OT Just For Grins, Part 2

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OT Just For Grins, Part 2

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A month ago, crsutton authored a thread (tm.asp?m=3954554) that included a great photo of his WWII sailor dad posing with a young Hawaiian woman during the war.

I was reminded of cr's post during a visit to Miami last week. My stepmother gave me three boxes of momentos that had belonged to my father, who died in late 2013. These included many WWII photos, letters and items I had never before seen.

My dad served in the OSS in England and France during WWII. He was part of a radio interception/triangulation unit that tried to pinpoint enemy (troop and partisan) radio transmissions. The team would then call in another team that would either kill the enemy radio operator or try to flip them as a double agent. To my knowledge, my father wasn't involved in combat.

I'll post two photos that I came across, beginning with this one of my father and an unidentified young woman taken at "Bernard Bennett at Oxford Street" in London, probably in 1943 or 1944.

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Here's my dad, probably taken in the USA around 1943 before deploying to England.

Notice the badge (right word?) on his chest. The bar below the bad reads "Pistol."

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These two items were in one of the boxes. The first is the "badge" worn by my father in the preceeding photo. The second is a cartridge of some kind. I don't know its significance, unfortunately.

When I was a youngster growing up in Miami, my father had a box of WWII mementos in the utility shed. I recall there was a German soldier helmet. I don't know what became of it.


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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

A month ago, crsutton authored a thread (tm.asp?m=3954554) that included a great photo of his WWII sailor dad posing with a young Hawaiian woman during the war.

I was reminded of cr's post during a visit to Miami last week. My stepmother gave me three boxes of momentos that had belonged to my father, who died in late 2013. These included many WWII photos, letters and items I had never before seen.

My dad served in the OSS in England and France during WWII. He was part of a radio interception/triangulation unit that tried to pinpoint enemy (troop and partisan) radio transmissions. The team would then call in another team that would either kill the enemy radio operator or try to flip them as a double agent. To my knowledge, my father wasn't involved in combat.

I'll post two photos that I came across, beginning with this one of my father and an unidentified young woman taken at "Bernard Bennett at Oxford Street" in London, probably in 1943 or 1944.

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There has to be an interesting back story to this one. You did not have a portrait made in those days with a young woman unless there was some sort of "understanding." Unless, of course, it was with a dressed up Hawaiian girl in front of a painted screen. I am thinking that this was a serious girlfriend at the least.
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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

These two items were in one of the boxes. The first is the "badge" worn by my father in the preceeding photo. The second is a cartridge of some kind. I don't know its significance, unfortunately.

When I was a youngster growing up in Miami, my father had a box of WWII mementos in the utility shed. I recall there was a German soldier helmet. I don't know what became of it.


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Looks like a 30.06 cartridge...what does the had stamp say?
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The stamping on the base of the cartridge has "D M" on the top and "4 2" on the bottom.
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It is probably a 30-.06 made in Des Moines Ordnance Plant in 1942.
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And all the munitions from that plant utilized corrosive primers. Put it in a bubble envelope. Nice find!
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