World War 2 Memoribilia (Read 1,677 times)

This card is a joke or marole card. I guess.

This book of my Dad's has the cover missing.
First page is marked RESTRICTED

Title: IDENTIFICATION OF AIRCRAFT
FOR
ARMY AIR FORCES
GROUND OBSERVER CORP

My Dad liked collecting thinks for some reason.

duy, you have started a fascinating thread. There were several locations here in Milwaukee that housed German POWs. The Air Reserve station was one location and some of the old buildings are still used.
After the war ended, many of the POWs stayed in Milwaukee and started new lives. They were treated well as prisoners and saw no reason to go back to Germany.
There was one such person I remember when I was a youngster who lived in the house across the street from ours. I became friends with this man and he showed me pictures of is home in Germany. He was in a German uniform and was not married before being captured. He started a family here and I went to school with his grandchildren. He had a flag pole in front of his house and he raised and lowered the Stars and Stripes every day.
He never talked about what he did or where he was captured. I wish I had been a little older because I would have asked a lot of questions.

Two post cards of airman marching and drilling.

When I was at Sembach AB, Germany 1978-82 once or twice a month there was a big swap-meet in the recreation on a Saturday & Sunday. I bought a few coins once with the German Swastika on them. Wish I would have picked up a few more things. My Dad collect coins so I gave them to him as a gift. I have them now in the safe deposit box.

Bullhunter, those old flight calculators were as common in cockpits as chewing gum.

When I was working on Texans, Gooneys, Packets, Boxcars, Expeditors, Mustangs, you know, all those old birds with fans on the front to keep the engine cool, they all had the round flight calculators.

Some planes had a leather or canvas pocket that held a metal or plastic one. The metal ones were better, as the lines and numbers didn't rub off like the plastic ones did.

Chico flight school probably had their name printed on the plastic ones and handed them to every student.

At The SCAB the 13th FIS Aero Club owned an Aeronca Champion and it had a metal one by both seats.

Hard telling how many pilots learned to calculate their flight times and fuel usage with them. They were much easier, and quicker, to use than a slide rule.

Looks like the one you have is in excellent condition.

Jim Too

:god_bless_usa

Another little article my Dad had in his WWII stuff.