check things out. The workers would tell him "Sir we're not open yet." He'd tell them: "I don't need you yet." He was buried there in 2011. My mom joined him there 4 years later.
TY Ray lol
