. Hi mikie,   well I don't think I have added these two Bulge ' winter ' scenes before, so just for you, you can try and do a Then & Now between the television scenes and the trees in my stills from the set.   That's a Polish friend Marcin that visited the set.            Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 19 April  2O26.   ..

🤣   I'm sure that's the effect of my charming personality that hits you like a ton of br... wooden mallets! Let's go to the pub and get hammered 😁    

It seems whenever I randomly come across Band of Brothers while channel surfing, it’s always the Bulge episode. I look at it with more interest since learning about the Norman D Landing connection.  mikie

Thank you! Yeah, I was lucky enough to spot them as they dropped, and got a few of them, thankfully. Now if they could just get an original rev war haversack and an 1851 haversack I could nab quick, I’d be set for life, haha

I noticed IMA had a hellacious selection of early IW gear last week, and it all sold. Really nice stuff! Congratulations on adding a valise to your collection!

I nice read….just was in Bitche, France on Saturday..ate a super lunch drove by Maginot Line emplacements.

Very nice to hear. It seemed the veteran's information was correct wrt the award, it was the engraving that threw me. I suspect it is one of those things where a gut-check is in order. Without something from the family it simply becomes a matter of "I like it, don't mind the price and am happy to add it to the collection." As with a lot of what we collect, the story without the validation is what exists to a certain level in our collections.    For some of the things I enjoy adding to my collection, it is not the item itself, but the actual history of the original owner, alleged or not, that is fascinating.  Thanks for providing the citation above.

Signal Corps, Fort Shafter Signal Center, 1924      

That brought back some fun but now painful memories, whilst young and dumb I put three boxes of those through a the barrel at some figure 11s. Really wish I hadn't now and kept them... We live and learn 🤣

. Hey earlymb, at a flea market last week I thought of you it was almost hammered into my brain, I wonder why . . . . . . . .      Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 19 April  2O26.   ..