I posted a question about it at the above listed site for BOLOMK1 because he was having a hard time getting admitted to the site as a user. I provoked an answer from two sources that both say it is a sweetheart pin that a WWI era soldier would have given his sweetheart. Maybe there will be more answ...

That sling is identical to one I bought for my jungle carbine. Interesting that the British Army issued you a cleaning kit. I don't ever remember one issued to me in the US Army. Instead we had these basecamp cleaning stations with nasty cleaning solvent in a slice of oil drum and some community cle...

A hundred years ago during the holiday season, with prohibition in full sway for the first time during the season of celebration, there is a sudden upswing in wood alcohol poisoning. Death tolls are being counted in all parts of the country and warnings being issued in every newspaper. In a Washingt...

KIA has come a long way in the last quarter century. The first KIA I ever saw was in 1995 when the Ford dealership I had started working as a temporary thing, that became permanent, took KIA on as a subline. There was no bottom to the KIA line. Many of the first SUV KIA's, called the Sportage, didn'...

Ask the question at this site. Lots of collectors of military ephemera. http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/

The NC4 is the largest plane inside the exhibit building.

MERRY CHRISTMAS to all the followers of the site from all the years.....even the ones, the great many, who will never see this greeting. Happy New Year 2020.

The next day was this story.

One of the planes that participated in the Atlantic Crossing was in the newspaper again a hundred years ago. This time it was lost between Galveston and Mobile.

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