You should keep that - it is so cool!  And as far as your daughter's college costs go, what would it pay for?  2  text books, perhaps? Hopefully it's not still displayed in your yard.  A bunch of black SUV's with flashing lights might show up.    

I too was in the 41st Infantry in the 2AD (but MANY years after your dad's time). Speaking of the Little Big Horn, I am traveling out to Montana in a few weeks for the big 150th anniversary.   I plan on posting some photos.

Top middle is the 81st Engineer Bn, Aresta.  The insignia in the top right is the 216th Engineer Bn, again from Aresta of Hawaii, taken from a design from the James Sawiki files.  The top left may be an El Salvadorian engineer unit manufactured by NS Meyer in the 1990s.

My dad died when I was seven, so I could never ask him about WWII. He kept a trunk, the old fashioned kind, with brass latches and lock, on the top of a high set of shelves in the garage. I remember him bringing it down once, and going through the contents with me and my brother. He came to a black knife in a sheath and said, I took that off a dead German soldier.” But he never explained that, nor spoke of his experience. Among his things are an “Identification Card”, stating: ”Headquarters Ninetieth Division  Camp Berkeley, Texas” with the red intersecting T-O insignia centered over it; below that is typed his name, rank and serial number. Below that it states: ”A-T Co., 358th Infantry”.   The mystery is that his military portrait shows with wings, that he was in the Army Air Corps, and his separation payers show he was trained as an Ariel Gunner.  I would appreciate it if anyone here could help me reconcile these two descriptions of my dad’s service.

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Welcome aboard ! Nice name you picked there. LOL. I have a small grouping from a Texas vet that was in the 41st Armored Infantry,Co A 1st Bn.  Thank you for your service! There is a lot to look at here and discuss. I lived in Texas for 23  years and never went to the Alamo. I have been to LBH. Gettysburg a few times, I reenacted there many times. A long time ago. I just was at the spring military show there. My GGG Grandfather was on Culps Hill. (Union) 1st E.S. MD. Vols.  Enjoy it here.  Regards David

Are you including the German Civilian Service Units?  The 6970th performed troop construction across USAREUR (barracks renovations, road repairs/refurbishment, and range upgrades) from the late 1940s to the inactivation of the unit in 1995.

The first test with the MBU-12 (before it got the name MBU-12) date back to 1974. The first pre-production ones where fielded in 1976 and around 1979 production started. So it is very well possible that they used MBU-12 soft parts for this mask. (same as they did on the HGU-51/P mask and some others) The 12/P is made out of a soft and an hard part that are bonded together. (makes more sense then handcraft an identical part)   On the side of the mask is a circle with three numbers in it (and some dots) can you send us a close up? That shows the quarter of / and the manufacturing year of the soft-shell.