Here’s a made-in-the-Philippines Masonic buckle:     First word should be “Depew” not “Dephew”. This lodge is located in Lancaster, NY.

Bodes, you are mostly correct.  According to the GREAT aznation, his service number 1079023.  It's difficult to read his writing. Thank you, Matt.  You are the best!!

I would think you will need to make one.  Best I remember they are pretty basic 3/4” wide cotton twill or HBT tape like “engineer tape”.

In other news, just caught a physical copy of TM 11-487F, the 1951 Directory of US Army Signal Corps Photographic Equipment.    Means I no longer need to dig out the PDF-copy I have, every time I need to look something up.  There was still a lot of WW2-period camera/darkroom equipment in the inventory by the 1950s, described in this manual. 

Does someone of you know what unit this is ? The seller described it as a "Repro" E Battery 19th Artillery , but I never saw this before. Thanks in advance for your help.

I'm still in the market to replace my current daily driver. I'd love to own a (classic) pick-up.  Alas, the disposable income and savings are going to take a big hit with a new kitchen coming in September.  Better to continue saving up I guess and maybe buy fewer vintage cameras 😅 I spent D-Day / Saturday hiking in the Ardennes, around the rock formations of Sy with a fellow shutterbug.  Unfortunately the storms from the days before had blown over quite a few trees and washed away some sections of the path.  ....it was an adventure, to say the least....

. A few more D-Day week photos.   Stood in the doorway is John Millin the son of the D-Day bagpipe player at Pegasus Bridge, John played the bagpipes at the inaugural opening of the exhibition.  The Gentleman stood to the left of the photograph visited from the ' Standing with Giants ' memorial  in the British sector, an exhibition of hundreds of individual cut-out silhouettes of soldiers at the British Memorial.    The photo of the four ladies, the one on the left is also from the ' Standing with Giants ' memorial, and the three on the right are part of the team that dressed the wooden Jeep we built in the Longest Yarn exhibition.                  Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 09 June  2O26.   ..

Is there anything on him for 1944/45 to confirm him being in the ETO ?

.   . Hi Old Dude, Aerial bridge and Steve,   yes the old infamous suicide doors, not in much use these days . . . . . . . .   A Ford flathead V8 called in at the Longest Yarn display the owner currently has it for sale he said it was a genuine 1940 manufactured, and wanted a negotiable 15,000 for it, and straight from the seller that would be without any auction fees etc.   At the same auction house recently a straight-eight Pontiac came up for auction, I WAS  interested BUT have no garage space available, it started at 15,000 and received no bids !!!!!  It later sold privately and is based around the Ste Mere Eglise area.   No it's not a siren it's the same kind of blackout lamp seen on the wing of a Jeep, however it appears to be a late / post war version with screwed side clips.    Thanks Steve, yes it's a post war model as most production ceased during the war then it's difficult to get any actual war period models. There was a beautiful Nash pick-up truck for sale a couple of years ago in the UK, I believe they were only made about 1946 either for the factory itself or Nash distributors and not sold commercially, sadly since Brexit then that would have had import duties and taxes added to it, without ANY guarantee of getting it registered in France if it didn't conform to French safety standards.  Many people who moved to France , sadly myself included,  had to ship vehicles back to the UK and sell when they were refused registration here.            Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 09 June  2O26.   ..

It’s legit. Nobody makes that color pattern. Great example 👍