Found this interesting H&H Insignia ad in the December 1942 issue of The Leatherneck magazine.   

GERMANY. Cpl. Elliot Roy, Brooklyn, N.Y., Pvt. Claude Patton, Ashland, Ky., and T/5 Oscar F. Schnell examine a German anti-tank rifle. Seven feet three inches long, the rifle is reputed to be able to penetrate three inches of armor. Germany, 25 February, 1945. Company B, 638th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Photographer unknown.    

Occasionally you’ll come across a WW2 enlisted uniform with rank stripes on the left sleeve only. I heard that this was a Wartime economy regulation. I like to read old copies of The Leatherneck Magazine. Found the answer to my question there. 

Salvage sailor, thank you for this. Now this gives me a jumping off point, 😆 

A nice aircrew bar.

517th PIR Tab 

Man, you have quite the collection of these sweetheart pillow covers.  I love all the colors and names of places that have since disappeared after the war.  It's astonishes me how vibrant the colors are after all these years, other than the fact I think most never had a pillow in them and were folded up and put away in someones dresser over the years, thus protecting them from the suns effects.  Thank you for showing all of your covers.  I know I enjoyed looking at all of them.  -- Matt

Thanks guys, I got this at a thrift shop type of store here in Reading Pa.  I had it on this  site before but forgot to ask what M style it was.  I saw the lady handing it in but didn’t get a chance to ask about it’s history.  It did have a this WW1 wool coat with it (see pics).  The coat’s label seems period the the war so one would think the tunic would be also. I have added the label pic to the tunic that i forgot in the original post.  The name attached to the tunic Winslow Henkle) doesn’t show up on any WW1 list I found.  Hope those helps with some more IDing.  Thanks             

Just had a question posed that color could actually be dark blue which is possible, and if that is the case it would be for the National Guard Bureau which Bureau which would also be an extraordinary discovery.

I have another question about the RPPC:   Is it indicated on the card itself that it is a picture of a funeral service…?   Is it possible that it may be a photo of an outdoor church service…?   I say this because there are palm trees in the photo— the 29th had leave in some southern French cities…..