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292nd Engineer Combat Battalion (New Member) - Sir Gator - 07-21-2016
It's definitely an interesting dilemma. When it comes to the medical detachment, I can find no information on the members having any kind of white uniform and it would seem that they wore was pretty much what other members of the unit wore. Here's an informative page about WW2 Hospitals and medical personnel:
The jackets that they wear seem more like lab or work coats and they are not wearing ties as all others are. The trousers seem to be white (although that could be from over exposure due to the white shirts) and the headgear seems to be the same as the other soldiers. It seems as though they are wearing some kind of work uniform so could this be a KP uniform or maybe an Orderly uniform for a hospital? Questions, questions...
Gary 292nd Engineer Combat Battalion (New Member) - rwrich51 - 07-21-2016
This is the other picture of Stephan Long that I have along with his name and address from the back of the photo. My father said that both of the photo's where Stephan Long but when I compare them now they don't look to me to be the same man. I now think he was mistaken about the man holding the handgun and that the photo with the man holding the Thompson is indeed Stephan Long ,the other maybe not....Ralph 292nd Engineer Combat Battalion (New Member) - rwrich51 - 07-21-2016
Oct 1969 while in boot camp we did a week of mess duty in the chow hall before going to the rifle range, I was a server on the chow line, I wore for that week a white jacket and white trousers so I think these men were on k p or mess duty. if the army wore white while on that duty at that time. Of course if so I wonder why they didn't change uniform's for the photo Ralph 292nd Engineer Combat Battalion (New Member) - rwrich51 - 07-21-2016
Three photo's of this man, No ideal of his name....Ralph 292nd Engineer Combat Battalion (New Member) - Sir Gator - 07-21-2016
Ralph, my friend,
Thanks so much for the photo! It puts a face to some of the information that we have and maybe will allow an identification. Any chance to get this uploaded in a higher resolution to assist in this? How about a closeup of the face, also, if possible?
Gary 292nd Engineer Combat Battalion (New Member) - Sir Gator - 07-21-2016
So this is the "Dog Whisperer"! Now we definitely have to figure out who he is.
Gary 292nd Engineer Combat Battalion (New Member) - rwrich51 - 07-21-2016
Gary Lets see if this is any better, I' m very limited in skills at this...Ralph 292nd Engineer Combat Battalion (New Member) - Sir Gator - 07-21-2016
Here's a page from the 100th Infantry Division Pictorial Review showing guys on KP in white early in 1944. A little different with longer "coats", but a significant clue I think. There's also one I found from the 203d General Hospital in Paris in late 1944 showing KP staff posing.
Gary 292nd Engineer Combat Battalion (New Member) - Sir Gator - 07-23-2016
Ralph,
Thanks. I assume you are taking a photo of the photo... any chance you could take as closeup of just the dace as possible. The helmet makes it a difficult ID without a closeup. Alternatively, what kind of resolution does your camera take photos? If it is decent resolution then you could take a photo as closeup as possible of the photo and you could email it to me (I'd message you with the email address if we go this route). I could crop it when I get it.
Thanks for your patience, my friend!
Gary 292nd Engineer Combat Battalion (New Member) - Sterling's daughter - 07-25-2016 Gary, I'm so impressed with the matching you're doing. Who would have thought you'd get this far?
I said earlier that it was a shame that we couldn't see insignia on more of the guys, but now that I'm looking at the photo more closely on my computer, I obviously there's plenty of insignia. Are you narrowing it down any using rank? I can see you found the captain. Does the lieutenant insignia narrow down the other three guys against anyone on your lists?
As for arm patches, I only see five unidentified corporals and six sergeants (luckily, the only one with an arm patch that I can't see clearly is Sterling, so we already have him identified -- I'm pretty sure he was a corporal at the time they shipped out).
Concerning the uniforms, I'd have to agree that those white coats look like the KP uniforms, although I can't make up my mind about their head gear. How odd they didn't change for the photo. As for the khaki semi-formals, Sterling got married in his. I don't have any photos of him in Class As -- but I don't have many photos of him at all. Did the NCOs and enlisted men have Class As when they shipped out? Just curious, it doesn't make any difference for our photos.
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