If you have flyers or information on any other shows in your area please send to me and I'll post them to the ASMIC Website. www.asmic.org/events-shows

And their families, I always wonder how they handle such an event.    

. Hi Bob,    Pleased to see you brought this to everyones attention again,  As I stated sometime ago it's oustanding and preservation as well, these would look good in a museum display alongside life-boats and survival displays.   kind regards lewis. 

Based on what you paid for these patches and being a new patch collector, it wouldn’t be advisable to blindly purchase any additional patches from this dealer. 

Capt John D. Bartlett T-AH 19 mercy ship buckle on Ebay this morning @ $35 buy-it-now.

. Now For Something Different,  Then & Now Utah Beach 1944 - 2026   Well giving a break from Jeep stuff with this post.  Shots of Utah Beach 1944 and 2026.  As can be seen the re-utilised railway beams in place in 1944 are still to be seen in 2026, note behind the wooden beams are the abandoned concrete posts for a triangular German Beach obstacle.   Also seen similar square objects of abandoned unidentified pieces are evident in the 1944 and 2026 photos. ( plus in 2026 shattered pieces of the plastic cages that mussels are grown in along the sands of Utah Beach )         Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 31 March  2O26.   …  

Tooth washers for better grounding are mainly part of the late ( second pattern ) suppression kit. My 1942 GPW does not have any or hardly any compared to the later models. I suppose this would be the same for an early MB which had no or very few tooth washers...

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. Hi earlymb,   here is a photograph showing the lamp illustration and bracket from the GTB manuals I own,  note above the illustration that most parts are marked as GPW part numbers however the bracket is marked as a GTB part number, this could be because of the pre-drilled holes in the side rails of the bracket which are unnecessary for a Jeep mounting       Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 31 March  2O26.   …

. Hi earlymb.   For the non-Jeepers reading this, The blackout light unit only allows light out of the small aperture below the hooded shield situated above it, the aperture creates a low flat beam supposedly invisible to aircraft above it, used only in night time convoy situations ( having tried it, it's almost impossible to see anything ahead, if used in a convoy it would illuminate the vehicle ahead ) .  Behind the metal shield in front of the lamp, the lens only has lines in the glass or prisms on the top third of the lens,  thereby intensifying the light passing through the aperture , the lower two thirds of the lens is plain glass as this part is covered by the front shield.  p.s. Guide marked lights are / were  generally the easiest to find, followed by Ford and the unmarked ones the most difficult.    So for me recognising the broken glass found on the beach was easy to recognise, as with quizzes once you know the answer the question is easy !!!         Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 31 March  2O26.   …