There are a wide variety of civilian A-2 jackets designed to look like military issue, with fake contract numbers, false Air Force designation, etc. And they may have non-military features like pen pockets, made from other than goatskin, etc. Excelled makes a number of different civilian knock-offs, as do many of the other official military suppliers.    

Hi:  I might be late in the game here, but I believe I can help.  Your slide stop is 100% correct.  I’ve looked at dozens of images of unaltered late War (12/44- 7/45) Remington Rand pistols to study this detail amongst others.  The earliest pistol I’ve seen with the slide serrations in the notch is February, 1945 when the darker phosphate parkerizing was still the standard at RR.  Pistols produced during that month exhibit  both smooth and serrated notches.  As of March, 1945, the change to the latter appears to have been complete.     Like anything else, that isn’t to say you won’t find a correct example with a smooth notch during any month of production during ‘45 but it would be an outlier.  I’d be more concerned if a 1/45 pistol had a fully serrated notch as I haven’t observed any, but then again,  it’s possible.  “Never say never, but NUG (normally, usually, generally) is better.” Mike

10 year 7640 is "Record Missing" issued between 1927 and 1936.   15 year 7640 - Records end at 5137 issued in 1959.

PSA-   O'Day's obituary said in his final years he was a docent at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento.    For any railroad buffs,  it's well worth a visit if you're ever in Northern CA.

My apologies, I believe it could be a 10 or 15. Ill add a photo.

is it a 10 year or 15 year or?????

Bill any chance you could look up another?  No. 7640  

APO 09633 is a United States military and diplomatic ZIP Code formerly associated with the Air Force Post Office in Wiesbaden, Germany. Mail routed through this code is categorized as overseas military mail (APO AE). (AI inquiry)

. A cool start to a Jeeping day becomes unbearably warm.   So starting out early in the Jeep and wearing a jacket, a couple of hours later the day turns unbelievably warm and the jacket is no longer needed, leaving it unattended in the Jeep is not an option.  For this purpose I have a cable lock,  slide it down the sleeve and out the cuff and padlock it to the Jeep . . . . . .  peace of mind no twenty-seconds and a thief has taken it.    June in Normandy is a thief's paradise open Jeeps everywhere and so many Jeeps covered in clothing and equipment. !!!  Believe me it does happen every year here, shovels and axes are something else to protect, several years ago six Jeeps belonging to friends had the web straps cut and the axes and shovels were gone from the six Jeeps.      Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 22 May  2O26.   ..

. Jeep security ideas.   over the years I have seen various adaptions for security on Jeeps.  I have added the enlargement from a wartime image, it appears to show a padlock-hasp attached to the engine hood and the grille.  It reminds of a Jeep grille which featured a couple of holes drilled in the central bar of the grille and at the time I didn't appreciate what the holes could have been for, now it makes me think that the grille I saw possibly had had a padlock and hasp attached during military service.  My own Jeep has a capability of adding a padlock through the engine hood and a small bracket at the top of the grille just under the hood overhang.         Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 22 May  2O26.   ..