Hi all,   Received this in the mail recently from a vintage clothes shop in Thailand. For those of you don’t know, I am vehemently against people using original uniforms (regardless of era) as a fashion statement.    Anyway, it is far from the greatest condition, but it has a neat feature I have never seen in person. On the left breast there are little loops of thread sewn on for (what I assume to be) a ribbon bar. I occasionally see period pictures of men wearing ribbons and badges on field jackets, so its neat to have in hand. It reminds me very much of badge loops on German uniforms from WWII.   

. First Normandy Trip 1973.   1973 was my first Jeeping trip to Normandy, there was far less to see than there is today, I brought my Jeep and a passenger along and did quite some mileage, even driving up to Bastogne and back.   Visiting the museum at Utah beach back in 1973 they were selling original militaria German, American, British etc.  and no touristy trinkets, I bought this British made patch can't recall now what I paid but being British made on felt then it turned out to be a decent buy .       Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, June 15  2O25.    ….

The gunner is named and someone on the Militaria forum Facebook page was able to give me his full name and serial number, so its a start for research

There were actually two military vehicles at the show. This was far and away my favorite!  Strange though, P-51 fighters look much larger in period photographs. 

I was just informed that author Michael F. Tucker has passed away. He was a pioneer in writing many reference books to include Shoulder Patches in Vietnam, the Combat Infantryman's Badge, US Hat Badges, and several Third Reich insignia books.   He will be greatly missed.   Leigh 

When I went to my favorite hole-in-the-wall place for lunch, I spotted a small automobile show across the street. The show itself was small, it wasn’t a show for small cars. There was only one military vehicle, a 1942 Dodge truck. Unfortunately the photo I took of the info card came out blurry and unreadable.  I just took some random pics. Enjoy! 

its all working Now, apparently a temporary issue Thanks  

i recently acquired this same knife, but the ricasso is stamped kinfolks.  i'd say with the military stamp you have a rare one

When I was in (2010s)  this badge was so common to see. They would throw events in the states and even me being in a regular engineer unit had the opportunity to earn it. 

Thanks...the half body on the right is aluminum and the half body on left is some type of metal but not original.  All other parts, fuze's, M41 cap. half spoons  and shrapnel are original WWII vintage.  Yes I did make this