Nice! And nice helm station too. I’ve got the remains of an engine room EOT.  Don’t know what it came off of. 

A few new 1/4's . The fellow with unbuttoned frock, neckerchief and 51 belt appears fed up. Co. H brass letter on fatigue coat of the pair is an interesting touch.

Simply a wartime variation. Here's one bottom right from my collection

Lewis,             It's just a variant, probably had a few companies making them. There are a few other variants also.   Jason

Years ago, as a newbie collector with only about four wings clutched in my grubby, sweaty paws, I bought Duncan Campbell's book (doubling my reference set of wings books) and read it from cover to cover.  At one point in his introduction to WWI pilot badges, he states, "One to two new patterns heretofore unseen by collectors seem to crop up every year."  I cant understate what an electrifying sentence this was to someone who was only looking to add a gunner wing to his growing collection of 1 pilot wing (unmarked),1 Luxenberg bombardier wing (the crown jewel in the shoe box that held my treasures.), a 1960's vintage  22M/NS Meyer marked aircrew wing, and a 2-inch WWII H&H USN aviator wing.  Now, I could dream about finding a WWI wing... and I sure did! Despite being told by a couple of "dealers" that I would have to be lucky AND rich to find a WWI pilot wing nowadays (ca 1992)... But if the great DC could say there were some still around.... then why couldn't I be that heretofore collector!  I could even talk to him about that (and I did). And he urged me to be patient, and like a blind squirrel, I would eventually find my magic acorn!  LOL   Nowadays (ca2025), I would say that the scholarship on WWI wings is almost as good as it could reasonably expect to be--short of having a time machine and going back to 1918 and checking things out first hand.  Chris Norman, for example, has done some unbelievable research and added a great deal of insight.  Bob Schwartz has one of the greatest websites for WWI wings around. Cliff is still with us, one of the old guard who was already an expert back during the "wild west" time of wing collecting. Finally, this forum never ceases to amaze me with its detail and depth of knowledge.  Still, every now and then, something comes up that I have never seen before, and I would like to share it with my Wing Ding friends.       This wing belonged to 2nd LT Raymond Vance Allison.  He enlisted into the Army as a rather older man (31 years old) who appears to have been an engineer in his prewar days. He was born and educated in North Carolina, and during most of the war, he attended the School of Military Aeronautics in Texas. After graduation, he joined the Cadet Aviation Corps.  It looks like he didn't get his wings until after WWI had ended and was commissioned as a 2nd Lt then discharged almost immediately after that.  He never went overseas.     In    After the war, he continued to work as an engineer, but was killed in a shooting with a police officer in 1926 or so, over a debt owed to the local YMCA for about 50$.   As for the wing, it is a very nice, heavy, and oversized wing. I suspect it was made for him by a local jeweler (either in Texas or near Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where he was stationed in 1919. I also suspect it was made around when the USAC adopted the Adam Design wing.   It is die struck, and some small detailing to the back was done using a ball-peen hammer, giving it a subtle stippling effect.  The pin is heavy and the catch is a "barrel style" drop-in version, although a bit finer than what you typically see.     The fine detail is probably done by hand and is spectacular.   Here is a montage of some more "common" one piece silver WWI pilot wings. YOu can see this new one is much larger than the rest.         Frankly, this is the only one I have ever seen like this.  I hate to say "one of a kind", but I do suspect that this is probably as close to a one-off'er as you will see.     Still no idea who made it, but maybe that information will come to light one day.   I hope you all enjoy this thread.    

Maybe: Colonel Karl Christopher “Joe” Greenwald (1888 - 1986)? A bit of a long shot and no mention of Middle East/N. Africa here: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Greenwald#cite_note-Assembly-2

SKIPH, Thanks again for sharing your expertise and familiarity with the M3 Fighting Knife.   VNAMVET70

I forgot to add, another difference could be the tang. If you can, take off the grips and see if yours has a slotted tang. All Vietnam era Milpar M7s I have seen have this slotted tang.   As to your second question regarding the Colt 62316 bayonets dual marked W-Germany/Germany and Hartford, I have seen no proof that they were used in the Vietnam conflict. From everything I know, those were produced primarily for commercial sales and possibly under contract for Colt to be sold to some foreign countries with Colt's rifles. They are nice quality but would not be accepted under US specs because the crossguard is spot welded on. Still cool pieces to have as part of a collection if you like M7s, in my opinion!

chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/AAFHS/AAFHS-108.2.pdf has: John D. Craig was Head of 9th C.C.U. https://www.armyaircorps-376bg.com/craig_john_d.html  https://clarencesimonsen745590793.wordpress.com/2020/05/28/the-vulgar-virgin/   

. A tale of two shows today . . . .    An English friend and I live about two hours drive apart, we both went to two separate cars shows in our on vicinities, the I went to didn't have any vehicle parts sellers, my friends show had tables of various auto jumble and he found this hand operated US Army Chemical Warfare Siren.    I will post various photos of vehicles tomorrow from the show I went to, it's late now ten minutes to midnight, I had an 04h30 start this morning so it's off to bed now.       Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, June 29  2O25.    ….