. Donation from my collection to the SAS museum UK.   About six years ago I donated a government sealed pattern for the 1964 Stay-Bright SAS cap badge to the SAS museum,  I was pleased last week to see it included in a new publication from the SAS archives covering  SAS insignia.           Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 14 April  2O26.   ..  

A few more photos for this brand; civil oil can, the base is very hard to read: G P & F  MILW  WIS, the 1944 1 QT canteen, and the USAF Strata blue painted 1951 Water can with stamping under the handle.  Cheers, Armygas

I believe that is a PT boat patch and it looks like faded out white to me. It does look theatre made 

. Film night last week.   Last week while visiting my daughter and new grandchild Aurelia I sat with my  daughter and her husband and we watched a new film called ' War Machine'  featuring Alan Ritchson and Dennis Quaid, for about three quarters of the film a wounded soldier is moved around on a modern extract litter.  I sat mildly amused as except for being wounded, when I was sixteen I did a mountain rescue course and I won the tee-shirt as I was that body,  moved around on a mountain stretcher and lowered down rock faces etc strapped into the stretcher to prevent flailing arms and legs whilst being lowered.  I pulled up an old photo of me in the stretcher to show my daughter and son-in-law.     Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 14 April  2O26.   ..

ASN of O-259739.

Col. Andrew D. Chaffin, commanding officer of the 34th Engineer Group (Construction) when it was at Fort Lewis wearing the 6th Army SSI. He had a distinguished career in the Pacific during WWII with the 808th Engineer Battalion and the Engineer Section, Southwest Pacific Theatre.  Following his time with the 34th Engineer Group, he was in charge of the Mediterranean Division, Corps of Engineers. (This was an unselected proof for a formal portrait in an envelope I recently purchased).  

Good afternoon. After receiving the grouping in hand, it appears he graduated from the Officer Training Course at Craft Hall, Harvard. His name is Egedius Phillip Knudsen Jr. (quite the name), and I haven't been able to find anything in-country but have found few morning reports stateside. Questioning the various souvenirs that he got and where he got them. It also came with 2 cloth AAF maps about French Indo China (1944).   Thanks, Hayden

Bringing this old thread up from the grave lol! Just got this ike in with this exact patch from the vets daughter this weekend .    

It is remotely possible that this might be one of the very first 1219C2s sent to the Marines in December 1942.  The early Kabar 1219C2s had screw on pommels and red spacers.   The fact that this knife has a screw-on pommel and red spacers is not proof that this is one of those early 1219C2s, only that these are hints/clues that it might be such a unicorn.   That first Union Cutlery batch of 1219C2s had screw on pommels.  Just like the first batch of Camillus 1219C2s shipped out late Jan/early Feb 1943.   The problem with the pommels coming loose/breaking off was quickly identified.    This resulted in the first change order for construction of the 1219C2 - for the pommel to be welded / peened tight.  Supposedly, all the Kabar versions were either scrapped or were sent back to Union Cutlery to be "fixed".    The change was initiated BEFORE Camillus made and shipped their first order but was approved/promulgated  AFTER Camillus' shipment went out the door.  The Camillus screw pommels never got "company fixed" which is why a number of them still exist.