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Hink441,   Good question. I’ll have to look. 

https://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/181279-post-your-oss-groups/page/5/     I saw this great thread and thought this item was relevant..  it's tri-edge, apparently steel, and if not for the crossbow of WWII, any ideas? Maybe a poacher?  thanks!

Welcome to the forum.   Not sure if you have these documents or not..   There are some others but I have to run to a meeting   Leigh 

I believe your ammo pouch is for a German 71/84. Possibly an 88. For that matter it could be a foreign copy of the 71/84 ammo pouch. The 7th Cav mark is added later, Looks like a nice pouch of commercial 45-70

My father was a fighter pilot in VF-42 off Yorktown from June 1941 thru the end of May 1942, including early raids and at Coral Sea,  When Yorktown returned to Pearl Harbor he was the senior, at the exalted rank of LTJG, of the VF-42 pilots who were TAD to VF-3 for Yorktown's Midway deployment.  VF-42 pilots made up a majority of the VF-3 pilots, generally, and specifically those who saw combat.  He rarely "told stories."  Most of what he was doing of any importance can be found in some well written and researched tomes, such as those by John Lundstrom.  When presented with tales from other sources he would either say "That's true," "That's not true," or "That's an out an out lie."  Most  of the Midway related crap presented in Astor's "Wings of Gold" fall into that last category.  So, not a raconteur or story teller, (hell's bells I never knew he was an ace until sometime when I was in high school in the late 1960's), but if you asked the right question, you'd get an answer.   As time went on, he was often the recipient of written enquiries from various folks on various subject on Naval Aviation in the Pacific.  Most of these he would carefully answer.  The good part was he always wrote a rough draft of any response to same before a final version went out.  I have most of those roughs in my files along with 99% of the letters sent home right up to the end of the war when he was Jimmie Thach's assistant in the TF-38 ops shop.  

Could very well be PI made. PI patches done in the 60s were pretty well made, unlike a lot of the mid-70s on stuff. The lettering is somewhat unique though on this one.   Randy

Waiting for my granddaughter to come over to take some pics for me. Forgot to mention the blade is magnetic.

Yup

I know you cried a little , I would have. Very happy for you