Here is an article about George Mikacevich while he was serving in Childress, Texas. (Abt. 1944)
The caption reads: Jibes turned to admiration for Pvt.
George P. Mikacevich, 327 E. Magnolia ave., left, when his buddies at the
Army Air Forces Bombardier school, Childress, Texas, learned he could embroider
shields for flight caps when metal ones were not obtainable. Mikacevich,
mess company butcher, and Pvt. Carl S. Mayo, mechanic from Hollywood, have
started a class for knitters among the field's hardboiled ground crew men.