U.S. Army Bicentennial coin question RE: U.S. Mint catalog page
mapleman
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Would anyone care to speculate on what implement is shown in the pic?
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I think it’s a bong
Was that a standard US Govt issued model?
I'm not impressed
Reference; US Mint catalog page.
Some sort of comms apparatus? Appears the soldier has an AN/PRC-77 on his back.
@ricko or @Namvet69 may know.
FRO for sure. Looks like the glass rim has soot or other residue on rim.
I was a Navy Radioman... so did not deal with the ground equipment.... Cheers, RickO
I was reluctant to post this. And I hope I'm wrong. If not the mint goofed big time.
@mapleman Interesting. Cannot find the reference photo on the US Mint’s website. What is the URL for that pic?
Here is the other Army medal.
Nor will you. THE pic. on mints web site is shown above.
There is a coin for all branches including female ww2 pilot service. Ill try again to copy the whole page was only able to get what's shown to copy. Ill need a few hours.
here it is https://catalog.usmint.gov/curated/military-history.html Scroll down the page , hard to miss.
Thanks @mapleman, been on that page and must have scrolled right past. I think I will pose the question of the source/history of the pic to the PR/CS folks at the mint, or least try to.
@Hemispherical
I think that's a fine Idea. If I'm correct, as I believe, it demeans/mocks the Army. Others may but I for one won't criticize the soldiers/Marines in country.
The medal for the "Women Airforce Service Pilots" on the same US Mint webpage shows an airplane with "Pistol Packin Mama" painted on it.
"Pistol Packin' Mama" was a popular song of the 1940's.
By the way, it was one of my grandmother's favorite songs.
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They served courageously.
@mapleman said:
FWIW
This is the caption for the original background photo.
“US Army Patrol in Paddy Field, 1968 A patrol of US soldiers from the 9th Division in a leech infested rice paddy field in the Tan An Delta, Vietnam 1968. | Location: Tan An Delta, Vietnam. (Photo by © Tim Page/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)”
Tim Page, at the time, was a Vietnam War correspondent.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Page_(photographer)>
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“WASP (from left) Frances Green, Margaret Kirchner, Ann Waldner and Blanche Osborn leave their B-17, called Pistol Packin' Mama, during ferry training at Lockbourne Army Air Force base in Ohio. They're carrying their parachutes.
National Archives”
https://www.npr.org/2010/03/09/123773525/female-wwii-pilots-the-original-fly-girls
And the song with Bing and the Andrew Sisters:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b39ALX4neIk
Thanks all, good to read the history of some of the background photos. Would be much easier if the contractor the Mint is using to sell these commemoratives put some details about the background photos.
Or perhaps, courageously served.
@Hemispherical posted
FWIW
This is the caption for the original background photo.
“US Army Patrol in Paddy Field, 1968 A patrol of US soldiers from the 9th Division in a leech infested rice paddy field in the Tan An Delta, Vietnam 1968. | Location: Tan An Delta, Vietnam. (Photo by © Tim Page/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)”
Tim Page, at the time, was a Vietnam War correspondent.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Page_(photographer)>
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Good Bio. on WIKI. Thanks for the info. It's adding up so to speak. I wonder what the mint will have to say?
Looks to me like opium paraphernalia/opium lamp.
Agreed. All above is a good read. @Hemispherical & @willieBoyd2
It sure looks like a lamp to me & the expression on his face indicates he may not have wanted to be photographed.
Hey...Blame it on the Truman the OSS & creative financing
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Called being elevated. Voiced potential concern of the photo and it being a .gov website. We shall see what happens.
Good news. Hope no shtf if msm pick up on it.
Thx.
possible he had just inhaled..