sounds plausable  

At one time I had an extensive collection of military arms that gave way to other interests. The Rock Island Arsenal 03's were always my favorites over the standard Springfield manufacture. This one is special and has been dug out after many years in the vault. The soldier that owned this piece stamped his last name or last initial on the stock, barrel, receiver and a few other places. He also stamped an interesting series of numbers and letters on the opposite side of the stock. This gun is in remarkable "as issued" state. The muted case hardening is clearly seen and the blued surfaces are well above average for an issued rifle. Any help with the ID of the soldier or information on the numbers with the lettering will be greatly appreciated. As an aside, the bore and rifling is very nice and strong. By posting this, and with your help, I can hopefully find more information on the name and numbers . Many thanks Dennis Jackson -     

When I got it in come to find out it is also Austrian marked. So was returned to the CMP after that

Hello there. I believe the following information is covered in Chapter 76, “Men’s Twentieth-Century Dress Blue Uniforms”, starting on page 559.  

I find this discussion of carburetors quite interesting and emotional. I’m all choked up 😁 about it.  mikie

I own this book. Do you possibly know what pages these are on?

I get out that way every now and again, will need to stop by

Emblem I believe is WWII production, it is fairly common to find unfinished small emblems of the era and they were commonly applied to all manner of things. My guess is someone affixed one to a ring they particularly liked, or a custom piece of jewelry. For sure, it was not a mass-produced piece and it was well-worn and well-loved.

Hello, I would say that this is all late WWII? Any markings inside the steel shell? Maybe better photos of the inside of the shell and the swivel bales would help some of the more knowledgeable members to offer comments.

. As I said from the beginning ' opinions are like backsides we all have one '   it doesn't worry me that we have differences of opinions as long as we don't fall out over these differences.  I am just saying that everything I have Jeep wise was gathered together mostly in the 1970's, however forum member ESCHT  ( Kevin ) will attest that I did buy some original parts from him, again none of this cache he found had reproduction or fake parts, I can't recall the year. it has been mentioned here in previous posts.     A couple more 1970's photographs of the stash of Jeeps I found, I then found the guy who ' owned ' this stash,  I don't believe he ever restored any of them,  shortly after I moved from the area so never knew what became of them. In hindsight I would have loved to buy one of the GP grille's as a wall hanger  but that was never really done in the 1970's.    another little anecdote to throw into this post which I believe I have mentioned some time before, 1979 / 1980 I had been out with my wife on the Saturday night for a Chinese meal, during the night I started to experience acute pain ( not a cute pain but acute pain, before mikie makes a pun about it ). I lay awake most of the night and around 06.30 told my wife that I would need to see a doctor, she tried to pass it off as something from the meal had upset my intestine.  Well eventually she summoned a visit from my doctor, he diagnosed appendicitis and said it wasn't severe enough at that time to go to hospital, he said lay at home in bed and watch television until it became worse and needed hospital attention.  Unbeknown to the doctor and my wife I had an arrangement with a Jeeping friend to pick me up at 09.00 and we were going out into the country searching for Jeeps.   By mid-day the pain had become intense and I asked him to call it a day and head for home and a hospital .  We found several old vehicles even a British light armoured car but no Jeeps.            Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 24 May  2O26.   ..