This is my first dog tag and rabies tag to a US Marine sentry dog named Stoney who served at the Chu Lai Marine Air Base with MABS-12.  He got his rabies vaccine from the 175th Vet. Det., an Army unit base at Da Nang.  Also includes a dog tag and ega from his handler.  According to Stoney's dog tag it looks like he had the same serial number as his handler.  Fresh out of a local estate sale.

Nice flag! I don’t know anything about flags but I’m sure someone on here can help date it.

I don't think so. Chauchat magazines were made in France. Just like those for the US version. Unless there was special packaging for the US troops.    

. Yes a baking hot day today,  third this week,  first for years . . . . . . .    I spent time looking through my trays of salvaged parts today, I pulled out two Ford marked fly-wheels, so when I pulled out three timing chain covers I felt I needed to know if any of these were Ford as well.  Two had original Ford grey paint under the later green top coats, one I definitely found an ' F ' stamp but it was so lightly stamped I was concerned as to whether the other two covers had been stamped even lighter and gave up in the end. I needed to pack everything away again and it was just too hot.    I sat in the Jeep in the shade of a tree for about an hour and drank a large glass of water listening to the birds all singing around me, peace, calm and tranquility returned again.             Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 25 May  2O26.   ..        

We Remember Private Palmer S. Haraldson served with Charlie Company, First Battalion, 6th Marines. He was killed in action at the battle of Tarawa on 22 November 1943. Haraldson was buried the following day in a long trench inland from Beach Red 3. He was the third of more than forty men laid down in “8th Marines Cemetery #2” – better known as “Cemetery 27” – and the only member of the 6th Marines reported killed in the area. In 1944, the original grave markers were taken down and a large memorial cross was installed in the vicinity. Unfortunately, the memorial was far enough from the burial trench that post-war searches were unable to discover the bodies. Private Haraldson was declared permanently non-recoverable in 1949. Cemetery 27 was finally discovered in 2015, following years of research and an archeological dig led by the non-profit organization History Flight. Remains still wrapped in ponchos, wearing helmets and boondockers, and still in possession of personal effects were discovered in the exact positions where they were buried in 1943. Recovery 2015. Author Clay Bonnyman Evans (whose grandfather, 1Lt. Alexander Bonnyman, was buried in Cemetery 27) was present for the excavation of “Individual #3.” In his book Bones Of My Grandfather, Evans related helping to clean a brass watch found in the grave. “I noticed that ‘PSH’ and ‘C-1-6’ had been scratched into the cover,” he wrote. Dental comparison in the field strongly suggested that Individual #3 was Palmer Sherman Haraldson, and the supposition was officially confirmed on 25 April 2016. Later that year, Palmer Haraldson was returned to his family for burial in Fort Dodge, Iowa

I had his wound information but lost it when the forum recently purged its stored data.....I think he was in a MG unit....Bodes    

Very nice liner. Do you have a nice early fixed bale shell to pop it in?

Roughly 4500 for three medals. 

"There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with."   Admiral William Halsey