I just got this in a pile of WW1 vegetable ivory buttons. Hoping someone will chime in with more info on WW1 collar hook & eye fasteners and let us know if this is the right one or not.   

Need help identifying if this is an early P41 or late.  I have many P41s and this one is different. First 5 pictures below are of the item in question. The last 2 pictures are a different P41 that is like all of my others wrt the top button under the collar and embossed US Marine Corps donut buttons.  Does anyone have any data/pictures of the very first contract run (Nov 1941) of P41s?   The HBT fabric is thicker and heavier compared to all my other P41s in my collection the donut buttons have laurel leaves not embossed US Marine Corps the brest pocket is rounded at the bottom corners - some contractors did this and some did it during post war production after P44 was ditched and P41 were brought back the first button under the collar is not centered like others, it is more to the left and under the collar - last two pictures are of a different P41 with a straight line button orientation. the EGA... it has one ribbon, the globe is not solid and the rope shows lines... kinda like a post war stencil / iron on stencil. The breast pocket has double stitching like an early Keystone P41 Production of P41s ended when P51s came out.  Yet, P41s being used into Vietnam have been proven.   I've researched this for hours.... The first P41 contract was in November, 1941. Research is conflicting on one or two ribbon EGAs for the first contract run.  Was it a Navy contract?  The top button could be a Navy contract.    The buttons: US Marine Corps embossing - were they applied then?  The laurel leaf type buttons were applied throughout as suppliers used what they had available.   

And for what it might be worth, additionally to the above, as a matter or record, just breezing through the noted rosters, he also does not show up on Yorktown’s March 1939, June 1939,  September 1941, December 1941, nor March 1942 crew rosters.  But he does show up as transferring from USS Tuscaloosa to USNH Washington on 3 June 1940. Later he is received aboard USS Fletcher from USNRS New York on 30 June 1942 and transferring from same to USNRS Norfolk on 3 September 1942.  We can also see him as CPhm, his warrant rank, aboard USS Ariel as a passenger for transport to assignment to Com8thFleet (in the Mediterranean) on 30 September 1944.   USS Yorktown (CV-5) is something of a specialty of the house.

Here are pics from my post above, I guess that thread has been deleted.

Thank you for your insight!

It’s a shame all those wonderful 1970 era Army/Navy stores in the U.S. are gone.  I can remember barrels full of bayonets, $3 each, barrels of Mausers for $25, racks full of any WWII uniform item you’d ever want.  Actually, I still have the first surplus item I ever purchased at about 10 years old, a Spanish Mauser bayonet.  Most of all I miss the WWII vets I knew.   Clearly, we appreciate and collect military surplus to honor their memory, then we pass it on.

. hi mikie,   darn you spotted it, however what would they be used for, they predate computer hardware . . . . . . . .   Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 20 March  2O26.   …  

Thanks, jmd62. This badge is from prior to 2004, when the “General Accounting Office” changed its name to the “Government Accountability Office”.

"In 1958, Norris enlisted in the Air Force and was given the military occupational specialty of air police, which today is called Air Force security forces. His goal was to have a career in law enforcement.   After a year at an Air Force base in Arizona, Norris deployed to Osan Air Base, South Korea. It was there that he started training in judo on base.   One day while outside the base in the city of Osan, he discovered a dojo studio where Tang Soo So, a Korean martial art similar in some respects to karate, was taught. He took an intense interest in it and worked hard to master it.   March Air Force Base, California, was his last assignment. It was there that he resumed judo training before being honorably discharged in August 1962.   After Air Force service, he continued practicing Tang Soo Do, as well as taekwondo, and eventually became the first Westerner to be awarded an eighth-degree black belt in taekwondo."   And the rest is history.   RIP,  Chuck,  you were the greatest and your legacy will endure as long as the nation  you loved.     https://www.war.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/3705404/actor-chuck-norris-was-in-the-air-force-during-the-cold-war/

Nice one Cobra 6! Nice details.