Veterans sign in!

[dollarbill]

Corporal U.S.Army 2nd of the 505th parachute infantry regiment 82nd Airborn ..All the way and then some !

 

[stephengray]

Stephen Gray .... Firecontrolman - petty officer in Navy .... 1987-93

 

[glass man]

JAMES HERMAN LINDSEY, MY DAD, 1919-2006 STAFF SARGENT 7TH ARMY GIVEN THE PURPLE HEART BY GENERAL GEORGE PATTON FOUGHT FROM AFRICA TO MUNICH, GERMANY 1940-1945 HE WAS MY HERO.
JAMIE

 

[RedGinger]

I'd like to sign in for my Grandfather, who was really like my father. Charles Shoemaker, Army. I miss him every day.

 

[glass man]

THANK YOU STEVE! VERY PROUD OF MY DAD,NOT JUST BECAUSE HE WAS A GREAT SOLDIER,BUT HE WAS ALSO A GREAT DAD!

SORRY TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR GRULING SITUATION. YOU KNOW YOU HAVE OUR PRAYERS!

THE TWO TABLETS WERE MY DAD'S WAR JOURNALS. ONE WAS WRITTEN ABOUT HIS TRIP FROM N.Y. TO CASA BLANCA AND THEN HEARING A SPEECH FROM GEN. PATTON THAT KNEW MY DAD FROM FT.BENNING WHEN DAD WOULD SERVE PATTON COFFE EACH MORNING,BEFORE THE REST OF THE MEN CAME FOR CHOW.POP WAS A MESS SARGENT THEN.LATER TEACHING MARKSMANSHIP,CAUSE HE HAD HUNTED ALL HIS LIFE AND HE WAS GREAT AT IT. IN FACT DAD THOUGHT IT WOULD KEEP HIM FROM GOING OVER SEAS. HE ALSO WAS A DRILL SARGENT OVER A COMPANY OF MEXICANS AT SOME POINT. WELL ENOUGH. SUFFICE IT TO SAY POP DID A LOT OF DIFFERENT JOBS. ONE OF WHICH WAS BEING IN PATTON'S TANK OUTFIT. DAD SAID NOT MANY KNEW IT WAS FIRST CALLED "MECHANIZED CALVERY" BECAUSE PATTON HAD BEEN IN THE HORSE CAVERY AT ONE TIME.

GOT AWAY FROM MY POINT. THE SECOND TABLET IS WRITTEN 10 DAYS AFTER THE WAR. HE COULD NOT KEEP A JOURNAL DURING FIGHTING AS IT COULD FALL INTO ENEMY HANDS AND HE WAS MOST ALWAYS AT THE FRONT WHEREVER IT WAS.

ANY WAY HE DID NOT KNOW IF THEY WERE GOING TO EUROPE OR THE PACIFIC. THEY WERE NOT TOLD. THE SHIP THEY WENT OVER ON WAS A CAPTURED GERMAN SHIP AND DAD SAID IT STILL HAD SWASTICA WALL PAPER.I WISH I HAD ASKED [SO MANY THINGS] BUT THESE TABLETS LOOK GERMAN TO ME,SO I ASSUME THEY CAME FROM THE SHIP. I WAS JUST WORDERING WHAT IT SAYS ON THE COVERS OF THEM. KNOW IT WILL NOT BE REAL ILLUMINATING,BUT WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT IT SAYS ON THEM IF ANY BODY KNOWS![MELINDA?]

THANKS FOR ANY HELP! JAMIE

 

[cordilleran]

"Helmet block sign" is the large text translation. You must reveal the fine script for further revelations.

 

[Just Dig it]

Thanks to all of you ...Your a bunch of keepers =)

 

[riverdiver]

Matt...USN-Hull Technician 2nd Class Petty Officer, Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist (HT2SW)

U.S.S. Briscoe DD-977, Home ported in Norfolk, VA

1983-1990