The patch for the fictious American National Space Administration , or ANSA, in the 1968 Plant of the Apes,  

Thank you all so much! I had forgotten about the 32nd Div.  I have no connection to Wisconsin, and I have no idea who my f-i-l got this from. It could quite literally have been from anywhere!   I love the info about John Young, but I have a very vague memory of someone telling me what the letters in the shield meant, and that it was a unit/division patch of some kind.  But now, I am sort pulling for John Young!   Hollis

If I can find a way to 3D print one will you trade for a Fort Mills?

Lucky person who bought that storage unit; fantastic pair of items to find 😗😲

An awesome and historic group!  Thank you for sharing his story!

I picked this up about a month ago. It's my first foray into WWI: I've been avoiding it mainly due to the costs, but came across this at a weekend allowance price. The best part of collecting is learning new stuff, often as a result of blind purchases. What I found out was that this was a stateside uniform issues to SATC, Students Army Training Corps, which was apparently the WWI version of ROTC. Feel free to chime in, I'd love to hear more about it.

That is what I thought. Thanks Gents!

Here is some information I located:   His draft card (ancestrydotcom):   His enlistment record (FOLD3):   During Aug 43, he attended (placed on detached service [DS] to) the Ordnance Munitions School at Army Air Base Salt Lake City, Utah (NARA); it appears he was assigned to the Classification Routing Pool (C-RP) at the same base during this time: His Military Occupation Specialty (MOS) is listed as 904, which I believe was a Machine Gun Mechanic.   His 7 Oct 43 pre-discharge transfer from the Classification Routing Pool to the 6th Base Hq and Air Base Squadron at Army Air Base Salt Lake City, Utah (NARA): His rank was a Private First Class (PFC)   His 15 Oct 43 discharge from military service from AAB, SLC, Utah (NARA): His discharge appears to have been honorable and, based on the "Section X," administrative in nature.   You can find the above documents and some other morning reports/documents related to his service here at this NARA link (be advised that some information is not for him): https://catalog.archives.gov/search?page=1&q=14161733   I did not see anything that indicated that he left the USA during his service. I hope this helps.   Dan

@PhilippineBuckles - Nice pick up there.  That's got to be one of the best buckles that's come up on Ebay in the last 18 months.   @jsand - I was the second high bid on that Les Fagan USMC buckle back in 2023.  A WWII era USMC PI buckles is still high on my wants list as well. 

I have no proof, but I think John is correct.  More than likely a prototype or trial piece made by NS Meyers--maybe for a civilian type purchase or airline or private pilot.  As a company selling items, one would expect some level of merchandising of new patterns to sell more product. Maybe there is some data from Heath about these in his archives.   P