Over the years I have been told stories such as that the white bars on the U.S. National Insignia on WW2 Aircraft had today's red stripes... had Vietnam War vets insist "They could fire OUR 7.62 in THEIRS, but we could not fire theirs in ours"... same story was perpetuated by WW2 vets in the Pacific RE: 7.7 and .30'06. Just goes to prove that they don't always remember exactly how it was.... although what I have read about York was that he was a real straight-up guy, just too darn innocent; gave a lot of his money away, didn't know he owed taxes, and wound up an IRS slave.