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Found this at antique shop recently. What do the stampings on bottom mean? Any comments on this cover would be appreciated, I've just started collecting.
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Thanks for the information 👍. I bought this canteen grouping mainly because it had a 1918 canteen cup plus a very nice 1945 dated canteen. Now I can hunt for a vietnam dated canteen and cup!
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Odd fixed bale with blue band and red triangles
manayunkman replied to GeneralCheese's topic in M-1; M-1C & M-2 HELMETS
Soap box derby paint job? - Today
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USMC painted Indian head for the Composite Regt. E Co
6th.MG.BN replied to 6th.MG.BN's topic in M1917 & M1917A1 HELMETS
Kevin, Your kind words are more than I deserve but are appreciated. I'm glad that I was able to help you towards completing your WWI USMC helmet collecting needs. I thought you would make a better caretaker for it than I. Happy that you were also able to secure Chuck's outstanding helmet as it is a one looker. Now there should be a little less competition out there. Haha. Maybe one day you could post a family picture of all your helmets together. Ken -
Hello of France Thank you for your welcome. I live in France. I am doing historical research on the liberation of my region. My interests focus on the USAAF, pipe line Minor and major system. Best regards Aviator
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. Hi G.I. Thanks again, I once read an after-war report that all the Jeeps in Europe were either sold off to other European nations ( Marshall Plan ) or in the Pacific simply abandoned as it was too costly and unnecessary to ship so many unwanted units back to the States. Thanks also for the clips of the assembled B17's / 24's, these I did read were returned to the States as they filled them with returning servicemen, one such B17 crashed in the mountains of Wales as they headed out west from the UK all on board were killed, very sad as they had survived the actual conflict. I have always struggled to quantify my feelings when watching those scenes of lined up aircraft waiting for their demise, almost like a loved pet at the vets. Many words come to mind but to find a singular word being too hard to choose, tragic , sad, harrowing, melancholy, piteous, moving, grievous, and with lamentable scenes of desolation. !!!! Back in the 1980's / 90's one of my Jeeping friends was circuit manager at Thruxton airfield in the UK, we were all aware that it was a wartime airfield but never really grasped discovering what was abandoned or buried in the surrounding land. It wasn't until years after he passed with cancer in 2008 that I read the British airforce at the end of the war flew in all the surviving left-over gliders and burnt them on the airfield, the effort and costs of doing this unexplained. WWII U.S. military vehicles but mainly Jeeps have been a life-long passion for me since my first Jeep at 16 / 17, as I wrote a while ago myself and another local long-time vehicle friend were hugely disappointed about a year ago when we learnt that the son of a French military vehicle dealer had simply scrapped seventy tons of U.S. spares and remains leftover when his father died, we had been visiting the father regularly and after searching through the stocks & mounds buying pieces for our Jeeps and Dodges. Well more pleasant and unpleasant memories revived for me. !!!! That's what comes from a lifetime of experiences, but many happy ones from the International group of friends it gathered for me. Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, March 29 2024. ...
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It's 1970's - 1980's version.
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D-Day Experience Museum and Dead Man’s Corner
respectingthesacrifice replied to USMC_COLLECTOR's topic in MUSEUMS, BATTLEFIELDS, AND MONUMENTS
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D-Day Experience Museum and Dead Man’s Corner
respectingthesacrifice replied to USMC_COLLECTOR's topic in MUSEUMS, BATTLEFIELDS, AND MONUMENTS
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Normandy Visit in 1978
respectingthesacrifice replied to kfields's topic in MUSEUMS, BATTLEFIELDS, AND MONUMENTS
My bad, looking at pictures I took, it seems it’s not there anymore. I was sure it was, at least it was when I was younger… now at what I believe is the same place, there’s a pontoon bridge. -
I don't know the meaning of SOSH but probably some sort of hospital care? So definitely came back to the States early - Oct 11, 1918.
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Thanks for responding. Is it out of the weather?
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@Dirt Detective What manual is this from? Thanks
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Normandy Visit in 1978
respectingthesacrifice replied to kfields's topic in MUSEUMS, BATTLEFIELDS, AND MONUMENTS
Hi this is located in Arromanches, the British Mulberry location. Yes this is still here, although renovated -
8th Infantry Division Infantry School Badge or Unit Insignia
patches replied to Rob K's topic in ARMY (INCLUDING USAAC/AAF)
Well it's certainly vintage, a Single Meyer Shield, pre 1954. It's possible it is related to the division when it was a Training Division a Fort Jackson South Carolina in the Korean War. Maybe a badge worn by Cadre, of the units within the division that gave specific Infantry Branch AIT?? -
CS button
theinsigne replied to theinsigne's topic in (1861-1865) AMERICAN CIVIL WAR - The War Between the States
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CS button
theinsigne replied to theinsigne's topic in (1861-1865) AMERICAN CIVIL WAR - The War Between the States
Thanks for all the responses, here are a few photos with a couple other buttons that was found with it -
general question about cut edge patch manufacturing
patches replied to Magnasound's topic in MISCELLANEOUS / OTHER
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Coin Shop Find ... WW2 Fighter Pilot Purple Heart
blademan replied to illegitimi non carborundum's topic in MEDALS & DECORATIONS
You did fine! Good call on buying the group! -
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Thank you for the response! When I saw all the jeeps in the junk depot, I was getting a little deja vu to the scenes from 1946's The Best Years of Our Lives with the B17s. Going through actual pictures of many of the scrappers and designated areas overseas that ended up with fleets of aircraft and vehicles, one starts to note that many of them were from the same units and ended up at the same "recycling centers" where they were processed into metal refuge. That could possibly be the case here. The ones that did make it into the states were jumbled up in random assortments. You could find things that were in Europe and the Pacific tossed together in the middle of nowhere.
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JR Gaunt Jump Wings
Threewood replied to Threewood's topic in AIRBORNE, GLIDER TROOPS, PARATROOP JUMP WINGS AND BADGES
Thanks for the reply. It's tough finding good pieces with all the fakes out there. -
8th Infantry Division Infantry School Badge or Unit Insignia
Rob K posted a topic in ARMY (INCLUDING USAAC/AAF)
This identifies itself as being 8th Infantry School, but I have not been able to find any information about it or any other examples. Does anyone know if this is a unit insignia, a qualification badge, or what it is and when it was in use? -
8th Infantry Division Infantry School Insignia Inquiry
Rob K posted a topic in DISTINCTIVE UNIT INSIGNIA / UNIT CRESTS
This identifies itself as being 8th Infantry School, but I have not been able to find any information about it or any other examples. Does anyone know if this is a unit insignia, a qualification badge, or what it is and when it was in use?