Naval Landing-Forces, Amphibious, Landlocked, C/B Unit & USCG, Uniforms:
Navy Sailor, Wake Island 1941:
Navy, Blue Coveralls and M2 Jacket, LST Deck Gunner, ‘Unit 7’ Shore Group:
“Amphibious ForceS” LCVP 'Gunner' blue P-2 jacket:
US Navy Seaman assigned to the “Beach Gang”:
Note the Blue background of the helmet’s insignia rather than the often-seen red. The blue is seen with Army Forces as well.
Special Operations, Electrician PO-3, Blue & White Jumper’s Matched Set:
The patch reflects Sailors that had, completed amphibious warfare training and would be assigned to duty with scouts and raiders, naval combat demolition units, beach jumpers, joint assault signal companies, beach battalions (Beach Gangs), and standard landing craft unit crewmen. The patch was used with those serving aboard Specialized Landing Ship, Tank (LST) vessels, Landing Ship, Medium (LSM), Landing Craft, Support (LCS), Attack Cargo Ship (AKA), High-Speed Transport (APD), Landing Ship, Infantry (Large) [LCI(L)], Landing Craft, Tank (LCT), Amphibious Command Ship (LCC), Attack Transport (APA), Landing Ship, Support (Large) [LCS(L)(3)], Landing Ship, Vehicle (LSV), Landing Ship, Dock (LSD), Amphibious Force Flagship (AGC).
*CB / CPO, Heavy Equipment Operator WWII:
*When I was much younger, and in the mid-1970s, I was working around the Aleutians, and in Dutch Harbor, there was a couple of these early D7s, D8s? early dozers, with the overhead beam kind of stuck off to the side of the roads-and, just left there, looking back at it they must have been a beast at the time, and I thought what a waste-but it was the policy of the time, that anything left behind had to be made useless, and so it was, most of Dutch Harbors wooden docks then were in very poor shape, now it’s in large been replaced by new concrete docks.
Sea-Bee Expediently Died Green T-Shirt & Dixi-cup Cap:
Note: with the dyed t-shirt and dixie cup hat, I added the “M1 Rifle prop” Real weapons are not used on the site. But the random gear is just an indication of what may have been used here in this case, a standard web belt to the Garand Rifle, an entrenching tool, medical dressing, a couple of pin-apple grenades, his water bottle (canteen) is of the rare Enamaled type.
