Form Follows Function

Plaid, Boots and Horns

1940’s Pay Day Water Repellant duck cloth work pants w/ Victory Wreath Doughnut button

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Sawmill worker, Irwinville farms 1935.

Arthur Rothstein.

U.S. Army 14th Cavalry 

Courtesy Badseed

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214squadron:

The photo belongs to Frank Walton and is pictured in Bruce Gamble’s book “Swashbucklers and Black Sheep”. Buy the book here.

Caption in the book: “Boyington visits with veterans and replacements at the pig roast. From left: Doc Reames, Art Little (adjutant), Denmark Groover, Al Johnson, Rufus Chatham, Glenn Bowers, Greg Boyington, Harry Johnson, Rollie Rinaberger, and Gelon Doswell. Rinaberger, still looking ill, was soon readmitted to the hospital because of blood poisoning.”

They look like they’ve had quite a bit to drink at the pig roast. :D

214squadron:

The photo belongs to Frank Walton and is pictured in Bruce Gamble’s book “Swashbucklers and Black Sheep”. Buy the book here.

Caption in the book reads, “When the Black Sheep returned from the Russells in early October, three pilots were dead or missing and two others hospitalized with wounds. The serious expressions reflect the pilots’ ordeal at Munda as well as the recent losses.

Back Row, from left: Begert, Bragdon, Fisher, Matheson, Hill, and Ashmun. Third Row, from left: Magee, Moore, Bourgeois, Tucker, Emrich, and Bolt. Second Row, from left: Mullen, Heier, Ray, Harper, McClurg, and Sims. Front row, from left: Case, Walton, Bailey, Boyington, Reames (the flight surgeon), and Olander.”

Hunters

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Khakis 

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Navy and Green

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greatestgeneration:

The Douglas SBD Dauntless was a naval scout plane and dive bomber that was manufactured by Douglas Aircraft from 1940 through 1944. The SBD (“Scout Bomber Douglas”) was the U.S. Navy’s main carrier-borne scout plane and dive bomber from mid-1940 through mid-1944.