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WOW. I know they existed, but I’m happy to see this. Makes you wonder how many are still around 

Bumping this beautiful piece! Even if nobody knows where it is, people should still take a look

Not a Western of any pattern/model.    Blade is too narrow for a 71,  Western never had a screw-on pommel where the nut appears integral to the pommel.  All their screw-on pommel construction models were pre-WW2, none after.     Most cutlers dropped screw-on pommel construction during the war and never restarted using it after the war was over.  I say most because someone may have kept it up and I'm unaware of them doing so. 

I seem to remember seeing a ocp or multicam acu with a navy rank on it at a trift store a few years ago. I thought it was odd but didn't pay much attention to it.

It was $1,550 which sounds expensive but as a group, it is a pretty good price.  If it was an infantry grouping I wouldn't have flinched.  I did and lost out.   -Ski

Based on Kurt's suggestion and cross checking USN Muster Rolls, this may be the jumper's owner -   B*I*R*C*H*,  Thomas W           Service number     201 79 70         *** He was born in Massachusetts and died in Rhode Island.   From an on-line obit -   'A graduate of Chelsea High School, Tom served with the 1147th Company with the CCCs in Warner, NH and in the Pacific theatre during WWII. As a naval medical corpsman attached to the second marine division, he was at Saipan and the invasion of Okinawa. Later he trained as a pilot until the wars end. He and his late wife, Audrey Peacock Birch raised their family in Damascus, MD. He retired from the Navy as Chief Warrant Officer and moved to Saunderstown in 1976.'   Hope this helps your research.   Larry

No BA-42 batteries are C cell batteries.  I’m not sure if appropriate in WwII but AA batteries are BA-3058. Regards

First picture was on a 1943 menu card