thank you for the info 👍

Work on the jeep continues as usual, but at the moment is at a phase where there is not much visible progress. I am now busy with cleaning and stripping the interior of the body. A few previously overlooked small holes were welded, and with all those edges, profiles and other small nooks & crannies stripping it back to bare metal is quite a time-consuming- and dirty job...       All the bare metal is now in a coat of primer, but it will be a few weeks more work to finish this.    

I read the Book Bridge at Remagen. It was nice to find a Silver Star releative listed in the back of the book! Nice finds! 

It was one of my favorites! We all have those regrets however.

Hello Everyone,       I just picked up this well worn UDT 11 shirt at a local flea market late yesterday, so I thought I would share it. It’s my first UDT item so I was an excited to get it. I hope to try to find the individual named on the shirt when I have some down time to research it later this week. I hope everyone enjoys the photos.  Vic

Hi thorin6, the guard is marked England and a (partial “B” ?) with 2. The sheath I couldn’t see any markings.   

Name John B Or Johan B Johnsson Or Jonsson Record Type Military Service Birth Date 21 Aug 1872 Military Date 4 Oct 1900 Residence Place Halsingborg, Sweden Death Date 12 Aug 1923

Looks to be WWII era Marine enlisted collar devices and hat device.  The zinc roller nut was common during wartime.   Manufacturer probably unknown.

Kind of looks like this but the three stars are yellow instead of white and 6 points instead of 5 points.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryon-Wilson_baronets    

I believe this is their post war patch due to the similarity in design and the four digit number of 1421 without a hyphen between the 14 and 21.  What history you can find online is not complete but at the end of the war the designation was changed to NIRUW with a hyphenated number which was short lived.  As all active duty units were now reserve units their designation was changed to MIUWU with a three digit number.  Sometime after this the three digit number was changed to a four digit number which is when this patch was produced and worn.  You can find the three digit number list showing where each reserve unit was located but there is nothing that I could find about the change to four digits which is also now obsolete as I have not been able to keep up with their name and designation changes.