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Texaco Hard Hat

Currency:USD Category:Antiques Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:50.00 - 200.00 USD
Texaco Hard Hat
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Marked on back with name "Bill Basham" 1921-2010, his obituary is quite interesting..."Bill, a retired lieutenant colonel with the U.S. Army National Guard and a petroleum engineer with Texaco Oil Co., passed away in Baton Rouge on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010. He was born May 30, 1921, in Greenville, Texas, spent his formative years in Shreveport and graduated from Byrd High School in 1938. He then went on to earn a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering from LSU after returning from active duty in World War II. He worked throughout the state of Louisiana for Texaco, living in Houma, New Orleans, Shreveport, Lafayette and Baton Rouge, where he retired in 1983. During his tour of active duty in the 559th Field Artillery Battalion from 1942 to 1946, he was a pilot artillery spotter and landed on Utah Beach. He was issued his L-4 plane and joined the advance around the Cherbourg Peninsula and across France. A hedgerow saved his life when "Bed Check Charlie" dropped a bomb just on the other side of the hedgerow where he was sleeping. At the start of the Battle of the Bulge, he flew east to locate the German advance. He found the Germans just over a tree line, and said that he did not know how the tracers that looked like fireworks missed his plane in his hasty 180 degree maneuver. He received the Bronze Star Medal for heroism when on Dec. 19, 1944, near La Roche, Belgium, he volunteered after an emergency landing to stay behind, knowing full well that the enemy might be upon him at any moment. His devotion to duty and his disregard for his own safety overcame any personal feeling that he might otherwise have entertained. As a result of his action, two liaison planes were dismantled and evacuated which otherwise would have been captured or destroyed. He always upheld the highest traditions of the armed forces. Bill continued his military service as a reserve officer and pilot in the U.S. Army National Guard until his retirement in 1970."