here's a forum discussion about it.    

the M18 smoke canisters from the 40's and 50's were in an aluminum tin, making these at best Vietnam but probably later.

Hi everybody, I am from the Netherlands and have been researching and reenacting the 7th and 3rd Armoured for a while now. Recently I mixed this hobby with an older activity namely drawing.  I looked into it and found out that actual war artist did exist. And so I am looking into portrain an official US war artist correspond. How where their lives, what was their status among regular soldiers, what would they wear and for rank, unit and other signs and batches would they have? 

that pilots bag is really cool!

thanks for the info, I thought the 45th did for some reason.

Good day everyone, recently I was lucky enough to get this beautiful visor that is terribly similar to the one I saw on this photo of Lieutenant General Hobart R. Gay. Now the question is WHY this general was using a so different kind of decorations on his blue dress army general visor? there was a sort of "different" regulation during 1953 to 1955, maybe experimental phase? (AR about blue dress army uniforms changed just in 1953. Maybe we could find the answer in his history:   In September 1954 General Gay was made commander of U.S. Fifth Army in Chicago, Illinois. He was nominated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in October 1954 for promotion to Lieutenant General (temporary).   Hobart R. Gay's career in the U.S. Army ended in 1955 as the Commanding General, Anti-aircraft and Guided Missile Center, Fort Bliss, Texas.   Following retirement, Gay became superintendent of the New Mexico Military Institute. He died in El Paso, Texas, and was interred at the Fort Bliss National Cemetery. ___________________________________________________________   So maybe there was a specific regulation for the general officer uniforms assigned to "military institute"?   *Note: I am not telling it is his visor but is clearly made in same way THANKS in advance to anyone can give an help on this

Nice items, but the 45th did not see the most combat, the 32nd did with 654 days of combat, the most of any army unit in the war. Still, the 45th was a hard fought unit in some major engagements.     Scott

Thanks for the link, the shell of the link to match the top photo with the big P on the box

never seen it before, but nice find!

here are some of my newest items, sorry if there's bad photos.   first is a lot of WWII and 1 set of post-war uniforms belonging to Brigadier General Robert Clarke Dunnington, assistant commander of the 45th infantry division in WWII. side note but you might know the 45th infantry division because it became slightly famous after being the division which saw the most action in WWII. so far the only knowledge i was able to get about him have been from "the Oaklahoman", and any additional information would be greatly appreciated.                   next up is a survey meter from the 1960s, and hopefully i can use it in some sort of atomic age display in the future.     next is something I have been lazily looking for for a while, a WWII Manhattan project patch with its original envelope.     and last but not least is 2 Vietnam war grenades: an M18 red smoke and an M67 fragmentation.