Band of Brothers is one on my favorite WWII "movies".  When I first watched it, I saw a close up of a cut down M1 used in boot camp in 1942, when they should have been using either the Model of 1905, or the "new"  M1905/42....certainly not any version of the M1.    I had not seen the WT M1bayonet with the Greek number markings.  That's a great catch.  It's fun to find these gems of incongruities.    There was a long form series a few years back. I think it was called "The World Wars"  The mistake I found there was absolutely laughable.  It shows a young Hitler during WWI admiring a 1903 Springfield which was bad enough, but it also had a 1905 bayonet with a FIBERGLASS scabbard!

Thank you!  

Note the Far East characters and the words national decoration on the bottom of the base bar on the last picture.  Interesting.  

I think a similar was just sold for around $275.

As an incentive and reward for their service, the U.S. federal government granted bounty land to soldiers who fought in the Mexican-American War.  They could get 160 acres, and I suspect the reason the we are seeing a number of 2nd Missouri Cavalry guys, is one of them got land in Yolo County, and then his friends followed.     It would be interesting to see where the land these guys got is...there isn't much in much of Yolo County even today.

I'm putting together a shadow box on a guy who served in the Navy during WW2. Based on the document below, can someone provide an image of the sleeve patch I should look for? Thanks!  

The Fighting 69th (1940) Gung Ho! (1943) Jet Pilot (1957) Dive Bomber (1941)