It is interesting that half of the men in the Yolo County Association of Veterans of the Mexican War (listed in the document above) served with the 2nd Missouri Cavalry.  Really it should be 2nd Missouri "Cavalry".   This unit was commanded by Sterling Price, future Confederate General, and by all accounts a pompous rump.   General Kearny insisted this unit was the 2nd Missouri Volunteer Infantry.   Price preferred calling them Cavalry because it sounded grander.   Actually they were more like Mounted Infantry.   Anyway they made up part of Kearny's Army of the West and served during the war as garrison troops at Santa Fe, NM.   Many continued west to California after the war to participate in the Gold Rush.      Picture of Price from the Civil War.

Three of the Mountain Howitzers used by the Ordnance Department troops in Mexico are currently at the Frontier Army Museum at Fort Leavenworth, KS.    

Discussion now closed as item is not US militaria

Hi all this liner came with a helmet i just picked up and wanted to ask the brains trust if they had any idea of the unit, based on the remaining partial insignia. its a double stamped Capac

Just curious with that PW stamp, is it bullnose?

Latest aquisition M-1C heat stamp 1179D any idea of the year  

I am looking for regulations considering the use of the various pink clothing items. About the how and when? Are there anywhere that I can find them? Thanks.

Incredible grouping!!

It did, and didn't even tear the upholstery 😇   I do still need to decide where to put it but I have an idea 😊    

Your hood number is very close to my guesstimated hood number, being 2042298. There is no formula to calculate hood numbers, as this depended on which side of the row the painters began, if the jeeps coming out of the factory were parked on the parking lot to be painted with frame numbers ascending or descending and if the jeep failed its final inspection and was sent back inside for repairs.   I have MB II0247 (d.o.d. January 8, 1942) and the closest reference I have is MB II0267. This Willys, that as far as I know doesn't exist anymore, had all its numbers recorded in an army log that survived. This log recorded its hood number as 2042318, so I chose the simple solution and detracted 20 from this number. If someone comes up with proof my chosen number is wrong I will gladly order a new paint stencil.     Another point of interest is that MB II0267 was also delivered on Jan. 8 '42 indicating mine wasn't sent back in for repairs, and its engine number was 111113, which gives me a good indication of a very small range of numbers that my original engine number would have been. I will probably never find an engine within that range, but nice to know anyway 🤭   The 'W' was dropped somewhere between W-2038565 and 2038700, as evidenced by photo's of original, factory-applied blue-grey hood numbers.