Naval Aviator buckle currently up on the 'bay, named to: BRYAN E. REMER and with a belt.     

Snoopy patch inside a lot of AF Sports Recreation patches offered on FB Mkt.     

You mentioned the initial post that it is common to find knives with mixed parts. How does a mixed knife affect value? I've encountered this one with an L.F.&C. grip and scabbard with an au lion blade.

Great document and write up! My great-grand uncle was actually part of Company B, 194th Tank Battalion (the one that got sent up to Alaska instead of the Philippines)!

On inert Ord it says the early MKI practice grenades were blue.  http://www.inert-ord.net/usa03a/usa1/mk1sp/index.html   The MK1A1 with the pull pin and longer handle was black. ( TM 9-1900  July 3, 1942)

Agree that it’s a reproduction, but I’ve had some original patches with similar brown paper backing. 

Found this for you   https://catalog.archives.gov/id/330391296?objectPage=17

I spent some quality time with a small file cleaning up the demilling melted metal from the op rod channel on the receiver halves this evening. The op rod now slides back and forth.  I also cleaned up the clip latch recess area.  It’s getting there slowly but surely.   

It is authentic.  

Here's a description of the MT's:   "...the Transportation Corps devised...the use of converted Liberty ships as motor transport vessels to carry trucks and drivers to Normandy. The conversion, which was accomplished by U.S. military railway shop battalion detachments, involved ballasting and flooring off the lower hold, so as to provide space for vehicles in four of the hatches; the installation of deck latrines; and the conversion of the fifth hatch into living quarters for the drivers who accompanied each shipment. The average vessel lifted approximately 120 loaded vehicles and 500 men on each outbound voyage. The 14th Port at Southampton took the lead in dispatching MTV's to support the invasion force. At first, vehicles were discharged on the far shore by barge or lighter, using the ship's own gear."  (ref. 1)   "On 22 March 1945, MTV John Stevenson was loaded with 182 vehicles and 31 personnel and was the last such vessel to be loaded by 14th Port, the MTV loadings originally having started on 7 June 1944. This took the total vehicles loaded on MTV's at Southhampton to 240,900 since D-Day, which with general cargo totaled 542,173 deadweight tons and these MTV's also carried 298,988 persons across the channel. There was considerable praise heaped on the black Port Companies which had handled some 97 percent of the MTV loadings - this was from a start on 7 June 1944, without any training how to load these vessels, but within a few weeks had developed a very efficient methodology, including a record loading of three hours with about 120 vehicles."  (ref. 2)   Not all MTV's were Liberty ships.   (ref. 1)  U.S. Army in WWII / The Transportation Corps / Operations Overseas / Chapter VI / The Invasion of Normandy / p. 258   (ref. 2) 14th Major Port US Army: Southampton / Operational History / p. 11