The addiction has started

Thank you! I completely forgot about the sweatband photo, I believe it's dated 1969:

Fantastic, I will look forward to reading these posts as you make them. Thank you.   Scott

You did well, The elastic band is a big bonus. What’s the date of the sweatband?

The Michigan State Troops were the predecessor to the Michigan State Police until they officially formed in 1917. By WWII they were like the Michigan Volunteer Defense Force is today. They took on roles around the state that the deployed guard would normally do and they occupied the armories.   Scott

Here are some photos of that Vietnam-era helmet I purchased earlier! I'm super happy with it, especially because this one still retains its camouflage band, which I hear are fairly difficult to find still on a helmet!

Thanks !

. Too much to see, do, take part and enjoy . . . . . . .    So today a b inch of us local vehicle owners assembled at the square in Ste Marie du Mont, when we left there I was asked to lead the group past several of the local places and describe what events happened there.  So we did the Band of Brothers monument near Brecourt manor, from there we went to the Fourcaville German POW camp where 40,000 Germans were retained to help clear all the area and the minefields etc.  Then I led them to the Marmion farm where the famous photograph of paratroopers holding a captured German swastika flag was taken.  As we arrived so did three vehicles from Switzerland and all the occupants dressed up as paratroopers and entered the grounds of the farm to take the image shown below,  as displaying a Swastika flag is illegal in France and several other European countries so they used this other similar flag.    Then this evening  we drove into Ste Mere Eglise and joined the throng of other vehicle owners, re-enactors and serving soldiers of Nato allied countries which had completed parachute drops today. The rain starts and again and gradually people began to disperse.  As I sit here indoors typing this post the noise of the rainfall outside is highly evident indoors.    We have continued driving around as per normal in the rain today with the screen down,  I had two insults thrown at me today, first was a statement that I hadn't been expected to turn-up  this morning at the square in Ste Marie du Mont with the rain.   Then when the Jeep was sat there on display alongside all the others and there were many endearing comments passed to me from various enthusiasts the wife of one of the enthusiasts threw a comment at me which I took as very offensive she suggested I wash the Jeep.   My grandson was born June 7th four years ago,  the family  surname is DAY so if he had been born on the 6th we jokingly said he would be christened Daniel Day which would have abbreviated to D-Day, but as he was born the 7th we now jokingly call him D+1 . . . . . . . . . .                   Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, June 06  2O25. ( 81st anniversary of D-Day 1944 )   ….

Very nice.

Original ww2 issue, US made.