USA boot? + Info about a WWII soldier

[Matteo La Boccia]

Goodmorning. Is this a fragment of a USA boot?
Please do you have some information about soldier Thomas A. Stroncheck (or Stronchter)? serial number 13314114.
Many thanks!

 

[Reanm8er]

Stroncheck, Thomas A./SN 13314114/US Navy 1949-1971/USS Thomas Jefferson/Korean War vet 1952

This is from the research site Fold3 which is connected with Ancestry.com. They had the photocopies of the Navy muster roll but I couldn't
view it without downloading a new browser.

You can go there and login as a guest if have a compatible browser.

USS Thomas Jefferson/President Jackson-class attack transport/serving from 1 May 1942 until 18 July 1955

 

[Mackaydon]

With that service number beginning with '13', he was an enlisted man who enlisted in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia or Wash. DC.
Matteo; glad to see you are back in the hunt.
Don....

 

[SeabeeRon]

Thanks for sharing Matteo! Good to hear from you again!

 

[Matteo La Boccia]

Thanks friends for your welcome. I was stopped for over a year but I hope to return in good health to search again Salerno battlefield....
Do you are sure that Thomas was a post WWII soldier? In our area there are many USA soldiers in 1943....
Again thanks.

 

[DCMatt]

Stroncheck, Thomas A./SN 13314114/US Navy 1949-1971/USS Thomas Jefferson/Korean War vet 1952

USS Thomas Jefferson/President Jackson-class attack transport/serving from 1 May 1942 until 18 July 1955

Thomas Jefferson returned to Algeria and was assigned to TG 81.2, the Transport Group of the Southern Attack Force, for the assault on Salerno. The transport landed her troops on schedule on the beaches in front of Torre di Paestum...

The assault on Salerno was September, 1943.

 

[Matteo La Boccia]

The assault on Salerno was September, 1943.

Thanks. But this Stroncheck, Thomas A./SN 13314114 served also during WWII?

 

[A2coins]

Great info. Cool find

 

[Doubter in MD]

September 1943 is during WW2 my friend. Thanks for posting.
This man was in service during WW2, the Korean War, and Vietnam.

Reanm8ter posted this

"Stroncheck, Thomas A./SN 13314114/US Navy 1949-1971/USS Thomas Jefferson/Korean War vet 1952

This is from the research site Fold3 which is connected with Ancestry.com. They had the photocopies of the Navy muster roll but I couldn't
view it without downloading a new browser."

So, not WWII my friend. Thanks for posting.

 

[nagant]

maybe a pre-bungee gear tie down or keep a rolled poncho secure.

 

[Gene Mean]

Reanm8ter posted this

"Stroncheck, Thomas A./SN 13314114/US Navy 1949-1971/USS Thomas Jefferson/Korean War vet 1952

This is from the research site Fold3 which is connected with Ancestry.com. They had the photocopies of the Navy muster roll but I couldn't
view it without downloading a new browser."

So, not WWII my friend. Thanks for posting.

Yeah my mistake. Misread the dates.

 

[Retired Sarge]

Reminds me of the clasp/buckle from the all weather boot (Over boot). Sort of like these, and yeap the military did issue these style boots.

 

[Reanm8er]

What seaman wouldn't want to have a weekend leave in Italy? Great food from the Med right to your plate, great wine from the sunlit hills, aannnndddd beautiful olive skinned ladies, Huba, Huba! Viva Sophia Lauren! Viva! This was from the era when combat vets got decompressed by easy assignments
prior to returning to CONUS.

 

[Reanm8er]

It was originally christened The President James Garfield.

 

[Matteo La Boccia]

Great informations! Many thanks.

 

[Finder Bear]

Good ID there ffuries. I think I remember the chem gear over boot looking that way as well. That wan the first thing I thought of when I saw the OP

 

[Retired Sarge]

Good ID there ffuries. I think I remember the chem gear over boot looking that way as well. That wan the first thing I thought of when I saw the OP

When I came in the CW boots had the fishtail sole and used a lace, then we upgraded to the boots with the elastic loops over the button. Glad I don't have to wear that stuff anymore.

 

[invent4hir]

All, hope this doesn't muddy the water, but there is a Thomas A. Stroncheck listed on find-a-grave who was a PFC in the USA in Korea. See graphic below & https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/97910786/thomas-a-stroncheck. In the 1940 U.S. Census a 8-year old boy by the same name lives in the household of John Stroncheck. See graphic below & https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQQR-HBG

 

[A2coins]

Welcome back also