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Recent content by Tom Bird

  1. Tom Bird

    Flight jacket identification

    Yep, that's make sens man!
  2. Tom Bird

    Flight jacket identification

    Yeah, that could....any other ideas?
  3. Tom Bird

    Flight jacket identification

    Hi folks! Any ideas for this flight jacket identification?.... Looks like a sort of proto B3??? Original, replica???Thanks for your help & take care of you fellas!
  4. Tom Bird

    Mission: "Saving Private LEE"

    A needle in a haystack..... I am progressing my research step by step
  5. Tom Bird

    Mission: "Saving Private LEE"

    "Only 4.7% error in the names registered in the database" says the document you attached Nathalie. It gives us hope, especially when we know that we only know 5% of the composition of the universe:-)))
  6. Tom Bird

    Mission: "Saving Private LEE"

    Of course, that makes sense! I go on my side to go through all the LEE that are in the database with names, even improbable, starting with J and w. then, indeed, if the registers are very incomplete, it seems difficult to go further. haha! hope brings life;) Thanks to both of you! Keep in touch!
  7. Tom Bird

    Mission: "Saving Private LEE"

    Thank you colonel ;)
  8. Tom Bird

    Mission: "Saving Private LEE"

    VERY INTERESTING PATH ! Well, the Patctname say J.W. LEE So the easiest case is that "JW" had been his full first name, in this case we have our man because there is only one guy over 9,039,840 World War II Army Enlistment Records . If "J.W." are just The initials what could it be? -...
  9. Tom Bird

    Mission: "Saving Private LEE"

    Do you know were he was send/ north africa, Italie, france, england, pacific..... Does he was pilote or other affectation in the Air Corps...I heard that native american works hard to deliver secret message with navajo code at this period...
  10. Tom Bird

    Mission: "Saving Private LEE"

    Name & Tag
  11. Tom Bird

    Mission: "Saving Private LEE"

    Nice to hear you guys! Thx Nathalie for those precisons... Well yes that is a Small/medium A2 Aero size 40 ...Approx. 17 3/4 soulders. ....may I ask you, what details in the Army Enlistment Records push you on the Cherokee way? in the registration there is a "Race" section....LEE was...
  12. Tom Bird

    Mission: "Saving Private LEE"

    Hello everyone, Hope you're Ok on this gloomy days... Well, I am looking for information about a US soldier of the Second World War. I acquired his jacket recently an Aero contract 42-18775- p with his patch name: J.W. LEE....no other indication on the jacket, patches or paint jacket job. I...
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