🇺🇸 Corporal Jimmie C. Metcalf's liner.   Born in Georgia on April 13, 1921, he enlisted in the army on January 9, 1941.   Private, then Corporal Metcalf took part in all the division's campaigns with "A" Battery - 20th Field Artillery Battalion. He landed on Utah Beach with the battalion on June 7, 1944, the only one of the 4th Infantry Division's four artillery units not to land on D-Day itself.   Corporal Metcalf lost his liner in Belgium, near Bütgenbach, not far from the Siegfried Line. The 4th Infantry Division was stationed there for several weeks in October 1944.   This liner is unique in that its stencil is painted in three different ways and colors.   Corporal Metcalf was tragically killed in a road accident in 1955, along with one of his sons.      

I have this attentively identified as the 285th Medical Dispensary (Aviation) 1st Commando Group. If anyone has any info as to it being this or not, please post it. The construction of it fits the area that the unit was in during WWII. It was buried in an old-time collection for years and just recently displayed. 

I’m thinking the M1903 stock is from a Remington M1903 made for Lend-Lease (with the NZ markings)…. The US RLB and Ordnance wheel cartouches are from circa 1941-42. Pretty cool.

For those that don't know want Marshall Zhukov looks like. He is wearing his whites, which is unusual for an official photo or art rendering, in 1945 after WW2 ended.  

. Eighty years on  . . . . . . .    Passing a house I spotted that there was some ground-work being done in front of the house but it was the WWII US pickets that caused me to stop and grab a photo.  All in all there were about fifteen pickets / stakes being used to hold  an edge for a concrete pad that was about to be laid.  These pickets / stakes were originally used to hold matting down on the invasion beaches when post D-Day supplies were coming ashore. They were also used on airfields to hold the landing mats down in place.        Driving home from the VE Day meal today I spotted these two containers outside an old building so I pulled over to see if anything WWII or of interest had been thrown into them, sadly they were empty and I must have missed the previous containers that would have been there when the initial clearance was happening.  All I spotted today against the wall of the building were the remnants of some old airfield matting.  It was raining on the windscreen when I shot the photo of the building.        Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, May 11 2O25.    ….    

thanks ski,  yes,  I see what you mean and am leaning towards type 1 as well.

. Hi earlymb & mikie,   In 1978 one of my friends imported an ex US police car blue and white similar to the ones in the photo,  about two years before the ' Blues Brothers ' film came out, we had great times cruising to car shows in it.     Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, May 11 2O25.     ….

Certainly looks like a Type 1 or 2 to me.  (I can't recall if the Type 2 has the flat head)   -Ski

Was not sure where to post this. I want to know why the marines did not have helmet covers? There are some suggestions in the comments.                            https://youtu.be/ywYJ8Ks_MNE?si=rCDRSX1J0Rpimufj

Is that an 03A3?      -Ski