Derailed (A bit how I'm feeling lately.)

Officers with musette bags in front of a derailed troop train in Piqua, Ohio. May 21, 1945.

One man killed, T/Sgt Jerrell H. Adamson of Oklahoma. He had successfully flown 35 missions over Europe and was on his way home.

Sergeant Pilots, crazy uniforms...

If you notice the guy in the middle, he's wearing an officer's jacket with S/Sgt. stripes sewn on. Also note the officer's gabardine cap with enlisted device. The caption says that he bought them in the States anticipating they'd give him a commission when they got to the Middle East, but no such luck. He took it upon himself to sew them on in defiance (and possibly protest) of regulations. There were a lot of Sgt. pilots in the 316th Troop Carrier Group that flew C-47's and gliders as enlisted pilots.