In my 30 years service I met very few scumbags and degenerates. 

What a nice group, I especially like her out of order ribbon bars and purse.   Does anything have her name in it?   I wonder what her connection to the marines was?

. 06 June 2026   I don't have time to sort through all the images I took to edit and sort the best to post,  so basically this is as they were taken.   A French tradition of ringing church bells at 19.44 hours occurred at the Longest Yarn building on the evening of 06 June 2026.  Technically it is no-longer a church as it has been deconsecrated for religious services and handed over by the council as a home for the Longest Yarn.   Around a hundred soldiers from French, German and American forces attended the commemoration service when speeches were made and bouquets of flowers laid at the door.        Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 08 June  2O26.   ..

Interesting story, please forgive me but I don’t understand how it pertains to my find? 

These two officer cap badges are currently listed on eBay by the same seller. My knowledge on left facing cap badges is fairly limited to what I've read on the forum. The first is the mid-size badge with dimensions listed a 2" tall by 2 1/4 " and the is unmarked. The second is a full size left facing BB&B marked badge. 

It might be worth more to a US-based collector who wants an original, unadulterated CF-issued M1.

One reason I’ve spent so much time researching Lt. Lloyd J. Andrews Jr. is that I think stories like his deserve to be remembered.   What strikes me about Andrews isn’t that he was a famous ace or a household name. He wasn’t.   What makes the story compelling is that he was one of thousands of young pilots who did dangerous work, flew dozens of missions, and never came home. Most people have never heard of him, despite the fact that he flew 73 combat missions, earned the Distinguished Flying Cross, served with the 367th Fighter Group—the famed “Dynamite Gang”—and was killed in a documented fighter engagement over Germany on October 20, 1944.   Before researching this archive, I knew little about Andrews. What I discovered was a remarkable amount of surviving history: photographs, military records, a full MACR, German crash and burial reports, family correspondence, War Department communications, and references in the published history of the 367th Fighter Group.   Most WWII pilots who never returned are known today only by a name engraved on a memorial or listed on a casualty roster. Researching Andrews has reminded me that behind every one of those names was a real person with a family, friends, hopes for the future, and a story worth preserving.   And please don’t misconstrue my efforts to tell the story of a largely forgotten combat pilot as a sales pitch. Long before I knew anything about Lt. Andrews, he had already flown his missions, earned his decorations, and made the ultimate sacrifice. My interest is in understanding and preserving the history of a young man whose service deserves to be remembered.   Whether or not any new information about Andrews turns up, I’m glad that his service with the 367th Fighter Group—the “Dynamite Gang”—is being discussed again more than eighty years later.

This patch is currently listed on eBay. Thoughts on if it is really World War 2?    

That particular helmet was issued to the Canadian Forces. BDF = Base Defense Force. The names and partial service numbers are CF. It is typical to find early shells mixed with later liners and parts in Canadian service. That set would sell for about 150 to 200 Cdn dollars in my neck of the woods.

Very nice. I moved to the Gettysburg area a few years ago and driving through the battlefield almost daily still gives me a bit of a thrill.