hello all,   going decidedly slow thru my latest, and last, project of an AAF fighter pilot   -    this time, early-mid war. First months of 1943 are the timeframe I'd quite like setting the guy into, after four US aviators (plus one from the RAF, set in India/Burma) all of them staying within the last 16 months of war. I'd like very much putting on it a very nice and complete A-10 (Revised) mask, just do not find any more infos indicating with a decent degree of accuracy when the variant could have started seeing service in units overseas. Accompanying booklet is marked with T.O. 03-50B-1 and dated February 5th, 1943, yet could that be just the ultimate standardization   -    while the mask itself possibly was already used somewhere on overseas fronts?   Thanx in advance for any tips!  Franco.  P.S.,  the mfg. date 4-1943 would not to be an issue to me at all, should it come out that the A-10 (R) variant had seen actual service prior that precise date.        

7th Div continues to grow like a virus.

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Welcome aboard, I hope you will enjoy your time with us   Tony

A Really cool off center Military District of Washington Patch

An Uncut strip of 6 Private Chevrons. Notice how 2 are a more darker yellow almost orange

Great photos and yes this is a Type 3 per Mark Bando's research.   

I've been looking around on the forum for a while but just now decided to make an account, but anyways here in the recent months I've been collecting all sorts of error and uncut patches and wanted to post them in the thread I've looked at a few times on here because not much action goes on in that one. Here's one of my favorites

I know nothing about ceramics but I have one of the beer can insignias in my collection as it was worn by certain USN Officers who were attached to or working as advisors with a particular part of the NAG.     

There's not a lot to say about this knife.  It's a Stevenson knife, but it is clearly influenced by or even made by Robeson. Frank Trzaska confirms that it is likely a military knife. Maybe a prototype.  They are pretty hard to find. The second pic shows a Robeson pocket knife. Marv