. Hi mikie,   Well you have my mouth watering, those glazed doughnuts are one of my favourites . . . . . . and a photo showing the tradition of handing out doughnuts during WWII, and a re-enactment at the Thruxton show in 1984   Over here the larger doughnuts in the supermarkets are more like a bread mixture inside and are terrible,  however the small mini ones that I showed previously really do have a soft squidgy doughnut taste to them and are delicious.   Just getting the bicycle out now,  to offset looking at the doughnuts you posted.         Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, May 19  2O25.    ….  

Here further details of the hat

Hello, Is there anyway this Ike jacket can be identified due to the awards. Unfortunately it’s not named. Air Gunner serving with the Troop Carrier. Probably in England. Served in Europe with two battle stars Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross Awarded the Air Medal 4 x    A log shot just thought I’d ask Many thanks     

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