I have kind of followed to story of Lady be Good since I watched "Lone Survivor" on CBS when I was a kid. When first found by the British in the late 1950's, she was in pretty good shape, in-fact all of the guns were in place as well as all of the gear, there was some structural damage from the crash.  I remember the published pictures of the crew's clothing lying out in the desert, like it had just happened. Even included some of their paper items blowing around. 

Post a pic, it sounds like it could be identified pretty easily.

Okay, I’ll use my AN6550 then 👍

I have been looking at the old photos and those 1990/91 photos. It looks to me she was in bad shape to start with. The nose landing gear is under the flight deck. It starting to look like that was ripped away during impact.

A picture is worth a thousand words

At the PX in Kandahar you could buy everything from a Kabar, SOG brand knives to Gerber knives. At the Unit level the 10th Mtn Division were issued folding Gerber knives. The folding Gerber Rex-Applegate's fighting knives were popular, I brought back two (one I found in the road on the way to the Airfield bazaar in 2003-04). The Leatherman's were probably the most use-full. I knew one SFC that would order the Randall knives during his deployments enjoying the expedited work order that Randall offered for active duty deploying soldiers. He would carry them for a couple missions and take photo's of himself in Country with them in his full battle rattle and then sell them on ebay for premium. To each there own. I carried a nice stag handled L.F.&C. hunting knife however I was afraid to lose it, so I stuck with a cheap Chinese made Winchester brand hunting knife that I purchased at the PX and taped up the handle and secured it to the front of my LBE. Worked great for opening MRE's and cutting cheese and sausage from my care packages. I think I threw it at a rat once in my tent (missed). The rats were bad at Kandahar. 

I have two knives that were made or carried during OIF or OEF; the first is an SOG brand knife that came back with a Marine to Camp Lejune, and sold at the Raleigh Flea Market years ago.  The second is a knife that was made specifically for a unit in Iraq for private-purchase.  Again purchased at the Raleigh Flea market still in its original box, it was an overrun of the production after the knives were sold to unit individuals. So what else is out there?  What other knives were carried by our Soldiers and Marines?  My son went to both Afghanistan and Iraq, and carried my old Desert Storm Gerber Mark II.  Was there a favorite knife, or did the Soldiers and Marines depend upon their M9s and OKC3Ss?   

The second knife was this modern John Ek knife, pictured next with its WW2 predecessor.  This one, I believe, is an early 1980s version, shown with its original sheath, and also with a leather Savage sheath made specifically for this blade.  

Two of my latest purchases started me thinking that I haven’t seen much about the use of Private-purchase knives in the Afghanistan or Iraq theater of operations.  We seem to spend a lot of time on WW2 purchases, like John Ek knives, Knife Crafters, San Antonio Iron Works, and others, followed by Vietnam, like Buck knives, but I don’t recall any recent comments or pictures of blades used during OIF (Operation Iraqi Freedom) or OEF (Operation Enduring Freedom). The first purchase that got my curiosity was this Buck 650, or the Nighthawk.  First introduced in 1993, this one was made in 1994 (Buck started dating their knives in 1984, I believe, with symbols after the number).  It’s a very well-made knife, and fits the requirements for a CUK (Combat Utility Knife).  Too late for Desert Storm, it certainly would have made a great knife for combat carry.  Pictured here with it’s Vietnam era predecessors the Buck 119 and 120.