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    • Adam684
      @aznation & @US82Bravo thank you both for the information and I really appreciate the responses!   I should have been clearer in what exactly I was missing. I knew Albert was with H/3/11, but what I'm really trying to find out (and forgive my relative ignorance on the subject; I've learned a lot over the past year and a half, though I don't have a military background) is which infantry unit he would have been assigned to or embedded with as a forward observer. That would have been some company within the 1st, 5th, or 7th Marines and based on my research, my best guess is the 7th Marines, since 3/11 was intended to fire in support of the 7th. That appears to be both the 11th's modern mission and, from what I can tell, its role at the time as well (see the clip and link below). I know unit designations change over time, so I could be wrong, but that's my working assumption. So what I'd really love to determine is which specific unit or battalion of the 7th Marines (presumably) Albert may have been attached to... Part of my motivation is that I may have the opportunity to visit Peleliu next year, and my thinking was if I could identify his unit, I might be able to walk find the exact ground he was on. Either way, it would be quite an experience!   Also, I may look into the NARA report if you think this information might be available? Thank you for the tip and contact!   Source: https://www.usmcu.edu/Portals/218/Hough_The%20Assault%20on%20Peleliu.pdf   Clip from Page 111
    • historylives
      i hear that LINSEED OIL is good for wood stocks-- true or false?? if true boiled or just linseed and how do you apply it?? thank you
    • Husker
      This one sort of fell into my lap…came with the trousers, belt and campaign hat (presumably all from the same veteran). Tunic is missing the collar disks, unfortunately. As I already have an infantry patched 81st Division tunic with 321st Infantry disks, I figured this one would make a nice companion to it. I’ll be needing 316, 317 or 318th Artillery disks to make it more correct. 
    • WARRIOR515
      268TH C.A.,            MAYBE YOU ARE CONFUSED, I DON'T HAVE ANY DOG TAGS TO SELL. SORRY IF I CAUSED CONFUSION.
    • zzyzzogeton
      That one is an xW66, only made in 1941.  The wood is cocobolo, which is the wood used on the W31.   The wood portion of the xW66 would be short for the W31 due to the wide spacers at each end of the wood in the handle.
    • patches
      An interesting one, 60s  we imagine, a Unit type or a Section/Department within a Unit of the type we've seen before on worn on Air Force shirts????   Would anyone know???
    • patches
      At least three we see with British/Canadian Nets being worn stateside at Camp San Luis Obispo California at 29 March 1944 during maneuvers with the 81st Infantry Division's 323rd Infantry, one wears some kind of field made net, maybe a from a vehicle net. Background on this is medics to include the unit doctor are working on man who ruptured his spleen, perhaps fell or hit by something, maybe even vehicle related.     This is the second sighting of these nets being worn within the 81st Infantry Division, so maybe some of these were taken along when they shipped out to the Pacific, see Post #28  in this topic.
    • Capt.Case
      Thanks for showing that to me. It certainly looks like a candidate. 
    • kiaiokalewa
      And these too!!!
    • kiaiokalewa
      Going through a few boxes and these popped up.
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