. A few pieces of original early Rubber parts for the WWII Jeep.      Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 02 June  2O26.   ..

. 1944 - 1984 MVCG Liberty Highway Tour.   looking at Johan's Jeep on Sunday I spotted his small thumb screw wing nuts for the hoop bars and told him I had a couple of nicer early original examples at home and said he could have a pair.  I already have a 1943 British army map of Belgium and Bruges waiting to give him on our next meet.   And today whilst sorting out the two thumb screws I had promised him, I found a 1984 plaque from our 1984 MVCG Liberty Highway tour, he remembers affectionately that trip with his father, I hope it will also be a good reminder of the trip with his father.  As we have mentioned previously I took my closed cab 353 GMC on the same 1984 trip and unknowingly photographed my truck in almost the same spot as Johan and his father.      Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 02 June  2O26.   ..  

. Another Salvaged Jeep Part.   While sorting through my salvaged Jeep parts for a couple of pieces a friend needed for a GPW engine rebuild I pulled out this second pattern of leather boot for the accelerator hole in the floorboard, and will be fitting into my Jeep.  The earlier pattern was a rubber boot but as rubber became a hard to acquire commodity as the war progressed in the Pacific the rubber was replaced by leather boots such this and also around the gearstick and the two levers for the low ratio options on the transfer case.     I prefer to refit this original than have a reproduction, life's too short for reproduction.  😂       Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 02 June 2O26.   ..

Did he happen to go the the University of Cincinnati?

Braxton - Sent you a message   Bill

Very much like the mask for the 35/p  

M65 1982 BDU

. Monday at the Longest Yarn.   Monday one of the visitors to the museum was the daughter of Victor Lonnen DFC a wartime Spitfire pilot, we had the pleasure of seeing her father's DFC medal and heard stories of this exploits.  His log book records over 1,000 hours flying time when the average was around 270 hours, it's also recorded he crash landed a Spitfire with a ' hung-up ' bomb which failed to drop and came up through the floor of the Spitfire during the landing but he survived unharmed.   We were all so pleased that his daughter shared his memories and medal with us.            Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 02 June  2O26.   ..

. Johan visit at the Longest Yarn display.   Sunday Johan arrived in his Jeep as we were still working on the displays, he said he liked the Jeep and we had our photo taken beside it, afterward we sat in Johan's Jeep for another photo,  I did the pointing thing ' your going down '  that Tom Cruise did in the NASCAR film ' Days of Thunder ' .  Johans Jeep is original six volt and starts just like a showroom car, he's got that thing earthed perfectly.      I shall be meeting Johan this week for a meal after the rest of his friends arrive.         Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 02 June  2O26.   ..

Looking at the date (1971), I am more convinced this a mask for the HGU-35/P. Looking at: date, color, mounting to the helmet. The HGU-35/P helmet was developed in the late 1970s in order to meet US Navy requirements for a new lighter fixed wing helmet. Experience from the Vietnam conflict had shown that the APH-6 helmet and A-13A oxygen mask combination was not satisfactory any more. It had excessive weight and bulk, poor fit and discomfort, it impaired vision, in was unstable under high "g", and it had a misplaced centre of gravity. The HGU-33/P and HGU-34/P helmets and MBU-14/P oxygen mask had been developed as a short-term solution to the problem. They were lighter than the APH-6/A-13A combination but they did not solve other problems like the misplaced centre of gravity.  The HGU-35/P was developed as an integrated helmet oxygen/communications system. The integral oxygen subsystem featured a new lightweight low-profile mask (Carleton mask), an integral oxygen duct through the helmet, and an external hose with communications wires connecting to the helmet at the rear. This configuration was meant to enhance aircrew performance under high "g" loading due to the reduction in mask weight and elimination of the front "elephant trunk" oxygen hose. The HGU-35/P Operational Test and Evaluation was carried out in Spring 1979 as the final phase in test and evaluation before a production decision. Apparently the helmet did not meet expectations and the helmet was never put into production.