Good lord what a beautiful carving on that. Lot's of good research potential there.

Mel Brooks during WW2, he was in the 1104th Combat Engineer Battalion in 1944 and saw action in the Ardennes.           The jeep appears to be a Ford GPW, with a 1/2 ton Dodge Command Car in the background 😇    

For anyone who didn't see it here is a better picture that I saved. 

Just saw this patch in a lot offered on the 'bay. Would've been cool to have that type of club at my school when I went through ROTC.   

Growing up in the 1960s-70s, you couldn’t swing a cat (though not recommended to try) without hitting a WWII veteran. Dad, uncles, friends’ dads and uncles, neighbors, so many were WWII veterans or war workers. Sad to know there are so few left. I wish I could have heard their stories but most were reluctant at best to talk much about the war. it’s interesting but not surprising that many celebrities were veterans.   

Sorry for any confusion, while researching this type of engraving that is just what I saw other people calling this style.

Small edit, had DC on my mind when I wrote this, Kaufman's is in NYC. Oldest store in the city.   Also forgot to include the snippet from the article mentioning him:   "Around 7 o’clock that morning an Army radio technician on Wake picked up a radio alert from Hawaii: ‘Hickam Field has been attacked by Japanese dive bombers. This is the real thing.’ Devereux shouted for his bugler, Alvin J. Waronker, and soon the clear notes of ‘General Quarters’ sounded across the atoll.   At 8:50 the Marines raised the American flag on its staff, something Marines did every morning all over the world, and Waronker began to sound ‘To the Colors.’ In the past he had had trouble with the bugle call, never getting it quite right, but this time he did not miss a note, and for several minutes all activity stopped as each man stood at attention and saluted the flag. Devereux recalled: ‘The flag went up, and every note was proud and clear. It made a man’s throat tighten just to hear it.’ Not long after the flag raising, 36 Japanese Mitsubishi G3M2 Nell bombers crossed Wake in three V-formations. Soon their fragmentation bombs, accompanied by a steady drumming of machine-gun fire, tore the island to pieces. For Wake’s defenders, the war had begun"

Nice engraving.

Yeah, I was scratching my head about that too 🤔.  mikie

Incredible!  Talk about a holy grail item