Could the red hats be a designator for their deck position/job? Now they use colored shirts.
Could the red hats be a designator for their deck position/job? Now they use colored shirts.
Bill Hollinger
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They could be Aviation Ordnancemen. My dad was on a DE and they didn't have coloured hats. He thinks it may have been an individual ship practice.