International Order of Characters buttons 
Like new 20 buttons 
Membership  was limited to ten new members per year (as per 1969 Newspaper article)
Members were mostly Elite Pilots from WWII, Ace Pilots, and Test Pilots 
The only way to get this item was to be a member or known someone



The International Order of Characters is an aviation-oriented educational foundation which traces it’s roots to the grim early days of World War Two in the South Pacific.
It was there that a young USAAF flight surgeon, Captain James E. Crane, came up with the idea of organizing a group of battle- weary American and Allied pilots under his care into a fraternal order to be called the International Order of Characters. Each of the members, upon induction, received a private nickname known only to the other members of the Order. By 1943, call-signs such as “The Sky”, “Spanish John”, “Little Isadore”, “Harry The Horse”, “Society Max” were being heard in the sky over Guadalcanal and the neighboring islands. The “IOC”, which competed with another legendary organization, the “Guadalcanal Rod and Gun Club”, grew to nearly one thousand members before the war moved on towards Japan, and Major Crane was reassigned to military hospitals in the United States.

Notable members


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