Thanks Francis the ol Guy that told me about my armory gun was real nice he wasent the usual nothead like a lot of them are. Nothin feels like a 45 I'd say its the Parker of the pistols. Got a nother Qustion got a leather holster goes over your sholder and hooks to your belt US stamped (great for concelded carry in winter) is it a pilot holster? It puts the gun on your left rib cage

USAF-USAAC issue shoulder holsters?
 

Quite possible, if you can post some fotos we could probably verify. I would defer to Col. Bruce Day or any others that served in or closer to a Air Station or other such. It does make sense to me that a shoulder holster would be way more practical for a pilot or seated flight crew member than a hip carry style.

As you mentioned pilots, and again the great 1911 .45 pistol- one of my sisters lived right next to the big Dover USAF complex in DE- when we visited her about 10 years ago, they had the Norden bombsight on display in their museum, plus various aircraft from WW1 up to present. Her neighbor was a recently retired Senior Master Sgt. (Maintenance) and took us on a complete tour- we went into a Cargo-Master, talked with some of the crew- and I learned several new things about the Norden- which the USA was very lucky to have received from the Swedish inventor- if Goring's Luftwaffe bombers had that device- Usually the lead plane of the 4- and 4 "sticks" in a 16 plane formation- carried the Norden-

I asked why logical explanation was- the trailing planes would drop their bombs when the saw the lead plane open the bomb bay doors and drop- Norden's were expensive to make, and to prevent the Germans from getting one intact, in case of a plane crash, the first series had a muzzle port with a detonator, and the bombadier or other crew member would insert the muzzle of his sidearm, fire a round and start the detonator into its cycle- thus destroying the Norden- later I believe they used a pull ring with a timed fuse to detonate--

They also showed the ordnance the planes carried- the great M2 .50 Browning MG in different modes, and both the .38 revolvers and also the 1911 .45's carried by the pilots and crew. I even got to visit the Base armory- I knew the M2 (Ma Deuce) Browning, but as I was never stationed at a MAW Base, didn't have any "hands on" with the electrical firing devices as used on fixed wing aircraft.

The USAAC/ later USAF especially the bombing wings, lost over 75% of their crews before they reached their 25 mission limit. My wife's uncle Jack was a navigator on a B-17 on the Polesti oilfield missions, their plane was hit by flak, and the entire crew parachuted out to end up in a Luftwaffe Stalag for 13 months- Many brave men were lost to Luftwaffe ME-109's and other German aircraft and paid a great price to pave the way for D-Day and the final German surrender 11 months later. Ditto for the Pacific Theater and the air power that finally brought Japan to her knees-

Sorry if I seem to have "run with your ??" here, but Memorial Day is just around the corner, and our Country owes its freedom to our Vets!!

Aircrew, tankers and other seated personnel used shoulder holsters. I wore a shoulder holster for many years with first the S&W Mod 10 in .38 and later the Beretta M-9 in 9mm.

More aircrew in both total numbers and percentage were lost over Germany than all the Marines lost in the Pacific.

The Browning M2 and .50BMG round is a potent and effective weapon. I had the experience of firing one mounted on a HUMVEE during the Panama invasion.

a quad 50 caliber mounted on one of those super charged 283 chev powered armored personel carriers was a viet congs nitemare.... charlie

(run with your) Shoot i'll lesten to Vet's stories all week long My hat off for all of you. My cousin flew FAC cesensa hes got some interesting ones.