Bought this very nice 60th Infantry Regiment helmet set at Ciney. Named to a Major Weaver but no officer ASN present. Love the liner! All painted decals, period good under the microscope. Insignia on shell is thickly applied and what remains also looks great under lights.  Anyone have a ww2 roster for the regiment? Or maybe you had this one in your collection before and have some info to share.  The dealer had it on consignment from a Dutch collector, not much info forthcoming.

Exquisite and unique looking we must say.

A few others for reference and discussion:  Variations of 38th Div. MP Co. (Both styles were worn.)    42nd MP Co.    North Carolina    Variations of 26th Div. (Mass.) and 27th Div. (NY)    Iowa, North Dakota and Michigan (Michigan may have been used by the post-WW2 46th Inf. Div.)    40th Infantry/Armored Div. (Post-WW2, the 40th was expanded to include elements from Montana (L) and Idaho (R), which were then added.  

What's the black measured boxes you have your pins displayed on? I REALLY like the look of that. I'm guessing you put them on there to make a reference pic? Smart man! 

. Hi erarlymb   That's a great photo of an early Slat-Grille sadly I have never seen it before ( I shall be passing it on to several friends with Slat-Grilles )   There's a lot of interesting detail in the shot, the clothing the mechanics are wearing first pattern HBT belted jacket on the left, the coat front blue denim set the soldier on the right is wearing. The two mechanics kneeling down washing out the oil filter body in a cut down barrel with handles brazed onto the sides.  On the wing the early bakelite insulators, pity the boxes of the new spark plugs are at an angle it's impossible to see the make.    The Jeep is still without an added wing blackout-out lamp, but it has the taller windscreen, wooden not rubber blocks on the hood, a vacuum wiper fitted to the drivers side and a long-stem mirror support and lots of other interesting detail for Slat-Grille owners.     Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, May 01 2O25.   ….

. Hi mikie,   Thank you, 2007 it only seems like yesterday when I started the thread  . . . . . . . . . . . . .    I normally wake up when my Rooster calls, but he's become a bit unreliable recently so I have replaced him with a female duck, I now wake up at the quack of dawn.  !!!!  😂 😂   Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, May 03 2O25.   ….    

This is the New York Times coverage of the Elsworth papers that he did not release at the time of the first papers. I think all of these knock down any thought that nothing was going on at that time. I have not even played all of the cards. So, my first question still stands...Why? Is all of this some face-saving exercise?   https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/22/us/politics/nuclear-war-risk-1958-us-china.html

In this part of the Pacific at this time I can find nothing to indicate anything other than a pot about to boil over. As to why this gets under played...I have no idea. The shoot downs with the USSR stayed hidden for decades and much of it is still hidden. When you start reading about all of the US air assets sent to and around Taiwan and every shoot down of a Communist Chinese aircraft being from a Taiwanese pilot...maybe that's  true...or maybe not.      I just find it really odd you can find info on USAF and USSR air combat spanning years during the cold war and not one defined contact between the US and China...nothing.   https://nautilus.org/foia-document/air-operations-in-the-taiwan-crisis-of-1958/ 

I have sometimes seen the medal numbers written by hand on the GOs. It is not common but it was done, especially in North Africa in 1943.   I have also seen the numbers sometimes recorded in the service record books of enlisted men, mostly 8th AAF early in the war.     Kurt

Well, I'll be! The USAF didn't lose all of the papers after all, just some of them. Yup! even those accounts are danged warm.     https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/0359meaning/