Here are a few of mine.

I'm usually hesitant about modifications or anything if I don't know the story behind it. Being a sailor myself from a much later era, I changed that thinking a bit when I found this one. I can actually imagine a boatswain on a mid-watch doing this fancywork. He really made it his own, My favorite part is how the correct period issue sheath was cut in half and sewn back together right handed and the retaining strap was cut and pieced back together for the larger handle. It's a correct Camillus and other than a little bit of line, it's all original just rearranged. Anyway, I  really fell for this old guy and thought I'd share. Thank you 

. Then and Now shots Ste Mere Eglise.   As I stood in the road yesterday I had to step back onto the pavement to allow a modern  Jeep to pass me to the junction, I thought it funny that here I stood trying to capture the spot that a Jeep was photographed in 1944 and a modern Jeep filled the scene.  Anyway I got a shot of the scene once the Jeep had cleared the spot, I would imagine that the driver of the modern Jeep was blissfully unaware of the event at this junction 82 years ago.     The other interesting feature in the wartime photograph is the Signal Corps engineer stood on the rear of a Dodge truck with a long pole fixing the wires across the street between the buildings, also note the machine gun fixed to the grille on the front of the Dodge.    The same thing happened to me several years ago when I was stood in the street in Carentan and again then,  a modern Jeep entered the frame and I posted my comparisons back then on the forum.          Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 19 May  2O26.   ..  

These are also a fair reference and were the only reference for a lot of years. I still have both and use them at times.   

I am looking for some more info regarding this US 1944 machete. Was this a common combination, a US machete with a British scabbard? What do the specific markings on the British scabbard mean? Thanks

An awesome day with the Grand daughter to be sure. Here in Michigan we have a propeller from the plane. It is in the Upper Peninsula in the town of Lake Linden which was the home of the radio operator Robert LaMotte. I have visited it many times and it is near the county museum but the museum has never been open so I am uncertain if they have any of LaMotte's items.      Scott

. just heard the news.   just received the news that John Worthing has died, John and Mary Worthing possibly made ninety percent of the canvas products for British owners of wartime military vehicles for maybe forty or fifty years. Their use of American made canvas was a big selling point for their products, in many ways, the style, the feel, the look and its waterproofing qualities.  Their products also became used by continental owners of military vehicles.  John and Mary were early members of the MVCG group from its initial 1970's beginnings.    They sold on the company a couple of years ago due to health and age issues.       Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 19 May  2O26.   ..

Wow that is very nice. Look great!

This is such a shame…..theft is a big deal at the  United States Post Office make the Post Office great again!

Thanks TD. Great info.