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  2. General Apathy

    Norman D. Landing

    . 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. ...
  3. John Parker Jr.

    Help Identify Camillus Sailor's knife

    It's 1970's - 1980's version.
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  5. respectingthesacrifice

    D-Day Experience Museum and Dead Man’s Corner

    An absolutely stunning museum…
  6. respectingthesacrifice

    D-Day Experience Museum and Dead Man’s Corner

    If it may help, here’s what I have about USN helmets
  7. respectingthesacrifice

    Normandy Visit in 1978

    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.
  8. kfields

    What is this shoulder patch?

    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.
  9. kfields

    Normandy Visit in 1978

    Thanks for responding. Is it out of the weather?
  10. nebelwerfer

    Steel box for 60mm Mortar

    @Dirt Detective What manual is this from? Thanks
  11. kfields

    What is this shoulder patch?

    Found him in Volume 23!
  12. respectingthesacrifice

    Normandy Visit in 1978

    Hi this is located in Arromanches, the British Mulberry location. Yes this is still here, although renovated
  13. 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??
  14. theinsigne

    CS button

    Thanks for all the responses, here are a few photos with a couple other buttons that was found with it
  15. WWII OD HBT Base Cloth as we see, a goofed Ports of Embarkation.
  16. blademan

    Coin Shop Find ... WW2 Fighter Pilot Purple Heart

    You did fine! Good call on buying the group!
  17. patches

    A New AF Rank?

    A one found floating around online.
  18. Government Issue

    Norman D. Landing

    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.
  19. Thanks for the reply. It's tough finding good pieces with all the fakes out there.
  20. 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?
  21. 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?
  22. KASTAUFFER

    Coin Shop Find ... WW2 Fighter Pilot Purple Heart

    Very nice!!!
  23. Persian Gulf Command

    JR Gaunt Jump Wings

    Not one I would want in my collection.
  24. gijoeonthego

    Coin Shop Find ... WW2 Fighter Pilot Purple Heart

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  25. Greetings, Well I might have a bit of a stateside division collection rolling along now. Got a group shot together with my tunics, yardlongs and my new copy of United States Army Depot Brigades in World War I. Spoiler alert: I added a new tunic fresh off Baystate's latest update... I now have an 11th Division-shaped hole in my collection! I will upload better, professional photos of that Wolverine (14th Division) officer's coat very soon. Seems like this stateside stuff has hit me all at once! Best Regards, -J.D.
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